{"id":442,"date":"2017-02-03T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/?p=442"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T12:28:28","slug":"rec-dive-at-wied-l-ghasri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/2017\/02\/03\/rec-dive-at-wied-l-ghasri\/","title":{"rendered":"Rec dive at Wied l-G\u0127asri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, it&#8217;s been a while since my last post.\u00a0 Well, here goes a short entry\u00a0to break the silence!<\/p>\n<p>At present, I&#8217;m still\u00a0collecting footage for a short film I&#8217;m working on, and this picture was taken during a dive at Wied l-G\u0127asri, which included a hop &#8211; or should I say, fin-kick\u00a0&#8211; to Cathedral cave.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time\u00a0using\u00a0the new drysuit during a\u00a0single-cylinder, recreational\u00a0dive (as opposed to a technical dive\u00a0using a twinset), so it was mostly intended to be a\u00a0setup\u00a0familiarisation dive, with the fantastic Georgia Mainente (see photo) keeping close watch on\u00a0the trim. \u00a0We\u00a0quickly learnt that another dive is definitely needed before the weighting amount and distribution is nailed with this setup, so that will again be the focus of my\u00a0next dive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443\" style=\"width: 2704px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-443 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ed_still_05.jpg\" width=\"2704\" height=\"1520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ed_still_05.jpg 2704w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ed_still_05-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ed_still_05-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ed_still_05-2000x1124.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ed_still_05-171x96.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2704px) 100vw, 2704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Mainente in Cathedral Cave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The visibility was\u00a0good; the sea had calmed down following the strong winds we had last\u00a0week and which are set to return beginning of the next. \u00a0The water temperature was 15\u00baC at the bottom; I definitely\u00a0need to upgrade to some thicker gloves for Wintertime!<\/p>\n<p>Well, that is all for this one. \u00a0Until the next time, happy and safe diving to all!<\/p>\n<div id='stb-container-2218' class='stb-container-css stb-info-container stb-caption stb-collapsible stb-visible stb-image-big stb-ltr stb-corners stb-shadow'><div id='stb-caption-box-2218' class='stb-info-caption_box stb_caption stb-caption-box' ><aside class='stb-caption-icon'><img src='http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-special-textboxes\/themes\/stb-dark\/info.png'><\/aside><span>Dive Log Info<\/span><div id=\"stb-tool-2218\" class=\"stb-tool\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"stb-toolimg-2218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-special-textboxes\/themes\/stb-dark\/minus.png\" title=\"Hide\" \/><\/div><\/div><div id='stb-body-box-2218' class='stb-info-body_box stb_body stb-body-box' ><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a001\/02\/2017<br \/>\n<strong>Site:<\/strong>\u00a0Wied l-G\u0127asri<br \/>\n<strong>Time in:<\/strong>\u00a014:34<br \/>\n<strong>Time out:<\/strong>\u00a015:35<br \/>\n<strong>Runtime:<\/strong>\u00a061mins<br \/>\n<strong>Max Depth:<\/strong>\u00a019.6m<br \/>\n<strong>Bottom Temperature:<\/strong>\u00a015\u00baC<br \/>\n<strong>Visibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Good<br \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<script language='javascript' type='text\/javascript'>function getWR360PopupSkin(){return 'light_clean';}<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, it&#8217;s been a while since my last post.\u00a0 Well, here goes a short entry\u00a0to break the silence! At present, I&#8217;m still\u00a0collecting footage for a short film I&#8217;m working on, and this picture was taken during a dive at Wied l-G\u0127asri, which included a hop &#8211; or should I say, fin-kick\u00a0&#8211; to Cathedral cave. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,16,22],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cathedral-cave","tag-gozo","tag-wied-l-ghasri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}