mooring service

[woodsy]

Hot day. Perfect for a dive to service my mooring.
While carting all my gear from under the house, I knocked a heavy metal g clamp. Fell a metre onto my melon.
So.....spent the day in front of the fan with an icepack on the gash to stem the bleeding & swelling.
Won't dive with an open wound in the mud of Pittwater , so the yacht remains on the beach till.....

[Ianb]

The yacht remains on the beach...?? Hope she is not aground. Anyway commiserations. I did something similar when i was at Uni in my youth. Working in the civil tank testing lab on my thesis on spear gun dynamics, I stepped into a valve pit with the valve stem sticking up with no handle and gauged a big hole in my leg. Deadline meant I had to keep going. Luckily I had an old fashioned diver's dry suit, so I managed to keep working in the flume tank.

[woodsy]

Ooooh.
O.k Ianb. You win. Your wound sounds worse!
Turns out my gash on the head was all blood ( like most head wounds). I dived the next day but I forgot to take a few bits.
The new stainless swivel I fitted 2 years back, was well worn. The gal. shackle pin connecting it to the chain,(all purchased at the same time), was almost worn through. I am replacing it with larger gal. swivel + larger gal shackles this time.
I thought the pressure gauge on my dive gear was faulty when it was registering low today. So after gearing up , making SURE I had all the tools & bits required tied to a work rope, I lowered it over the side, jumped in & on the bottom began work......to run out of air 1 minute later.
Back up to my tinny, laughing at my own stupidity.
Hopefully can get the tank filled tomorrow to finish the job. In future I will test tank pressure with a spare gauge!
Enough of my idiocy here, so, will share my near spear gun
accident from my youth with you if we get to meet & discuss old diving gear.
Cheers.
Larry

[woodsy]

The yacht is fine on the "sand flat". I drop an anchor fore & aft in the bay where I live so she doesn't swing.