Rock Lake & Blue Hole - Santa Rosa, NM - January 23-24 2010

I met up with some buddies to do a handful of dives last weekend. I've been contemplating new dives to do in Rock Lake for a while and my primary dive buddy and I had been shooting emails back and forth to come up with a dive plan. With the dive plan set, we met up to do our dives. We ended up modifying our dive plan a bit at the last minute so that we could accommodate another dive buddy. All in all, we only shaved off about 10 minutes of our dive plan, which ended up being a 96 minute run time.

When we got into the water, the air temperature was running about 35 degrees and the winds were blowing slightly out of the west. When we surfaced, the winds had picked up dramatically and were blowing about a constant 40+ mph. We really wanted to get back into the 55 degree water, as it was much warmer then the air temperatures, especially when factoring in the wind.

After our single dive at Rock Lake we packed it up and went to the Blue Hole, where we were much more protected by the wind and we had some pretty good dives playing with scooters, practicing some of our skills, and taking pictures. All in all, it was a good weekend of diving... Not that I've ever had a bad weekend of diving. :)

Here are some of the video's from the weekend. Pictures can be seen here.


Rock Lake - This is a very short video, compared to our run time during the dive. During this dive we decided to turn what we normally do over two dives, into a single dive. We visited the gypsum crystals at 100ft on the east wall and another set of gypsum crystals at 70ft on the southeast wall.



Blue Hole - This is just a fun video of us playing with the x-scooters in Blue Hole. Turns out, that's a good was to keep entertained in the Blue Hole. :)



Valve Drill - This is just me performing a valve drill.