Surprise!

[angleseydiver]

With the up and down weather we've had through most of this month it was nice to get a break and a diving opportuniy today Despite a pounding by Northerlies the vis has been holding up well, OK it's pissed down all day but there's no wind and a flat sea. I made my excuses and left work around 2p.m. to meet up with Elfyn and fuel-up the boats for this weekend's trips, done by 4.00pm "hmmm! sea looks nice and flat, flat enough to get the compressor-boat out and do some air-lifting on the Dak" says I
" It would be rude not to." says Elv.
So, by 5.00pm, I was there, ferretting away under a section of the Dakota that looked "interesting". Within no time the air-lift had gorged the mud from the outer edge of the plate and I had a nice Minton tile and a small saucer for my efforts and now I could drop into the trench to investigate further under. I could see a chink of light off to my right about 3m away and that the "hold" was filled with mud to within 18" of the plate, then I spotted something "interesting looking" off to my left (maybe an intact tureen, been a while since I had one of them). As always it was "just" out of reach and a collapsed lump of girder/concretion hampered my way, I reversed out of my hole and fed the end of the air-lift in then followed it in, feeding it with handfulls of mud and debris on the way. My headlamps were useless for now and it was dark and noisy under there but I soon got a good grip on the concretion... I'm sure I felt a tug on my fin at this point, but shrugged it off as a piece of shite dropping back from the end of the air-lift, 5m above. So I started to wrestle out the lump of concretion... and there it was again... something definitely pulled on my fin!
I knew I was the only one in the water... I felt spooked... I tried to convince myself I'd imagined it, but the little voice said "you shouldn't be in here, it's dodgey"... so I wriggled myself out and had a look around- just the usual Dakota scenery, well, better than usual- vis about 8m, the familliar wrasse and gobies hanging around for the free feed I was disturbing for them. I looked at the plate I was working under- looked ok, supported over there and there, sorted!
Back in I went, it was fairly clear under there as I'd left the air-lift to do it's job and I got a fresh fix on where the "tureen" was. I wrestled out the concretion to make enough room for myself and crawled through the blackness in the direction of the spidge, I could reach it, just, it wasn't loose I backed out a bit so I could get the trowel out of my thigh-pocket and wriggled in as far as I could to work my trowel around the piece, I fed the end of the lift closer to it and I was just begging to be able to see what I was doing around the "tureen" when...



WHAM! somethings got my arm!


It's got my f*cking arm! It was trying to

pull me into where I won't fit! F*ck! F*ck!

Then it let go.... as I lay there hoping my heart was still beating the air-lift started to clear the cloud, I turned my head to look to see if I still had an arm
and there it was, in my face! A fat conger!
I called it a
TW*T! and smacked it on the nose with my trowell! (stupid is as stupid does!) It went mental! I got out of there in a cloud of rust, mud,blood and snot in about 2 seconds...thankfully it buggered off sulking but I had to get out for a cig and a brew...
Oh, and Elfyn got the swag... when he got down there it was lying in the bottom of the ditch after being distubed in the commotion!

Such is life....


ATB,
Terry

[Tim Ingmire]

Twatted it on the snout with a trowel. Priceless, you daft bugger.

[Angleseyskipper]

Originally Posted by Tim Ingmire

Twatted it on the snout with a trowel. Priceless, you daft bugger.

yep and he sent me in to finish the job and never mentioned the beastie was even there ,now thats what i call a TWAT!
deffo a bad tempered ,northern ,pie eating fat conger with a sore nose cheers M8.

[McFi]

Nice one Tell see you both again soon.

[louigi]

pesky critters and i'll bet I know just where you where. Still priceless any way, and their's me just finished makeing my own wrekies helmet. Oh and registering mrs McFi.

[Diving Dude]

l'll have to come up there with my conger prodder to show you how to deal with the pesky mites.

Funny read though mate

[angleseydiver]

Hey! Dude,

There's no scrap to be had round these parts, move along now...

Tim IngmireTwatted it on the snout with a trowel.

Yeh, Tim, should have learned that lesson around five years ago... had one that wasn't scared by the "shine your torch in it's eyes" routine so picked up a lump of wreck and smited it on the beak- chased me about 3 times round Maen Piscar that one! They look so soft with them puppy-eyes but you just can't trust the b*stards.

ATB,
Terry

[DVR]

Originally Posted by Yellow Butty Box

yep and he sent me in to finish the job and never mentioned the beastie was even there ,now thats what i call a TWAT!
deffo a bad tempered ,northern ,pie eating fat conger with a sore nose cheers M8.

Dont talk about my mate terry like that , he's not that fat

[Kalahari Diver]

Hey Elfyn, I know you're getting into this fishing stuff but I looked it up and nowhere does it say "your divebuddy is good as conger bait" lol.

David.