A dive with Mr. Murphy

It is no boaster, nor claim it is a spring fired. I can proudly say that I dived with the true Murphy O'Connor.

Of course it is, Murphy has not missed an opportunity to set out his famous "law". Indeed, to be sure that I understand, he give me very busy demonstration.

In addition to Murphy, my diving buddies were Andrea C. and Nick T. The original intention was for a ride in the Oliero caves but the flow that a couple of days earlier had contributed to the end of a my second stage and a hole on the drysuit, has recommended a new route to Castello di Godego.

Nick uses the VeeCam, Andrea download boxes of material and skipping around showing his new Liquivision while Mr. Murphy dedicated his scholarly demonstration giving notice that when they filled the tanks they have forgotten that of argon. Not too bad, I can still use that of Gav, as proof it does not strike me as much.

We enter in the water and it drops in my left foot, obviously I have not tapped all the holes by Oliero. Murphy laughs, but I'm still optimistic. If these are the things that you know to do, I think, you have little arrows to your bow.

We descend and immediately my scooter is as strangely. I work to the variable speed and a bit the DPV moves. I am as fast as a snail in reverse but still going forward. Gust of OK with Andrea and Nick and we descend. Not even 5 minutes later, slowing up to stop, astonished I look the scooter propeller that with the grace of an autumn leaf falls to the bottom. In one hand I have the unusable scooter in the other the propeller, I feel even more stupid than usual. With me as a trailer by Andrea we are rising a few meters to leave my DPV. Another flurry of OK and go back to.

I approach the bottom and I realize that I am losing gas from the mouthpiece. The reaction is instinctive, I open the BOV and switch to OC. Have not ever done! A cascade of water is poured into my mouth. Gas? Not even a molecule. I try to breathe again and my mouth is full of water. I'll be back in a closed circuit and coughing and spittooning, I recovered a little of breath but the reb continues to lose gas at alarming rates. I have enough for a single dive, it is too much, I switch to the secondary and I call the exit after just 30 minutes of diving.

Murphy got what he wanted but I can say with certainty that Murphy O'Connor is an incurable optimist.

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