Thx for visiting the northern part of Germany. My grandmother lived near Hemmoor half of her life. Some kilometers northwest of Hemmoor, its called Wingst. I never did any diving but the lake is very famous for its good diving conditions.
Good to see that you had a great day diving after all ☺️ And happy belated birthday, Ellie! Which concert are you going to that you'll come all the way back from the States for?
While Kreide literally translates as chalk, the accurate meaning in this specific context of mining is in fact limestone which is what was mined in Hemmoor until 1983.
No third diver, it was just us 2. There were of course other divers at the lake, which are the other people you saw. I was handling the GoPro the whole time, so all the footage is of either Ellie and some strangers
Darn it, you went to Hemmoor. That was once my favorite dive spot here in northern Germany. Could have met you guys there. But going diving this early in the year requires special cold water gear, especially dry suits. Anything else, no matter how thick, and you'll freeze your butts off. That lake has a year round temperature at the greatest depth of a mere 4-6°C, ie 35-37°F. Sure, the top layers can reach somewhat warmer temps in summer, but never really cozy and comfy. For me, personally, I never really liked dry suits, either trilaminates or neoprene ones. Trilaminates always felt like a plastic garbage bag to me, even though they are obviously far sturdier. The worst thing that can happen in a trilaminate is a leaking seam ANYWHERE allowing water into the suit. Which happened to me once. I hated, hated, HATED that feeling. Oh, and the undergarment onesie looks so much like a baby's onesie its ridiculous. So I usually went in with a semi plus an ice-vest for my torso but only in late spring or summer, and rarely below the 20 meter mark, either. It's greatest depth was once a bit deeper, roughly 65-70 meters, possibly. But too many inexperienced tech divers took their gear too deep for too long. The number of deaths were too high, so the owners decided to use part of a cliff face and send it as filler material to the bottom. Thus, it currently is around 60-62m deep at its greatest depth. Not that I ever went that deep; it's only stories I got from my diving instructor who actually went down to the 67 meter limit once before it was filled in a bit. Renting one of their permanent trailers stationed around the diving base is a great alternative to camping, or, even worse, driving there for a dive or two, then taking your car back to where you might have arrived from. But if you want to experience something fun, check out the Rüttler if the lake was calm, and you have good diving lamps. Best entry for that is number two at the side of the lake if you don't want to climb insanely steep steps with all your gear. If you don't mind some climbing entry 3 might be even preferable. Taking the long way from entry one (the comfy, barely sloping street) is quite some distance and you waste a lot of your air even getting to the Rüttler. Entry 2 is insidiously dangerous tho. While it looks fairly shallow beneath the floating pier it is actually up to 10 meters deep if you jump out a bit from the pier. If you jump in there without checking your BCD jacket you will plummet to the bottom in seconds and not even recognize as the water at entry 2 can be exceptionally clear. So I offer the advice: take the shallow steps from the pier into the water. It is much more comfy and safe as well. I once had to experience two morons there at entry 2. Both were in their semi-wet-suits with only a single first stage on ONE valve only. The first one jumped in, had forgotten to inflate his BCD jacket and bounced into the silt at almost 10 meters depth in a HUGE cloud of silt. Then he FULLY inflated his jacket and bobbed to the surface like a cork, fortunately exhaling all the time. He surfaced, breached, and yelled to his buddy to come in, because the view was so awesomely clear. Not that he noticed the huge cloud of silt he had stirred up, mind you. Then his buddy ALSO jumped in, ALSO not inflating his jacket, and ALSO dropping like a stone to the bottom, increasing the cloud of silt even more. Less than a minute later both idiots were back at the surface again, exclaiming their joy loudly for this spot. Me and my dive buddy looked at each other and were internally debating whether we should ring up those morons for their incompetent behavior, or if we should allow natural selection to weed out the stupids. Fortunately both survived their dive because we later saw them getting some food from the food truck on base. But both my buddy and me had our serious doubts about both making it out alive. Diving to 10 meters TWICE in 5 minutes and then resurfacing from that depth in less than a minute (possibly even half a minute) is risky to the extreme.
That sounds very scary what happened with the other divers! Glad they were all okay. Training is important. It does not sound like they were very experienced!
