24hr open water dive - charity event

[Jaques Custard]

Hope to see you there STeve, be good to have you if you can make it. Just been to the club meeting and the event is growing bigger than we all could have enven dreamt of I will keep y'all posted on how it goes

Safe diving peeps

[Jim Shaw]

Hope all goes well with the event, , have you got enough divers to cover it ?, or are you looking for some more ?,

Not volunteering myself,( too far away ) but if you are short of numbers, maybe some of our Scottish members would consider helping out, if they are free.

[charlie mcg]

Yeah, this is destined to be a great event (the organisation is very thorough).

A number of our club members are doing some of the graveyard shifts. In fact 4 of us are scheduled to be underwater together doing the switch over at midnight: fun!

[Jim Shaw]

Originally Posted by charlie mcg

Yeah, this is destined to be a great event (the organisation is very thorough).

A number of our club members are doing some of the graveyard shifts. In fact 4 of us are scheduled to be underwater together doing the switch over at midnight: fun!

Wishing you well, and looking forward to reading a trip report on the event

[atlantic-diver]

brief note to say that we completed our planned 24 hour dive last weekend without any major hiccups or incidents. i pesonnally was up for 33 hours straight - drive back was scary . we hope to raise between £5-10,000 for the charity - cash for kids .

what i would like to know has anyone heard of 24 hr SEA dive been done before in scotland ?(or the uk? ) anyone heard of other groups doing this - would nice to get a first but it was mainly done for the charity. let us know.

lots of people take easy pool option , not really diving that

thanks
kenny

[user]

Atlantic Divers are a central Scotland independent dive club and have successfully carried out this event to raise funds for the Cash For Kids appeal

The event was a 24 hour dive held in the open sea at the Quarryview Tearoom on Loch Fyne. The aim of the event was to have at least two divers continuously underwater over a 24 hour period. This was achieved by operating a relay system in which each buddy team spent a period of 30 minutes underwater, they would then wait until the next two divers submerged before surfacing. Each buddy pair descended 5 minutes before their 30 minute slot and then took 5 minutes to ascend so each pair was actually in the water for 40 minutes. Most of the buddy pairs carried out two 40 minute dives over the 24 hour period.

To facilitate the event an underwater course was set up with a deco station set at 6m, from this a fixed rope then descended to 10m which run for 70m, this allowed the divers to swim out for 10 minutes and get back to the deco station in time for the next pair of divers descending.

The 24 hours was split into 48 x 30 minute slots, and we had 58 divers taking part from various diving organisations throughout Scotland. We also has 14 surface support staff, all those who agreed to take part in the event turned up on time even though it was raining heavily and blowing a gale for 20 hours!


Planning the event took over three months and required a massive logistical effort, the site was fully flood lighted for the night time section.


If you would like to find out how much this event has raised log on to our website in the next few weeks Atlantic Divers - Home We would be grateful if you could make a donation towards the charity, details can also be found on our website along with photos of the event.

If you want to contact someone in our club please contact either Ian or James at: Ian@atlantic-divers.co.uk or James@atlantic-divers.co.uk

[deborah]

the dive was a great event but exhausting
thanks to stirling uni especially as they had the graveyard shifts and the weather was atrocious
thanks to all other clubs and divers who took part and thanks to the quarryview tearooms who stayed open all night for us
hope to do something next year if james and the rest of the club are up for it
debs

[Jaques Custard]

Count me and the misses in, if all you at YD are listening we'll fill you in on what we decide to do i'm sure. How about a 24 Hour freedive? No Just kidding I smoke too much for a start

[user]

We raised £8500 for the chosen charity, hope to get some info in some of the diving mags shortly.

We are looking at doing another charity diving event this year, which will be much bigger and involving loads more divers, the 24hr dive had 60 divers taking part and we are hoping that we can involve divers from all over the country. Details will be posted shortly.

Bigs thanks to all the divers taking part, any suggestions for possible charity events can be posted on our forum at Atlantic Divers - Home

[milldog]

congratulation thats a fantastic amount

well done

Graham