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Originally Posted by weazelz

I had a good day too - probably my best sea dive of the year so far

MJH had laid on some cracking weather - blue skies, sunshine & a notably slight sea state - but this had evidently distracted her from such things as remembering gas

the skipper had obviously agreed with my choice of wreck & we headed off eastward to the TR Thomson

Paul & I were first in, with much heckling of our very moderate 73 litres of gas, & down the line with a little tide still running, to the welcome sight of a large rusty thing, 2-3m of viz & just enough darkness to make the torches work nicely. a very pleasant 40mins on a 28-33m bottom, past the boilers & up to the - I think - pointy end, & a nice conservative ascent for a 68min runtime, & last back on the boat

back on the boat for tea, golden syrup cake & a chat whilst we cruised back to the mythical 'Ledges' for a drft

mythical in that I've never seen the buggers. after 15mins of sand the wetnotes came out for a game of O's & X's, Paul must have been narc'd, as he left an obvious row for my truimphant victory. once back on the boat, he very unsportingly suggested that I had cheated

all in all a most enjoyable day, good weather, a cracking wreck & a good bunch on the boat. many thanks to Marieanne for organizing it

I'd have to agree with all the sentiments here so far. This was a great day out where we all had a decent dive. The TRT looks like a cracking dive and I'd look forward to going there again later in the season when the vis picks up (although 3m in places felt like luxury compared to the rest of this years diving)
Thanks Marianne for organising the day and Paul for a great job with the shot.
The only dark spot on the whole day was Andy's need to cheat at O's & X's while my back was turned on our 12m drift dive.
It's ok to want to win at all costs but to cheat so blatantly is beyond the pale

ATB
Paul