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Old 30-04-08, 08:45 PM
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Wow! My folks used to take us to St Abbs at the weekend in the 70's. I remember how terrified I felt at the time watching all these odd folk walking around, dripping wet with black suits! How times have changed - people wear loads of different colours now!

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Attached are a few photos taken at St. Abbs back in 1966. Note the state of the art diving equipment and the lack of any buoyancy compensation. The youngster with the fish is me at the tender age of 18!
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Just said deco and and a depth - no indication for how long!
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Ah, there was nothing like watching it flash 'DEC 3' at you and wondering just how long it would do that for before it cleared.

Mind you, you had a fair idea that if you'd managed to push it to 'DEC 16" on the way up then you were going to be at 'DEC 3' for a loooonnnggg, time
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Ah, there was nothing like watching it flash 'DEC 3' at you and wondering just how long it would do that for before it cleared.

Mind you, you had a fair idea that if you'd managed to push it to 'DEC 16" on the way up then you were going to be at 'DEC 3' for a loooonnnggg, time
of course, that was if you remembered to turn it on before rolling into the water... or it turned itself. Many was the dive with just "Err" showing.

Great photos btw Allan.
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of course, that was if you remembered to turn it on before rolling into the water... or it turned itself. Many was the dive with just "Err" showing.

Great photos btw Allan.
Many were the dive ribs seen nosed up to a diver in the water with their arm in the air and a crewmember leaning over the side desperately trying to rub the contacts dry!

Some people today might wonder why these computers were named 'Aladin'; it was because you had to do some amount of furious rubbing to get the magic to work
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Attached are a few photos taken at St. Abbs back in 1966. Note the state of the art diving equipment and the lack of any buoyancy compensation. The youngster with the fish is me at the tender age of 18!
Woo hoo - loved the pic with the yellow piped wetsuits, that took me back to my very 1st dive in 1988 I thought I was the coolest looking guy on the planet with my shiney James Bond wetsuit Combine that with my super bright ABLJ and I almost looked like an '90s colour co-ordinated American diver
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Thank you...
It was fun, lot less clutter.
Used to get all my dive kit apart from 82cuft cylinder and 16lb weightbelt into my yellow Spiro bag (Wetsuit/ABLJ/DV/BIG knife/Depth gauge/compass/torch/SMBand reel)
Got technical when I started using a Pony cylinder and a drysuit....
What.....a Yellow Spiro Bag? You mean like this one that I put a new zip on (for $22 or 10 quid) last week and filled with my gear to take with me on the boat today?

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Anyone else remember diving with MkII Decobrains*, MkI Aladins or, horror or horrors, an Orca SkinnyDipper (the first computer I owned)
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Thankyou Richard for enlightening me - I had no idea what a spiro bag looked like.
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Started diving in 1984. Still got my yellow spiro bag (although mine is blue with yellow handles), toughest thing known to man those bags. Also still got my Spiro ABLJ in the loft somewhere and can still remember the old single skin fenzy's. Happy days.
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I started in 87 and I too had a big yellow bag although myine was made by Tusa. Still got it in the loft somewhere.

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