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Post by SeaRat on Jun 3, 2013 21:01:25 GMT -8
In March of 1974, actually between March 17th and March 22nd, I accompanied a group of divers from Oregon State University as an assistant instructor to Midge Cramer, the OSU scuba instructor. We dove in Hanamma Bay, Makapuu Beach, Waikiki Reef, and the North Shore. I took my Nikonos, and shot black and white photos. I am going to try attaching them here. Well, I cannot here, so I'll try using Safari (I'm using Firefox on my old Mac G5 right now). John Attachment DeletedAttachment DeletedAttachment Deleted
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 3, 2013 21:20:40 GMT -8
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 3, 2013 21:25:45 GMT -8
Attachment DeletedI choose black and white film because I wanted to develop these the film, then enlarge them myself in the OSU photo lab. This I did, and recently discovered the negatives again, scanned them and hereby present them in this forum (scratches and all ). John
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 4, 2013 8:29:10 GMT -8
Gosh John, those are really fun--thanks for sharing! What kinda reg is that in the third-image? I'm really liking the BC's...
Jaybird
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 4, 2013 14:27:38 GMT -8
I think that is a White Stage regulator, Jaybird.
The "BCs" are actually simple CO2 inflated vests. We really did not have any BCs at that time.
John
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Post by treculi on Jun 5, 2013 18:30:49 GMT -8
What a great find. ASA 25 did you ever have to push the film when you developed it?
Did you get a chance to photograph Redside Shiners this spring?
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Post by treculi on Jun 7, 2013 8:44:40 GMT -8
John, The subject of CO2 “Mae West, Horse Collar” vests inspired me to look through some Kodachrome slides I took in Grand Cayman Island in 1978. We were still using the CO2 vests in 1978 and I was thinking I had photographs of an incident that happened with a vest after a dive. After leading our group on a wall dive the Divemaster had everyone hold for a five-minute safety stop then sent everyone up to the boat. One of the divers in the group was using an early model Scubapro Automatic Decompression meter and refused to surface until his meter cleared. After several minutes of waiting the meter was still not clearing. The Divemaster became frustrated at the divers refusal to surface and jerked his CO2 cord sending him rocketing to the surface. Once on board the diver pulling his knife in and out of its sheath threatening to cut the Divemaster. There were a few tense minutes until he calmed down enough to put his knife away. It was an unusual event for a tourist dive boat. I could not find the slides I thought I had probably better they disappear anyway. I tried posting two images from the dive site but one of them is hanging up.
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 7, 2013 10:54:26 GMT -8
Holy ca-ca, wow, sounds like a really ugly situation! I'd be pretty PO'ed if someone did that to me, BUT--I think I'd have the good sense to realize it was component-error! That's one of the reasons why I HATE using rented gear: you don't know for sure how the gear you're using is kept up... When my wife and I went to Belize, her BC was malfunctioning, and they refused to believe her, her ears got REALLY EFFED-UP: after three weeks and antibiotics she was back to normal. Our last dive her BC was working good, and mine was FUBAR.
I was thinking that was a Mae West, but I saw it had the USD logo on it, so I thought it might be an early BC.
Jaybird
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Post by treculi on Jun 7, 2013 15:17:38 GMT -8
It was pretty tense. The diver with the meter was not a very nice guy actually he was a real jerk. I think that had a lot to do with the Divemaster pulling the cord, which is no excuse. That was a pretty dangerous thing to pull. Most of CO2 vests were shades of yellow to orange. You can almost tell how deep a diver is by the color shade as the yellow light is absorbed. The attached photo is not very good but it is an example of a yellow vest at depth. The amounts of air in the vest to compensate wet suit compression can also an indication of depth. That was something you really had to watch especially with a thick wet suit on a vertical wall. Loosing buoyancy and dropping like a rock with the regulator out of mouth, blowing as hard as you can into a pencil thin tube and equalizing your ears is a mistake you only make once and never repeat.
