kyarra this morning. Rant!!!!

[onthetrain]

hi dudes,

Had a couple of great dives this morning. Caught the 10.30 slack on the Kyarra. Had about 6 M vis and a long slack. I had a nice 45 min bimble and although there were a lot of divers on the wreck it was lovely UNTIL THE LAST 5 MINS! At this time my buddy and I had made our way down to the stern of the wreck and were just about to blob up & surface.

At this point a trio of divers happened upon us. I have no idea who these guys were or which boat they were diving off, but suffice to say they pissed us off big time. I assume that the trio was an instructor & two novices. One of the novices was diving on a 15L cylcinder with 'OLIVER' written on the side. This trio came steaming past us with one guy doggy paddling and the other breast stroking. We veered off from them as they looked like they needed some space. Two minutes later the 'instructor + 1' swam past & above us & the next thing I knew No3 came from behind and below me and shoved me out of the way. This seriously pissed me off. I let this ride as the offender was obviously a novice but this was a serious breach of etiquette in my book. In normal circumstances this would call for a mask removal & retrieval exercise. ****Rant over****


Big thanks to Swanage diver who had noticed our rib had fouled its prop and came to check we were OK on the surface whilst it was cleared. He made a number of runs to keep us informed and to let us know the progress.


Anyway, aside from this we had a great dive. I saw some of the biggest pollack I ever saw. Down side, on surfacing the Portland chopper & weymouth lifeboat were scrambled. I hope this wasnt for a diver, and if it was I hope everything was OK.

In the afternoon we had a pootle on the valentine tanks. I honestly dont think I ever saw so many fish in such a small area before. Both tanks were heaving with Pollack & Bib. So all in all a great days diving.

I hope everyone got some diving in over the weekend. I'm getting withdrawal already as (weather depending) It's almost 24 hours until my next dive.

keep safe

Alan

[Medusa]

Was a touch busy this morning, couldn't get in my fave grot hole! Don't know the three you're talking about but there were some numpties out. Watching them launching the ribs at Swanage was embarassing to say the least! Look at for the jobsworth on the jettys at Swanage, apparantly you're not allowed to touch them if you don't pay to launch on the slip between them! It's not like divers don't bring any money to Swanage is it?? See you there next weekend!

[Paul Oliver]

Well it wern't me guv'nor

[onthetrain]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Was a touch busy this morning, couldn't get in my fave grot hole! Don't know the three you're talking about but there were some numpties out. Watching them launching the ribs at Swanage was embarassing to say the least! Look at for the jobsworth on the jettys at Swanage, apparantly you're not allowed to touch them if you don't pay to launch on the slip between them! It's not like divers don't bring any money to Swanage is it?? See you there next weekend!

Got into mine Finding some new stuff these days. Some lovely Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce bottles & some lovely bottles with what appears to be a cucumber face scrub. Some of our divers also found sheet music which could be read underwater and of course perfume.

God I love that wreck. for tonights dive we do a drift onto it (well if all is favourable) Get dropped half a mile or so upstream and if the tides areright you drift right onto the wreck. It's dive over if you miss though.... Should be a good one