divegirl

Last weekend we got hold of some yoke converters for our Apeks regs from some generous members off the DiveOz forums. We took the plunge and converted our Din regs to Yoke. It was quite simple, unscrew the Din head with a hex key and screw in the Yoke head. We have a service manual for our regs and followed the instructions regarding installing a yoke.

Today was our first dive with the new setup and it worked quite well. We went to Fairy Bower, fast becoming our favourite dive site. My rig had no issues. My husband’s had small minute bubbles coming off the the first stage. He took off his BCD and inspected it. He made sure the yoke cap was screwed on firmly and this seemed to stop the bubbles.

All in all I was quite surprised at how easy it was to change. And to think we got quoted $120 by a mainstream dive shop to send it to them and they would then send it to Apeks to get replaced by an authorised service technician.

The dive itself was pretty good. There was limited visibility and no sign of any duskies. At times it was also quite cloudy overhead which dropped the lighting condition. However we still managed to spot the resident wobbegong, a school of yellowtail, some salmon, groupers and a ball of striped catfish. I really can’t wait to pick up the G9 and underwater housing and start capturing images from our dives.

We also saw an octopus that was in a rock ledge. It was pullin a shell towards it. Next to it I saw some type of crab with very very slender arms. I thought it was a spider at first but I think it was a crab. If only I had a camera!