Weekend in Anglesey

[puddlediver]

A few of us decided to take the RIB out for a weekend to Anglelsey. Met office forecast was for rubbish weather on Saturday and calm seas on Sunday.

True to form, that's what we got. Couldn't go diving on Saturday so went for a bimble around a castle and fish and chips for lunch.

Had a look at Bull bay on the way back and it looked ok so decided we'd dive the Dakota on the Sunday.

HW Liverpool was 4 ish in the afternoon, we thought that there might be a low water slack so launched in time to catch that. Got there and the buoy was being pulled under so defo not slack. (Have looked on the internet since and have read that the only slack is -2.3 HW L/Pool to +1.3 HW L/Pool.) The plan was to drop us in up stream so that we could drift onto the wreck.

The water was 8 degs and the air temp was 11. I dropped down to 10m, put my dsmb up (lost buddies on descent in blackness) then had an exhilarating fast drift over a wreck on a night dive (just before 11am!).

The dive lasted 21 mins and by that time I had drifted over the wreck and off it again, being pulled down to 25 metres. I called it quits at this stage and ascended to find the boat waiting for me and my two buddies on it, they had aborted early on due to vision and ear problems.

Have had my first sea dive of the year. Brill. The Dakota defo needs a further look but must find out about slack though.

Anyone know for sure?

Cheers

Lyv

[PeeBee]

Great plan,
guess at the tide,
jump in drop down,
swim around a bit
come back up

My kind of planning that. Glad you had fun even in carp vis.

[puddlediver]

Hi Peebee,

He he he. Some of the time our club diving is like that. Admittedly, the intention was to do two shallow bimbles on Saturday for those who haven't been wet for a bit then do the Segontium on Sunday.

We did have the right information for the Segontium but unfortunately due to being blown out on Saturday we didn't fancy doing a deeper dive without the pre check dives.

Still, I did get wet in the salty stuff.

Cheers

Lyv

[pieater]

The conditions were looked absolutely ace didn't they? So much so that I was on the rebreather with my fins on while the front half of the RIB were shotting the wreck. Depth looked like 28M and the "unknown" gave an interesting fishfinder signal that looked like ribs and spars with the "wreck" broken into a crescent shape, rising 2-5M from the bottom. It looked bloody good.

Sadly, the alleged "slack" magnificently failed to materialise and we measured the flow as .7 to 1 knot. Didn't budge at all. For an hour.

One pair went in and were up inside 5 minutes saying by 10M it was a black as a witches hat and you'd get better viz in a tin of Pea & Ham soup.

Arse. Another three went in and did a great job of bouncing the shot along the bottom away from the wreck. By the time they were down and up it'd drifted 0.4 of a nautical mile - which I think would count as more than "slightly"

So, I never actually got in. From all accounts, I didn't miss much.

Terry / Elfyn - keep me informed lads I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.

[puddlediver]

Hi Pieter,

Were you the guys we saw on the car park when we were packing our stuff away, one of you came across to speak to us. You were just off to launch the rib. We were three blokes and me.

Cheers

Lyv