The crew… Demster, Brendan, Geoff, Jim, Eric Gordon and myself Clair had an awesome dive plan…. Jump around the point at Halifax about an hour before the slack tide to get an extra dive in and max our dive time! I had double checked the tide time with the local dive shop, confirmed that it was a nice BIG 1.8m tide so in the scheme of things we had a GOOD plan!
At 12.30 we stumbled into the water (speaking for myself that is…the others we far more graceful!) and excitedly headed under to start the drift, we descended deeper and deeper, hitting the 18m mark and …no drift…got to 20m …no drift, now this is not good because in my mind this could only mean that we got the tides wrong( something only Greg does)and this is the slack tide!! Uh –oh!!! This could mean that at any point the tide could turn giving a nasty swim INTO the current !!! Trying not to appear to be in too much of a hurry I marched everyone along , keeping within the dive plan (except for the ‘no drift’ bit) and tried to wind up the dive without a drama. Also going through my mind was that Sean and Lisa had come all the way up to join us on the slack tide dive and I am cringing thinking I’m going to have to break the bad news.’ “.oops ! sorry guys..missed the tide..you can go home now!”…was I stressing?? Not much??? Anyway the guys unsuspectingly had a great little ‘drift with no drift’ dive’, vis was not too bad at about 5-8m and plenty of critters to spot ! Dem discovered that he is in fact ‘A Nigel’, Nudibranch lover…with his new eyes on he spotted at least 4 Nudi’s, and was rather excited about this! Yawn!
On surfacing I noted that the tide had not turned yet and still seemed slack so chased the guys to gear up again, quick ! Quick !so we could get another dive out of the slack…so like well oiled machines, tanks were changed and back into the water we went with Sean and Lisa in tow this time. As we descended it was as though someone had turned off the lights since our last dive! The vis had dropped down to about 2m (that’s generous!) but still no current so we proceeded as planned and as long as you were close up, everthing was still very pretty, heading back to the exit after 35 minutes I was still confused as there was still no current, or much to speak of…….a mystery I guess, the dive shop swears that the tides were right!
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