Pictures from the Crater June 5, 2006
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : Pictures, Scuba diving abroad , trackbackMany thanks to Ralph from the Homestead Resort Crater dive centre who not only lent me his camera but also emailed through this weekend the pictures that I took while we diving .
I was struck by the way the light streamed through the narrow opening at the top of the crater creating a pillar of light in the water column. Unfortunately my photographic skills don’t do it justice but here we go anyway.
We also got a small video clip to go with it.
On top of the crater with the view of the Wasatch mountain range.
Inside the dive tunnel leading to the water
At the waters edge
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[…] Second lesson of the holiday, a scuba diver should always have his certification cards with him. I had brought mine along, (just in case) but Lisa had not bothered….. so a few fantic calls back home to the neighbours and we had her cert number so we could both dive. We arrived and checked ourselves in. The Crater is part of the adventure centre at the Homestead Resort and has a seperate checkin area to the left of the hotel. After checkin we wandered down to the entrance which is a hollowed out tunnel to the waters edge. Through here you pick up all the rental gear/tanks you may require and head down to the waters edge which is served by a pontoon built onto the surface. On the day we were there Ralph was running the dive centre and brought with him a really chilled and relaxed atmosphere to it all. He sorted out our rental gear and then after chatting and discovering that I was into a bit of underwater photography he lent me the centres Sea&Sea camera to take a few shots. (Follow this link). Once we were set we dropped in and so did Lisa’s mask all the way down to the bottom. All of a sudden we had a plan for the dive, search and recovery….. No problem said Ralph if we don’t get it, there are others who will bring it up and he passed Lisa a replacement. This was my first experience of diving in just a pair of swim shorts and a BCD. 34deg water meant we didn’t need anything else, maybe just some soap for a bath!. It took me a few moments to get used to the temperature and the looseness of the kit. Wasn’t used to that much freedom. There isn’t any life in the crater to speak off, although look out for the added critters in the water, but that is not the reason for diving the crater. One goes to dive to experience the hot natural spring and for me to enjoy the beams of sunlight dancing in through the crater roof causing shafts of light into the 20m pool. There wasn’t quite enough light at the bottom to get shots of each other, the internal flash just created backscatter but once I worked out how to turn off the flash we managed to get off a couple of decent shots looking up into the light. This was a thoroughly enjoyable one-off dive. A very unique experience to be able to dive in the heart of the rocky mountains and the Salt lake desert in 34/94deg water. In the end we spent about an hour in the water lazing around enjoying the water and the way the light danced around in the cavern. For more information on the Crater you can visit their official website at http://www.homesteadresort.com/ . or also check out an old but still relevant review from utah diving.com […]