First Sea dive...wreck dive...boat dive...great day!

[ShinyD]

Originally Posted by endoman

Well done for the diving, sounds great, wish I could have been there.

I'm trying to fathon out the lip thing. If it was an allergy to the mouthpiece then you would expect it to affect both top and bottom lips. Do you have allergy to latex that you are aware of? Other thing could be pressure forn the reg on the upper lip causing localised increased blood flow.

Swap mouthpiece and see what happens. I assume there are plastic rather than latex based mouthpieces out there.

Take some antihistamine, hayfever type stuff and see if that makes a difference.

Bill

I've no idea myself Bill. I'd have expected top and bottom lip and maybe some gum and tongue swelling (not good!), but nothing like that...just the top lip. I don't have a latex allergy (latex seals are fine and leave no rashes or marks).

I'm going to look for a hypo-allergenic (sp?) one and replace it. Maybe it's a compound rubber and one of the compounds is causing the reaction?

The pressure idea is interesting, and it could be something to do with that...

Looking for antihistimine as I type

[TerryH]

Really dodgy (SUCS) characters alert !!!!!!!!!!!!!


The gang, complete with new super flagpole dryer


No idea what these guys were doing, but they took ages doing it.


Think we were really lucky to get away with it though.
Definitely freshened up on the way back, but sooooooo glad
we actually got to do some of the salty stuff

[Paul Oliver]

Well done Dave, glad you made the choice to go out, it is to me a personal diving hurdle many people never make, i think you will have the bug now

Well done also to Terry for making it happen

[big_si]

Congratulations on the first salty dive! Excellent trip report too! Glad all had a good time.

Here's to many more!

[quoggle]

Things will now get better and better and better.

[buchhawk]

Glad you had a great day, especially after your other thread.
So well done Terry & Dave
Thats what DIVING & YDs is all about
Ken

[Scuby]

Some pictures from the day here:

Facebook | David Walker's Photos – Diving with SUCS

Hopefully they work... including the conger picture you wanted Dave!

But yeah, lovely day out, great viz on the first dive, very nice wreck actually, the Betsy Anna - loads of life on it, and some nice intact bits with decent swimthroughs in both the bow and stern sections. Admittedly the second wreck wasn't quite so great, probably partially due to the rather dodgy viz, but still a nice bimble around (though I spent most of the second dive chasing a shoal of fish! )

Cheers again to Terry for organising!

David

Edit: couple of the photos included below, the rest are still on that link.

[PW1664]

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[PW1664]

Good to see you got out Dave....

Here's a reminder of the Betsy Anna, feel free to show your friends....

[ShinyD]

Great photos Scuby - thanks for posting them Those congers were amazing!

Thanks for the video link PW1664 - that's exactly as I remember it yesterday, except with Terry between me and the conger