Favourite Dive

[StevieH]

Hi All,

A work colleague posed a question the other day it went along the lines of:- "What's the best dive you've been on?" This got me kinda thinking because I suppose I've had some brilliant dives for many a reason, whether it was my first ever open water dive to a unheard of depth of 8 metres down on the nature trail at Bovi. Or in the Red Sea when we penetrated the Salem Express- very spooky. Another dive was my first Trimix dive to 54 metres - wow!!!!!! Diving with sharks, manta rays etc.

I know people have many different reasons and diving is soooo addictive, I would like to know what others see as their fab dive.

Regards

StevieH

[Zuza Expeditions]

Worldwide, for me it has to be Pulau Tenggol, east coast Malaysia. The dive site is Tanjung Api... giant grouper, schools of trevelly, barracuda and VERY strong currents. Safety stop done clutching a rock pinnacle, then flying off like comets in the current. Ive never dived anywhere in the world better than this place. www.tenggolisland.com

UK - Lundy Island - dive site - the knoll pins - incredible vis with sunset cup coral and jewel anemones. I didnt think UK diving ever got that good, it blew me away. Lundy Island is the UK's first statutory No-take Zone - so no anchoring in the zone and no harvesting!

Interested to see others' choices,

Cheers,
Holly

[Spike Jackson]

Penetrating the Salem Express is considered extremely poor form. They were pilgrims returning from Mecca and as such the Egyptians do not like anyone penetrating the wreck.We respected their wishes when we dived it, staying striclty outside

[kinetic]

The best diving and the best single dive I ever did was in Palua, Micronesia.

There were some great dives and some very much like that mentioned by Zuza, having to hang on to rocks in racing current to do a safety stop and then letting go and just been swept away.

The best dive I did there was the the Blue Holes (max depth) 35 - 40 metres. Jumping in and just falling down this tube into the cavern below and looking back up seeing the sunlight behind the three fellow divers following. Then going in to a small cave at the back of the main room, called Temple of Doom...so called, I believe, because there are the remains of turtles in there that went in and could not find there way out.

Palau was just a great place...I haven't even started to mention the wrecks but the reef diving was spectacular and the wrecks in the laggons we did when it was too choppy out on the reef.

Can't wait to go back.

Graham

[Midnight]

It is always the next one!! I never know what I will see even on a regular site.

It also makes me think about being around for "the next one"!?

Have to say that the "Gorm" is pretty high, but a slightly snotty dive last year off Lambay with an Octopus also rates fairly high.

Nothing ever qite measures up to that cold november day 1996, dive number 001. I have a 3 page essay attached to my log book about a 29 min dive to 6.8m in a muddy puddle called Laybourne Lake in Kent!!

Still loving it
Regards
Midnight

Regards
Midnight

[Mark Chase]

Best wreck, still probably the Duke but I loved the Pangarney as well. The Duke possably winns because of the prop and the cracking penitratin bits and in part because it was just way better than anything I had ever dived before. I was also sh#ting my self the first time I dived it as it was my first 60m wreck (even if most of it was at 55)

Best other dive has to be Brothers in the red sea. Having finished watching the hammer head shoals in the blue you could do then do a cracking wreck and then in the Ieads and the Namiba and finish off the dive with deco on one of the best walls in the world.

As long as you had a CCR and three hour run time that is

ATB

Mark Chase

[Druid]

The first dive is always going to be a bit special, mine was in October 97 in Stoney. I was gobsmacked when I saw a pike hanging half out of the cockpit window.

Done a few more since then and my favourite has to be the Canyon in Dahab. Last dived it in August, early morning - we were the first divers in and the viz was really good. I love the feeling as you drop down to 30m between the rock walls, then hover near the bottom with the sunlight shining down through the water

[Paul Oliver]

SMS Koln, outstanding, closely followed by the SMS Brummer

[John N]

There was a thread on this a few weeks ago. If you can find it, there are loads of responses.

[Paul Oliver]

Originally Posted by John N

There was a thread on this a few weeks ago. If you can find it, there are loads of responses.

There's a thread on this every couple of months, but at least its dive related and non-contentious hmmm sometimes.