Lakeside Diving

[divingniknaks]

Originally Posted by Captain Deco

I spoke to an old business partner of his recently who informed me that Kevin was no longer at Lakeside.

Cheers for that info, not what I hoped to hear but thanks anyway.

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[Captain Deco]

Originally Posted by divingniknaks

Cheers for that info, not what I hoped to hear but thanks anyway.

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No problem. The old business partner aluded to the fact that he and Kev were not mates anymore either. Some bridge burning going on between them I think.

[GTRJazz]

Originally Posted by hammerheads

Friend of mine did dive it and said vis was truly awful

I did my Dive leader rescue training at Grange water as it had a small beach, but that was back in the early 90s things may have changed. The vis however was always poor

[Rod]

I have done loads of dives at Grangewaters in the past when it was run by Divers 2000 and I was teaching there.
It is just like every London area dive site:- Poor viz almost all of the time, in the winter with no algae you can have 5 meters + until anyone stirs up the silty bottom.
Fine for checking out kit or just getting wet.

[hammerheads]

Thanks for the input ill have to load up my gear and go have a look for myself i think.

My initial reason for asking was that I heard if an Instructor takes students there for a course the Instructor dives for free as a thank you. Obviously with low profit margins free diving has its possible benefits but if the vis is no good then taking students there is a no go anyway.

I hasten to add i would have tried it myself first anyway I was just trying to get a feel for the place from anyone who had experience here

[RonProwse]

its open times, (unless they have changed in the last six months) are 07:30 -9:00 Sat and 06:30 - 09:00 Sun but dont quote me.

if you do see the two people running it say hi to Brian for me, it was him that got me into diving.

Ron

[Julian Goffin]

Leybourne is a pretty good training / Diving Lake.... Gets busy and viz can deteriorate when lots of OW Students in there (And some experienced Divers).. but a good little dive area, Had to open the second lake for divers on Sunday as it was very busy though

Julian