30m dive of weymouth - quick report

[Narked@50]

Just to keep you all abreast of the events of our dive a few days ago here is a quick report, nothing extream.

A dozen of us, mostly from clubs I've been a part of, and a few from YD - Jim Oldham, SCH, Mrs SCH, Fathoms Down and myself had a couple of excellent day in Weymouth on board Weychieftain III.

We got there Sunday evening and stayed at various diggs for the dive on Monday, the Aeolian Sky. The sun was beating down, the seas were flat and the boat was brilliant. You don't get it much better than this.

I was buddied with Nick, Fathoms Down, on his rebreather, as most of the others had buddies and I was on twins of nitrox, so it made sence.

The dive was good, I'm not going into massive detail, but the vis was about 8 meters and the water 18degrees, so it was comfortable to be modest. For some bizzar reason we seemed to keep finding congers, at one point we found three in as many minuits, and they weren't the small ones either. Anyway, 45 mins soon passed on a good wreck, it's fairly big, and although we got from one end to the other and then some, I recon we could do another couple of dives on it to get our bearings and cover it better.

Second dive was the Black Hawk, a broken up liberty ship, but fit for a rumage second dive none the less. We spent 20 mins on her, found the required shed load of conger, and sontered off for a drift across the open seabed. We spent an hour on this, so it wasn't bad, but not one I'm going to rave about.

Day two was the same start as day one, sun, calm seas and good company - perfect. We started on the M2, and I must say, it was far better than I had anticipated. It is a perfect submarine laid upright on the sand and totaly intact, very impresive, not your usual "wreck". The fish life was realy good to, shoals of bib mixed with the occasional large pollock constantly shifted over the wreck, and of course, we found another 3 conger - on a sub!

Second dive for that day was "Venus", it must be the lunar landscape it was named after as this was a 20m slow drift along a beach. It was fairly uneventfull, most only lasted 20-30 mins, but with the aid of my willing buddy, we done another hour or so playing spot the dog fish, with a few plaice and lots of spider crabs for company, we even seen a large cuttle fish which shot off at an impressive rate.

So all in all, an excellent trip, I'd like to thank everyone who came along, we had no problems of any sort, everyone mixed well and got on with each other, which is brilliant when we had PADI/BSAC/OC and rebreathers all diving together, just as it should be.

James

[Tricky]

Originally Posted by Narked@50

...the dive on Monday, the Areolina Sky.

Not heard it called that before, it's actually the Aeolian Sky Also, pretty sure the Black Hawk is a WWII Liberty Ship, not a dredger.