DUE Dive the Cuvier - Well some do!

[Paul Oliver]

After lots of last min calls yesterday we had a full boat on Neptune today out of Dover to dive the Cuvier, our favorite wreck

12 Divers and 3 crew which would have 14 in the water

The Sun was out and as we left Dover on a nice flat sea we had good quality water immediately

On site though it looked rather green and bitty as we have an early May plankton bloom shot was soon in and it was slack an hour early, so kitting up started

During this though while moving out of someones way i caught my suit and ripped a hole in the ass

A few had gone down when i jumped in with fingers crossed that the hole was just on the outer material, but i soon had a flush of 9 degrees water filling my suit, so straight onto the lift

Meanwhile Andy M had a Death Box Failure at 9m as he had not done the full Death Box Divers Pre-Dive Prayer so he bailed out to a leaky reg and ended up on his snorkel as he returned to the lift.

Madscuba had a free flow that no amount of shutdowns and Nigel's repair efforts on the wreck could not fix, so as he was on Indies he had a shorter than planned dive. He did consider swapping his stage reg over, but at that depth he would have needed it on the stage soon after completing the task so binned it.

The others however were having a great dive as a mild current ran through the wreck clearing the silt as they spidged. Carl had this feeling of the wreck trying to suck him deeper inside as he found a nice selection of crockery.

Rob was wizzing all over the place on his scooter not realising that he was losing deco gas till he tried to use it, but he had enough backgas for his 40 min of stops, however he found several available stages on the shot and used them to complete the deco.

So on the boat everyone was back, most with big smiles as the wind started to get up from the North East and the temp started to drop and much top quality spidge was admired

More views and lots of pictures to follow Oh water was 9 to 10 Degrees and there was about 5m of viz despite the early May bloom.

[David Burke]

good report Paul
it was a great day out,
thank you to all on the boat for making it such a good day
safe diving
dave

[ratcliffe]

That reads like a list of near disasters!

Glad it was a good days diving (for most of you) and sorry you didn't get wet, other than actually getting wet Paul!

[Captain Deco]

See....all those disasters and I wasn't there. No more calling me Jonah!!!

Bummer about the suit Paul. No more tea bag diving for you in your collection of holes held together by neoprene!!

[Mark Chase]

Yeah f-me Paul, that suit is as old as that pic in your Avtar and as shaged out as you actualy look now

Sorry you missed the dive M8

ATB

Mark

[Diving Dude]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

Sorry you missed the dive M8

l'm not...........ha ha ha ha ha.... he he he he ............ho ho ho ho.........

[501diver]

More pics to follow when I get the time. Roll on warmer water.

[501diver]

He went in and then straight out. He then tried to put on Daves suit but could not manage this and yet a certain large diver used it last week. Hummmm!!!!!

[Steve S]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, 'yarr not a looker among 'em'...........except Debs obviously.

Shame about the suit Paul, although to be fair it's only been the stubborn understains holding it together for the last couple of years I'm expecting a Worldwide shortage of neoprene when they've made you a new one

Safe diving,
Steve

[Paul Oliver]

Back Row Left to Right:-

Andy M, Paul Oliver, Carl, Debs, Trebor, Madscuba, David Burke, Richard.

Front Row:- Getafix, Nigel Ingram, John Lee, Graham Ferrett