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DonC
climber
CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 27, 2008 - 01:57am PT
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Any of you folks gone SCUBA diving in the lakes on the east side of the Sierra - Mono Lake, Saddleback Lake, Tioga Lake, Crowley, others?
Always wondered if it would be worthwhile to drag my SCUBA gear up sometime.
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Strider
Trad climber
one of god's mountain temples....
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Apr 27, 2008 - 06:38am PT
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I would love to hear a trip report from a SCUBA dive in Mono Lake. The lake has such a high salinity that your buoyancy changes and it is harder to "sink".
Not having done SCUBA before, how would this effect your dive? Probably add more weight to the belt but is it that simple or would this cause other problems?
Dive safe
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rich sims
Trad climber
co
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Apr 27, 2008 - 09:44am PT
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They teach Open water in lakes in Colorado.
I know a couple of guys who dive the lakes. Two things are constant diving at high altitude, less time and Its really cold.
Colorado divers claim more or as many divers as in Florida.
When I moved to Colorado I gave away my tanks because if you can not do it after work or weekends why bother.
Its 7:45 and time to go climb C-ya
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F10 Climber F11 Drinker
Trad climber
e350
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Apr 27, 2008 - 11:38am PT
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A friend of mind does a bit of snorkling in the lakes and gathers quite a booty of lures stuck in the logs and rocks
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Sanjan
Boulder climber
CA
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Apr 27, 2008 - 01:15pm PT
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june lake is pretty famous for scuba (google it) . a guy died in gull lake [next to june lake] last winter when he got lost under the ice and drown
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climbrunride
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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Apr 27, 2008 - 03:10pm PT
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A few years ago I read an article written by a guy who hiked all his gear up to Tulainyo Lake and did its first SCUBA dive. If I remember right, there really wasn't much to see up there.
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SammyLee2
Trad climber
Memphis, TN
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Apr 27, 2008 - 06:21pm PT
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NAUI offers a high altitude certification. I'd suggest it. No decomp times are reduced so that a decomp dive can be necessary even on a single 80CF tank.
I started diving when I was 13, now 53. Wish I'd found climbing at the same time. Got a diver's flag tat on the left shoulder, climber on the right.
20 years of living in West Palm Beach, I got spoiled. Deep wrecks, coral, crystal clear springs, caverns (caves really, in some cases) semi tech dives (DIR) etc were the soup of the day.
Oh, and btw, bouancy is fairly easy to adjust. Even between fresh and salt water, there is a difference of a few pounds, depending on the wetsuit, fat content, etc. And bouancy is KEY to diving, for safety and for the protection of the reef. Be neutral or don't go. Noobs in diving are draging the reef or popping to the top, both very, very bad. On drift dives, I used to love to cross my legs Indian style, flip upside down, and float three feet off the reef.
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Apr 27, 2008 - 06:33pm PT
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Also note on the decompression issues that you have to be careful driving around after the dive. I seem to recall someone in New Mexico who suffered the bends on a diving trip, after the dive, driving over a high altitude pass. The Sierra seem like a likely place for a replay of such a scenario.
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Dr. Rock
Ice climber
Castle Rock
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Apr 28, 2008 - 01:44am PT
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lots of boat batteries, so easy to huff it off the dock...
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