Diving in Cala Llobeta (Tarragona)

12.08.2010 – Cala Llobeta (Tarragona)

The day after the snorkeling in Cala Llobeta, we've decided to go there to dive. We went alone, just my buddy and me, no divemaster on this dive. It was the first day we dive in that place so we were ready to being lost during the dive. We are not very experienced divers so even we have a compass and my buddy has a very good orientation sense we were sure we will be lost.

We followed the advices, and we fixed a 120º direction. We should find an arch, a small arch big enough to allow the pass of a diver. We did not find the arch at the go but we found it at the return, and we were able to took a very nice picture of some fishes inside the arch, it looks like an aquarium.

We also were able to take a picture of one of the ugliest fishes in our area :)

Watch case

I'm starting to order my watches, after long time having the watches over the table, on a wood boxes or in the drawer I'm placing the watches on a real box.
This is not the final layout, I need to place more watches that are under repair and some of the watches that are on the box will be sold, but it look nice... at least I like it :)

Casio steel case watches

 I don't forget the watches, but after 2 weeks on vacation diving nearly every day I've postponed most of my watch jobs :)
Here you are the last watch arrived at home, a real vintage Casio. Steel case, screw down base, mineral glass. Not chrome plated plastic, base with screws and plastic glass like the modern-vintage watches.
The watch is in quite good condition, it is a quite old watch, 100% made in japan.

Snorkelling in Cala Llobeta (Tarragona)

11.08.2010 – Cala Llobeta (Tarragona) - Snorkel

After some diving days, we've decided to go snorkeling to a new beach. Just a tour to know the beach and be able to go there to dive.

The day was good, not so much people there, few boats, no jetskis :), a good day for snorkeling.

It was a not stressing day, so after a complete hour of snorkeling the deepest dive was 5.8m and I was a total of 11 minutes and a half under the water. At least this is what my Casio SNK-200 said.

 Time enough to get a nice picture of an octopus protecting his cave.

 The picture of the snorkeling area is nice, very close to the harbor so the use of a signal buoy is more than recommended.

Diving in Calafat (Tarragona)

05.08.2010 – Cala Calafat (Tarragona)

This was an important day for me, the day after the steel bottle fall over my finger, depending on this dive there will be the end of the dive season or not...

We went to a small beach at the south of Tarragona. The beach is called Cala Calafat. The most difficult point on this dive was the steps we need do descend to arrive to the sand and the same number of steps we should ascend after the dive. Usually it ir not so difficult, just a little bit fatigating, but that day, due to my finger it was a quite hard job.

Hopefully the dive was good, 67 minutes of dive, max. depth of 12.7m and a temperature around 22ºC (still too cold).

Easy dive, not bad visibility, good divers... an important day for me. It was clear that won't be the last dive of the summer :)

And a nice pic of the dive preparation...

Diving accident in Tarragona

04.08.2010 – Escullera Port Tarragona

A dive I will not forget. The plan was to go to the end of Tarragona's Harbor, a place with a depth of around 30m.

The day started bad a 12 liter steel bottle fall over my foot, over my finger! Ahhhhhh! Yes! It was a painful experience, not a good beginning for a dive day. My finger became blue in seconds but some minutes after the pain was not so important to abort the dive, it seemed the finger was not broken so we went to dive.

The visibility was not so good, as usually on this area, and there was an important drift. Two bad friends for a paceful dive.

We started to go down without any problem but at the middle of the descent my buddy and me loose all the other divers! As already said, bad visibility and an important drift were the root cause of the lost. We tried to find the other people, the visibility was not so bad at 25m but we were not able to find the other people. Even we were able to continue the dive we decided to abort it and 15 minutes was the total dive time of such unforgettable day.

Hopefully the finger was not broken (at leas I think is not broken) so it was not the last dive of the summer :)

The picture is my finger the day after the accident, a little bit better than the previous day. Not a nice picture :( I post it in the smallest size...

Diving in Tarragona harbor

02.08.2010 – Escullera Port Esportiu (Tarragona)

The plan was to dive in Cap Salou, near Tarragona, but the visibility was not so good so we change our plans an go to dive to the Marina Harbour.

It was a long and easy dive. The max. Depth was 9.6m and we were 88 minutes under the water.

The visibility was not so good, but enough to see a lot of small fishes.

The temperature arrived to 22ºC quite cold to be beginning of August in Tarragona. This year the water is quite cold in this area, at least colder than other years.

The below picture show some nice blue small Dansel fishes (Castañuelas in Spanish) 

Vacation!

The vacation is over, so time to post some things after 15 days without Internet connection.
I will post explanations and pictures of some of the dives we did last 2 weeks in Tarragona. It is not the nicest place to dive, but a good place to make looong dives at low depths.