A GREAT DAY OUT AT STONEY

[Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by SilvaFish

Last week at Stoney, I got 5 degrees at 20m. Is my computer faulty?

Mine must be faulty. I got 7 degrees on my puter.

Originally Posted by DIVE BUDDHA

first dive i had the pleasure of accompanying big kahuna (chris) and his mate on a little bimble around the staingarth and a play on the 20 m shelf .

thanks for that chris as it was ace !

Nice to meet you at least. Good to have you along.

Originally Posted by DIVE BUDDHA

me and julie set off at 6.30 and still got on the bottom car park it

was ace none of the weekend stupid o clock start !

hey pete i will have to have a ride up to capers for a days diving with ya !

At least you did not make the same mistake as we did and think it was Sat opening hours. I picked Bob up at 6.15 and was 4th in the queue at Stoney for 6.35 am!

We drove over the bridge and commented how lucky we where to get on the bottom car park near the water! The penny dropped as we got to the bottom of the hill to see only a few cars in front .

[Scubee]

Glad you all had a good day and it is nice to see the sun out for you!

[pieater]

Originally Posted by Ali

The main reason I have this tank was for switching between my twins and single without having to strip my regs. So no extra cost for me


Ali

Ahhh, trumped by the "too lazy to frig about with my rig for shit 20M stuff" card.

Fair play to ya fella, and done that myself.

[DIVE BUDDHA]

Originally Posted by weazelz

how was the viz Leigh? I think we're up there on monday with the other didn't-get-out-of-dover'ers

yep viz was ok a little murky but nowt out the ordinary for stoney !

i hope ya have a top day at the cove monday and let us know how u get on

[DIVE BUDDHA]

Originally Posted by Big Kahuna

Mine must be faulty. I got 7 degrees on my puter.



Nice to meet you at least. Good to have you along.



At least you did not make the same mistake as we did and think it was Sat opening hours. I picked Bob up at 6.15 and was 4th in the queue at Stoney for 6.35 am!

We drove over the bridge and commented how lucky we where to get on the bottom car park near the water! The penny dropped as we got to the bottom of the hill to see only a few cars in front .

was lovely having a dive with ya chris a real pleasure mate

[Balders]

Originally Posted by pieater

Ahhh, trumped by the "too lazy to frig about with my rig for shit 20M stuff" card.

Fair play to ya fella, and done that myself.

Ok......... call me a bluff old traditionalist if you will, but surely you need the same weight configaration for your bouyancy regardless of what rig you use?? Whether your at 40m or 15m.

Apart from lugging your kit in and out of the car, and on and off boats then what difference does it make? Unless your shore/shallow diving.

I'm still convinced that 2/3 completly seperate air sources is the safest way to dive.

Balders

[Scubee]

I understood that to mean if he was diving 20m stuff, it would be on a single cylinder, but ordinarily dives on a twinset.

I have two sets of regs - one set for my twins, one set, which are rigged differently, for single cylinder diving.

[Ali]

Originally Posted by Balders

Ok......... call me a bluff old traditionalist if you will, but surely you need the same weight configaration for your bouyancy regardless of what rig you use?? Whether your at 40m or 15m.

Yes I have more weight on my belt. 6kg on my belt and carry 5kg on my tank in a shot pouch.

Apart from lugging your kit in and out of the car, and on and off boats then what difference does it make? Unless your shore/shallow diving.

Now were getting somewhere I used to dive twin 10s and 2 side 7s and was just starting to dive some good wrecks before all the PFO shit kicked in. After failing post op bubble study I decided to go back to basics. Lugging a empty single 15 about after a dive rather than twins is better for me. Although lugging stuff about after a dive is what causes the shunting of blood across your heart an that's not good

Also I dive 40% all the time and to get 2 good dives out of the twins was ok if I wanted to stay shallow for the 2nd dive and come back with about 30 bar. Now I have 2 good long dives and come out with 50+ bar.

I'm still convinced that 2/3 completly seperate air sources is the safest way to dive.

Totally agree, and hopefully one day I will have another set of twins. I keep joking that I will twin up my 15s. I did have a go with my mates 12s a few months ago and loved them, so easy to shut down. But not as friendly as the 15 to throw off after the dive

Ali

Balders

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