Finally had a good 60 foot dive day after three rough weeks of bad vis

Was working a bridge inspection job down in Charleston last Thursday and the water cleared up just enough to see my hand in front of my face. Had been dealing with mud and silt for weeks where I could barely find the pilings. Got a solid 4 hours of bottom time in before the tide shifted. Anyone else find that good vis makes the whole job feel 10 times easier?

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amymason9d ago

The way a good day of work follows a spell of bad conditions always reminds me how much we take the simple stuff for granted. It is like when you finally get a clear stretch of road after driving through fog for an hour. Everything just flows better and you forget how frustrated you were ten minutes ago.

amyr579d ago

That's exactly it. You spend so much time fighting bad conditions that when things finally line up, you almost don't know what to do with yourself. @amymason mentioned that fog analogy and it hit home-its like the whole world just opens up and you can breathe again. But here's what gets me: do you find that the good days make you second-guess the bad ones at all? Like, after a clear run, you start wondering if you were just being dramatic about the visibility, or if it really was that awful? I think the gap between the mud and the clear water is what makes the good days feel so unreal, not just the visibility itself.