Vivian quarry

[JohnK]

Taken from UK diving referring to vivian quarry

"Hello Scott - answers to your questions: We are opening ASAP - the hold up at the moment is the council's solicitor, who hopefully will sort things by the end of next week !!!! Times of opening - the same as it was in the past - w/days 10am - 5pm and w/ends 9am - 5:30pm. Night diving - yes - but we haven't yet sorted when. Fills - 10 & 12L 232B = £2:50p. 15L = £3 and Pony £1:50. Nitrox - we are hoping to add a membrane unit to the compressor, which will produce up to 40% oxygen - doing it this way - your equipment will not have to be O2 cleaned. - This will be in around 12 months time. Loose rocks and boulders - this is not our domain - only the centre, water and platforms. Ladder - we have designed our own - it is being made now - hopefully it will cater for all needs. Web Site - yes there 'will' be a web site - it could even be the first that Vivian had - as it is frozen at the server, because of non payment by the previuous owner.
John, jbushell@btinternet.com, 26 September 2003 "

[Mr T.]

Cheers for this Kirky,

Have you dived Viv? I've never been near her; what's she like? Interesting? So-so? Worth a trip?? I believe she's about 18/20 metres deep - true/false?

[angleseydiver]

<font color='#000080'>hiya Bren,
&nbsp; &nbsp;Good few yrs since I've been to Vivian. Very small- you can easily do a full circuit of it in a 20min dive. If not busy expect around 10m vis most of time. Depth 20m if you invert yourself and swim into the mud, arm outstretched- i.e. 18m &nbsp; Used to be a short swiming-pool ladder from platform- glad to see they're binning that. Small hut in it, 6m GRP shipwreck, a trout and some newts in it. Spot on for training in the early days. Never outdo Dotty because you have to pay &nbsp; and we know what tightwads divers are &nbsp;

ATB,
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Terry

[JohnK]

Agree - in summer it resembles a jaccuzzi when there are 20 divers in it. Having said that it can be a very oppressive dive - sheer cliffs all round, great vis, cold and quite dark - great fun. There are a couple of blast houses in it, small wreck etc but you can swim around the whole place in 20 mins. Max depth I ever got was 18m.

Best fun I had was looking at my buddys face as he swam thru one of the blast houses and stabbed his BC on some slate - bubbles everywhere and I could still hear him effing and blinding. There also used to be the obligatory gnome garden, 6m platform (complete with naked female headless mannequinn

Its worth a dive but thats about it.

Nearly forgot - entry was either a 3 foot giant stride or a 6 foot one from the one entry point. We used to do this dive on the way back from Dotty. Good site for beginners

[Jay]

I love Vivian having spent many a trainig afternoon there - maybe we should organise a YD trip there to help them launch it - anyone fancy liasing with the new owners to see if we can get a free trip with all the publicity we can offer?

[Jules]

yep I would be on for that Jay. I did my open water in vivian and it's a sound place for newbie divers, being as it's so small that that you cant get lost!
I want to take bethi there once it reopens so maybe when it does someone can post it here for us???
jules

[Twinset & Wing]

I could atempt to liase with the new owners to try and get a free trip in return for a bit of publicity of the site. &nbsp;If anyone has any objections then please post here,positive posts are good too lol.

DD

[abucksdiver]

<font color='#000080'>Silly question from a southern shandy-drinker &nbsp; &nbsp; ...

Where is Vivian?

abucks

[Jay]

North Wales in Llanberris (near Bangor)

[Mr T.]

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