Visibility Woes

A few more dives logged this past weekend. On Saturday, we headed off to Daejin on Korea's East coast. It's pretty small so it's not listed but it's next to Yongdok on map #4:( Map of Yongdok KR) It started to pour as soon as I stepped outside the door. At least it was warm I guess. I got to the place where James (Scuba Green Peace) meets me and he was already there. That was nice. Then we began the 6 hour drive to Daejin.

We arrived and quickly jumped in for a night dive. Vis is hard to judge at night because you can only see as far as your light goes. There were lots of large rocks so you couldn't look too far without seeing one of those anyway. Not a lot to see. An baby octopus and a squid. Lots of colourful kelp. I nice dive (5m) but the current and surge took us down from our entry point so we had to swim around some rocks to get to the stairs.



We had a lot of rain and thunder during the night and when woke up, the wind was from the west. James had promised me 10 meters of visibility in Daejin but it was not to be. We suffered with 1-3 meters all day. The rain and wind had conspired to ruin our vis. Still, we had fun. I logged three more dives on Sunday. Depths of around 16 meters with water temps around 10-11 degrees. I saw the largest octopus I've ever seen in Korean waters. I'd guess it was about 2 meters if you streteched his legs out. He was so big and confindent. He didn't even swim away when we approached. He just sat there and blended his colours into those of the rocks. I watched him for about 5 minutes. If he was smaller, I'm sure my dive buddy would have had him for a meal. At his size, it would have been a bit of a fight.

I took a few pictures but the aren't worth posting. There were so many particles in the water that the light was all messed up and I ended up with a lot of back scatater. Instead, I'll just post a couple videos. They aren't very good but they're better than the photos.

VIDEO: Entry

VIDEO: At Depth