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 8, 2013 9:23:36 GMT -8
What a great find. ASA 25 did you ever have to push the film when you developed it? Did you get a chance to photograph Redside Shiners this spring? Actually, I don't really remember whether it was Plus-X or Pan-X that I used. This was Hawaii, and in shallow water so I think it was the ASA 25 film. But it may have been ASA 64. Wait...I can look at the negatives, can't I? Hold on...Yes! It was Plus-X Pan. So I stand corrected, and I had used an ISO 125 film. That actually makes more sense. Well, so much for memory. I actually found the 8x10 inch prints that I made at OSU that year. They were in another album. Here is another photo from that roll, of us getting ready to go to a dive site. Our instructor, Midge Cramer, is the guy on the left in front of the van with its rear doors open. I think I see Janet South and Bruce Higgins there too (now Bruce and Janet Higgins). I read your discussion of the CO2 vest, and what happened with that diver on decompression. I guess there's more than one way to get a guy to the surface. Concerning the red-sided shiners, I was in the water twice last week, and they are there and some have changed to their mating colors. I haven't gotten any more photos yet, as the current is pretty heavy and the camera pretty bulky. I was more interested in getting down there and observing. Water temp on Tuesday was 46 degrees F, and Thursday it was 54 degrees F. So it's getting toward that 60 degree F mark that usually signals the mating time. John
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 8, 2013 13:07:07 GMT -8
Gosh, great photos guys--thought provoking! John, the dive instructor looks really intense--all business: the kinda guy you really want to have with you on a dive.
Jaybird
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 8, 2013 17:28:55 GMT -8
Gosh, great photos guys--thought provoking! John, the dive instructor looks really intense--all business: the kinda guy you really want to have with you on a dive. Jaybird Jaybird, that was a time when instruction was educational, rather than on a business model. Midge was one of the best around, anywhere (and I've been taught by U.S. Navy instructors). Here is a quote from a ScubaBoard discussion I recently participated in concerning out-of-air situations: He was very intense about providing a good diving experience. Many of those divers were on some of their first dives past his course. John
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 9, 2013 9:38:55 GMT -8
I really like those kind of people: yeah, I goof around a lot, but when it comes to things that are important, I'm all business. Both my wife and I have people tell us we're too intense all the time; with that intensity more often than not, comes a wry sense of humor too!
It doesn't surprise me that you said he's the best, even better than the military guys, he was doing it out of passion, a real love of it. I think his having the ability to stop whenever he wanted made it all the more enjoyable, whereas I would think in the military, you have a time limit, and always someone to answer to.
Jaybird
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Post by treculi on Jun 16, 2013 19:05:28 GMT -8
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You got me curious I could not remember what B/W film I was using in the 70’s and had to check my negatives. Turns out it was Tri-x-Pan 400 which sounds about right since I did not have a flash and most of the diving I was doing was not in very clear water. Also explains grainy negatives.
Was there a large snowpack above your Red-sided shiner site? I have noticed there is quite a difference between using a camera in a housing and a Nikonos in a strong current.
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 16, 2013 21:12:11 GMT -8
I have two Nikonos II cameras, but one of them leaked last fall when I was diving with Sid Macken. I was able to salvage the film, but only by submerging it in water after removing it from the camera, and taking it to the photo shop soaking wet. They ( Blue Moon Photography) had to dry the film in their darkroom before developing it. It was an interesting process, but it worked. So right now, I'm not doing much photography, although I hope to get wet tomorrow. I've included three of the photos from that roll last fall in Big Cliff Reservoir on the Santiam River, near Salem, Oregon. Sid and I both enjoyed those two dives a lot. I only took photos on the first dive, and Sid took video of me too (see my avitar right now for one of his topside photos). The reason the photos are slightly different sizes is that some had peripheral water damage that needed to be cropped. By the way, Sid is now the current President of the Historical Diving Society USA. We do have a pretty large snow pack in the Cascades, and it is now melting. My first dive two weeks ago the water temperature was 46 degrees F. The second dive that week the water's temperature had climbed to about 54 degrees F; still full wet suit with gloves time. I hope to dive tomorrow without gloves, and that the water temperature is above 60 degrees F. We'll see... John Attachment DeletedAttachment Deleted
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