Mr Tierney gave me an idea!

[peter k]

[peter k]

ACROSS:

1. Essential decompression fluid (3)
3. Keeps you warm and wet (7)
7. There are plenty more of these in the sea (4)
8. Feed the fishes (5)
9. Little tides (4)
11. You want to be careful how you pick these
up! (5)
13. These eat little fish (3,4)
14.  Soft boat (3)
15. Rapture of the depths (8)
20. An item of diving equipment; the name
must be a joke! (7)
23. Connects your bits together (4)
24. Used for tying up buoys, etc (4)
25. Britannia rules them (well it did). (5)
27. Rhymes with ‘banker’ (6)
28. Substitute for a diver's brain (8)
30. Big tide (6)
31. Weight (4)
32. Brown slimy stuff (4)

DOWN:

2. Tropical diving suit: some people look great in it, but not many... (5)
4. Fire coral packs one of these (5)
5. Essential diving gear for wreckies (5)
6. A busted boat (5)
7. Pectoral, dorsal and pelvic... (4)
10. Nerve centre of any diving expedition (3)
12. Smarts a bit in them joints! (5)
13. Carries 12 divers in considerable discomfort(4)
14. Flat cartilaginous fish (13)
15. Might help you get out of bed in the
morning...(6)
16. A great bit of kit, if only those fish would keep  still! (6)
17. Nutrient rich waters (6)
18. A fish you wouldn't lend money to (5)
19. Commonly mistaken for overweight divers (5)
21. Do knot mistake this for a rocky outcrop (4)
22. A tasty morsel, available for Queens and Kings (7)
26. An exoskeleton you can be sure of (7)
27. You won't get far without this (3)
29. Lots of this in Guildenburgh (3)