Projects > Doux de Coly 02
Short Deep Setup
Latest update: March 18, 2004
As a member of the EKPP I had the great opportunity to join the Doux de Coly project this year. My major tasks were to be shallow support, deep support and video lighting.
On the first day Tom Schädler and I made three dives to the shaft and carried four stages and some weights (for use when Reinhard and Michael take off their rebreathers to enter the habitats).
Alex and Hervé lighting for Paolo doing the video. This is the shallow tunnel.
On the second day Dirk Zierlinski and myself made a trip into the deep section, placing two 60m bottles, two 100m bottles and the two exploration reels at 45m. While descending the shaft we met some of the other guys setting spits. After dropping the stages we made a short ride to about 800m, enjoying the near perfect visibility.
The same day I helped Paolo and Herve on two video dives in the shallow section. We made a good job of it and shot about 90min of video sequences.
The next day we decided to do a video dive into the deep secton, Peter diving in place of Hervé, but unfortunately we only got a few minutes of footage as the dive had to be aborted: there were strange noises emanating from Paolo's scooter! Later we found out that it was just the blades making contact with the shroud, and it was fixed the same day.
Tuesday was my last day on the project because i had some important work to do back home. In the early morning Dirk and I transported two of the bottles we had previously placed at 45m depth to about 250m into the deep section. More would have been possible, but we had found a nice rocky place to drop them... so we did.
After the dive I started a seventeen(!) hour journey back to Austria. The project had been great fun and again I was amazed at how smoothly everything works when diving the DIR system.