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On a dive at Scapa last year, skipper dropped us in on a nice easy drift dive along a wall at around 14m, telling us to take care to stick close to the wall cos the current can whip you away if you're not careful.
40 mins later. Boat full of shell-shocked divers. Most had been hoicked off the wall by the current and had a berserk time roaring round the Flow for miles at a serious rate of knots, being alternatively yanked down to 40m by down-currents, then hurled back up again by up-currents. One guy got so entangled by his DSMB line he looked like a spider's victim.
Me and bud avoided current and had a pleasant dive, but on surfacing found ourselves spinning round and round in a whirlpool on a madly-roiled surface, frantically inflating everything. Everybody got out safely, but it was a bit of a drama at the time.
Skipper's comment while all this was going on?
"Well that's me fucked" |