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A not so typical dive trip
I know that I am going to get in to trouble with this one but it was a great experience.
I started setting up a dive centre with an ex German friend of mine on Lanzarote, building the place from scratch after 3 month I found out that he was not keeping to the deal we had and so decided to leave him to it and make my way back to Tenerife and set up one by my self in a place I know. I had my 5-metre rib on Lanzarote and everything right down to the kitchen sink as well. So my better half and I decided, that she take the Ferry to Tenerife with all our belongings and I take the Rib with the stuff that can get wet i.e. Dive gear and such. She left 3 days before me because the Weather did not permit me to leave. Sitting at home and listening to the weather report was a bit boring so I kept looking at the details of the planned trip on my boat. About 40 km of the south of Lanzarote there was this reef marked on the Admiralty Chart that kept jumping at me. When the weather got better I left Costa Teguise at 5am and made my way past Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to this Reef. I dropped the Anker in 30m of water got my kit sorted out and descended on the line. It was great the amount of fish I saw down there was like nothing I ever seen before on the Canaries Big Groupers Tuna, Jacks, Barracudas, And the rock formations where a great sight to I could see the silhouette of the rib 45 m above me the vis was really good. I was sorry to have to surface after 112 min. Pulled up the anker and made my way to Morro Jable on the south tip of Fuerte Ventura to spend the night there. Left there the next morning and went on from there to Teneriffe in my As a friend called it “ Floating Petrol bomb” From Gran Canaria to Tenerife it was a bit on the rough side but I got there at 11pm with a salt crust and a beard that looked like I had icicles in my face. This dive got me thinking how nice the underwater world can be if the Humans keep their hands of.
I know ca. 440km is a long way to go on a rib for just one dive, but it was worth the black and blue arse burning eyes sunburn in the face and muscles acing that I didn’t eve know I had, and if my other half finds out what I did on that Trip….. that is adding a real danger to solo diving.
Michael
A not so typical dive trip
I know that I am going to get in to trouble with this one but it was a great experience.
I started setting up a dive centre with an ex German friend of mine on Lanzarote, building the place from scratch after 3 month I found out that he was not keeping to the deal we had and so decided to leave him to it and make my way back to Tenerife and set up one by my self in a place I know. I had my 5-metre rib on Lanzarote and everything right down to the kitchen sink as well. So my better half and I decided, that she take the Ferry to Tenerife with all our belongings and I take the Rib with the stuff that can get wet i.e. Dive gear and such. She left 3 days before me because the Weather did not permit me to leave. Sitting at home and listening to the weather report was a bit boring so I kept looking at the details of the planned trip on my boat. About 40 km of the south of Lanzarote there was this reef marked on the Admiralty Chart that kept jumping at me. When the weather got better I left Costa Teguise at 5am and made my way past Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to this Reef. I dropped the Anker in 30m of water got my kit sorted out and descended on the line. It was great the amount of fish I saw down there was like nothing I ever seen before on the Canaries Big Groupers Tuna, Jacks, Barracudas, And the rock formations where a great sight to I could see the silhouette of the rib 45 m above me the vis was really good. I was sorry to have to surface after 112 min. Pulled up the anker and made my way to Morro Jable on the south tip of Fuerte Ventura to spend the night there. Left there the next morning and went on from there to Teneriffe in my As a friend called it “ Floating Petrol bomb” From Gran Canaria to Tenerife it was a bit on the rough side but I got there at 11pm with a salt crust and a beard that looked like I had icicles in my face. This dive got me thinking how nice the underwater world can be if the Humans keep their hands of.
I know ca. 440km is a long way to go on a rib for just one dive, but it was worth the black and blue arse burning eyes sunburn in the face and muscles acing that I didn’t eve know I had, and if my other half finds out what I did on that Trip….. that is adding a real danger to solo diving.
Michael