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Happy birthday, Ellie 🎂
Thx for visiting the northern part of Germany. My grandmother lived near Hemmoor half of her life. Some kilometers northwest of Hemmoor, its called Wingst. I never did any diving but the lake is very famous for its good diving conditions.
Good to see that you had a great day diving after all ☺️
And happy belated birthday, Ellie!
Which concert are you going to that you'll come all the way back from the States for?
While Kreide literally translates as chalk, the accurate meaning in this specific context of mining is in fact limestone which is what was mined in Hemmoor until 1983.
Oh what a mess, get wet when go diving. I feel with u ....
Who’s the third diver?
No third diver, it was just us 2. There were of course other divers at the lake, which are the other people you saw. I was handling the GoPro the whole time, so all the footage is of either Ellie and some strangers
Darn it, you went to Hemmoor. That was once my favorite dive spot here in northern Germany. Could have met you guys there. But going diving this early in the year requires special cold water gear, especially dry suits. Anything else, no matter how thick, and you'll freeze your butts off. That lake has a year round temperature at the greatest depth of a mere 4-6°C, ie 35-37°F. Sure, the top layers can reach somewhat warmer temps in summer, but never really cozy and comfy.
For me, personally, I never really liked dry suits, either trilaminates or neoprene ones. Trilaminates always felt like a plastic garbage bag to me, even though they are obviously far sturdier.
The worst thing that can happen in a trilaminate is a leaking seam ANYWHERE allowing water into the suit. Which happened to me once. I hated, hated, HATED that feeling.
Oh, and the undergarment onesie looks so much like a baby's onesie its ridiculous.
So I usually went in with a semi plus an ice-vest for my torso but only in late spring or summer, and rarely below the 20 meter mark, either.
It's greatest depth was once a bit deeper, roughly 65-70 meters, possibly. But too many inexperienced tech divers took their gear too deep for too long. The number of deaths were too high, so the owners decided to use part of a cliff face and send it as filler material to the bottom. Thus, it currently is around 60-62m deep at its greatest depth. Not that I ever went that deep; it's only stories I got from my diving instructor who actually went down to the 67 meter limit once before it was filled in a bit.
Renting one of their permanent trailers stationed around the diving base is a great alternative to camping, or, even worse, driving there for a dive or two, then taking your car back to where you might have arrived from.
But if you want to experience something fun, check out the Rüttler if the lake was calm, and you have good diving lamps. Best entry for that is number two at the side of the lake if you don't want to climb insanely steep steps with all your gear. If you don't mind some climbing entry 3 might be even preferable. Taking the long way from entry one (the comfy, barely sloping street) is quite some distance and you waste a lot of your air even getting to the Rüttler. Entry 2 is insidiously dangerous tho. While it looks fairly shallow beneath the floating pier it is actually up to 10 meters deep if you jump out a bit from the pier. If you jump in there without checking your BCD jacket you will plummet to the bottom in seconds and not even recognize as the water at entry 2 can be exceptionally clear. So I offer the advice: take the shallow steps from the pier into the water. It is much more comfy and safe as well.
I once had to experience two morons there at entry 2. Both were in their semi-wet-suits with only a single first stage on ONE valve only. The first one jumped in, had forgotten to inflate his BCD jacket and bounced into the silt at almost 10 meters depth in a HUGE cloud of silt.
Then he FULLY inflated his jacket and bobbed to the surface like a cork, fortunately exhaling all the time. He surfaced, breached, and yelled to his buddy to come in, because the view was so awesomely clear. Not that he noticed the huge cloud of silt he had stirred up, mind you.
Then his buddy ALSO jumped in, ALSO not inflating his jacket, and ALSO dropping like a stone to the bottom, increasing the cloud of silt even more. Less than a minute later both idiots were back at the surface again, exclaiming their joy loudly for this spot.
Me and my dive buddy looked at each other and were internally debating whether we should ring up those morons for their incompetent behavior, or if we should allow natural selection to weed out the stupids. Fortunately both survived their dive because we later saw them getting some food from the food truck on base. But both my buddy and me had our serious doubts about both making it out alive. Diving to 10 meters TWICE in 5 minutes and then resurfacing from that depth in less than a minute (possibly even half a minute) is risky to the extreme.
That sounds very scary what happened with the other divers! Glad they were all okay. Training is important. It does not sound like they were very experienced!