Blown out ? 2

[Bob Cooper]

Take a look at this

Weymouth Weather

[Davey Willo]

How cool is that!!  

[Jay]

Doesn't work for me - shows 'LOADING' then a blank screen?

[Col.Maniac]

Any chance of getting it for the Dover area?
Tony

[Mark Chase]

Were you on Defiant Bob?

If so, so was I???

We thaught it was borderline last night but looking at todays forcast we should have gone out

Mark Chase

[Andy Phillips]

Yeh, I'm all bitter about this one, very, very disappointed, this was the last dive I had before a little eye operation, now I have 4-6 weeks off, and I am not allowed to dive.

Will have to say something to the skipper when I next see him

Andrew

[Bob Cooper]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Mark Chase @ Jan. 17 2004,10:08)]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] ]Were you on Defiant Bob?

Yes!!  Me and Howard have one a month booked on Defiant from December to March.  Two out of two blown out so far.

We went to the Silica Mines instead and did two fantastic dives, really good fun!

You get a good cardio-vascular workout too, walking your kit up a mountain for 25 mins!

[Mark Chase]

Whats the temp and the viz like in the silica mines??

UK cavediving dosent apeal to me much but I herd these were worth doing.

Mark Chase

[Diving Dude]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Bob Cooper @ Jan. 17 2004,23:02)]Yes!!  Me and Howard have one a month booked on Defiant from December to March.

Wow Bob, thanks, thats the first l knew about it.  

[Bob Cooper]

Mark

Vis is good (20m) water is 8deg all year round.  There is a very extensive network of tunnels at depths up to about 30m with some very haphazard lines. You need to be very careful with your line marking protocol or you could quite easily get disorientated and lost.  It's also very silty, so you need to be careful.  I wouldn't like to attempt a zero vis exit with the lines the way they are.

We found the very long tunnel on our 2nd dive and calculated about 400m of penetration, but had to drop seven markers on the way in.

The main problem is access.  Imagine walking up the slope at Dorothea and multiply the distance by about ten, put in a few steps and boulders and a couple of fences to climb over and that's what you're up against.  It takes about 25mins to walk to the entrance from the car park and you need to make two trips.

I wouldn't recommend anybody goes there without cave training and some post training experience.  It's quite an advanced dive from that point of view.