Alex van Opstal Survey Dive

I’m planning (weather-permitting) to run a survey dive on the Alex on the weekend of the 3rd & 4th December. Plan is to use the ‘new’ RIB out of Casteltown to shuttle to the dive site.

Dive plan (provisional):

Saturday 3rd

Dive 1

• 0830hrs launch RIB and begin loading kit.
• 0915 hrs all aboard , ropes off.
• 0945hrs – arrive at Alex and deploy shot
• 1010hrs divers in – start of slack – tide running SW 0.4 knots
• 1100hrs divers up – second wave in
• 1150hrs all divers recovered, pull shot and return to casteltown
• 1230hrs lunch at castletown, air fills etc

Dive 2

• 1415hrs load up and ropes off Head out to wreck fo the Binnendjk
• 1435 hrs – arrive a ti site, locate and deploy shot
• 1450 hrs kit up and bein dive, current running 0.45knots NE
• 1535hrs – peak slack 0.23knots ESE
• 1600hrs divers up, recover shot and return to casteltown
• 1640hrs unload boat and recover up slipway.

Sunday 4th

Dive 1

• 0900 launch RIb and load up
• 1000hrs ropes off to head out to Alex site
• 1035hrs arriove alex, deploy shot
• 1100hrs divers in for first dive, current 0.49knots SE
• 1140hrs divers up, second wave down peak slack 0.35knots{jcomments on} N
• 1230 hrs current 0.56knots NE recover shot and return to castletown

Dive 2

• 1400hrs load up and ropes off head out to dives site (TBA)
• eta back at casteltown 1600hrs, recovwer boat , washdown if possible