3 days of diving in Kaatiala open pit mine

Today we got started pretty early, cleaned the cabin and packed our gear in the cars. Yesterday yours truly was filling the air bottles and managed to overfill a couple. Heard jokes about this all day ;)

We dove to the diving bell at 25m and made a trip to the "tourist cave" on the first dive and to the airplane on the second. I took the opportunity to touch bottom on one dive and measured 29,7m on the bottom.

Everyone were happy with the dives, we'd had nice weather for a change so the cold didn't bother us and many of us racked up some of our first proper "deep" dives in Finnish waters.

Lunch was steamed hotdogs and then I decided to start heading south to civilization. The drive is 330km so better get started reasonably early if you want to have some time with the family in the evening :)

Deep diving in the Kaatiala open pit mine

We were pleasantly surprised with nice weather today. We've had sun, rain and wind :)

On today's fourth dive we started off in the deep end of the mine and decended directly to the old diving bell at 25m. After a brief visit and some funny talk inside we moved to the "airplane" and after some photos we started our ascent. 3 minute safety stop at the 5m buoy and then out of the water.

Great dives today, hope we have this good visibility (8+ m) next time..