Sounds like a cool trip. I did a dive on the Bell Virtue off Plymouth on the sunday but the vis was pretty grim past 40 and it was black, barely 2 metres with loads of shite in the water. Still nice to get a dive in though!
Anglesey trip 24th April
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Just wanted to say a big thanks to Andy Hayhurst for organising this weekends trip.
We booked on with Elfyn Jones who runs out of Amwlych
I had to travel almost 300 miles each way from London to Anglesey and would happily do it again.
Elfyn is a top class skipper who knows his onions and Stuart was a great help throughout the weekend.
We had an unknown for Saturday in about 60m and the Liverpool on Sunday (because of the weather) in about 40m or so.
Vis was in the 5-8m range
A few pictures:
Graeme and Dave wondering wtf is going on with the orange drysuit explosion
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The sea as we steamed out on Saturday
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A little something that came up on the 1st day
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And how it cleaned up overnight
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David "I am hunter. Hear me roar" Mills with Chris "Fish" laughing in the background
(Don't worry, it was released into the wild)
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All in all it was a great weekend with a good bunch of people and a cracking way to start the UK gas diving season
Cheers
Paul
We booked on with Elfyn Jones who runs out of Amwlych
I had to travel almost 300 miles each way from London to Anglesey and would happily do it again.
Elfyn is a top class skipper who knows his onions and Stuart was a great help throughout the weekend.
We had an unknown for Saturday in about 60m and the Liverpool on Sunday (because of the weather) in about 40m or so.
Vis was in the 5-8m range
A few pictures:
Graeme and Dave wondering wtf is going on with the orange drysuit explosion
The sea as we steamed out on Saturday
A little something that came up on the 1st day
And how it cleaned up overnight
David "I am hunter. Hear me roar" Mills with Chris "Fish" laughing in the background
(Don't worry, it was released into the wild)
All in all it was a great weekend with a good bunch of people and a cracking way to start the UK gas diving season
Cheers
Paul
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It was very dark at max depth on saturday but really brightened up above about 45m
Sunday was as bad and there was a huge amount of plankton in the water.
The seals came out to play on Sunday and we had Porpoises on Saturday.
The tidal range is huge from Angelsey and it never stopped running on Saturday, it just slowed down as it spun around before heading off the other way.
Elfyn's boat is a bit retro but a seasoned campaigner such as yourself George would feel right at home.
Sunday was as bad and there was a huge amount of plankton in the water.
The seals came out to play on Sunday and we had Porpoises on Saturday.
The tidal range is huge from Angelsey and it never stopped running on Saturday, it just slowed down as it spun around before heading off the other way.
Elfyn's boat is a bit retro but a seasoned campaigner such as yourself George would feel right at home.
Not only is Elfyn a good skipper but his non stop gabble is good entertainment too Glad you had a good trip, when it's right Anglesey is wonderful.
Glad you had a good trip, when it's right Anglesey is wonderful.
Nice to see you guys had a good time sorry you never had any good sizes lobsters off the Liverpool
Team Pikey have dived it
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Team Pikey have dived it
So we had team hunter, team hover , and team tango followed by a team lobster with everyone else on floor doubled up with laughter....
I think that about somes up whole weekends diving... lots of laughing and some diving thrown in for good measure..
looking forward to weymouth... for a some more fun
thanks to everyone for a good weekend
David
I think that about somes up whole weekends diving... lots of laughing and some diving thrown in for good measure..
looking forward to weymouth... for a some more fun
thanks to everyone for a good weekend
David
It was nice to meet you.
I doubt it was even 2 meters on the wreck at 70m.
we had about 2 metres on the penrhos out of conway - fair play to you - i didn't particularly like it at 16m, let alone that viz at 60 odd!!!
for info the plankton starts clearing up towards the end of june - July, August, Sept we often get 5-10m viz in the areas we dive (6/7 miles offshore, 35/40m depth) you probably get better the further/deeper you go, but no doubt Elfyn has told you this!
for info the plankton starts clearing up towards the end of june - July, August, Sept we often get 5-10m viz in the areas we dive (6/7 miles offshore, 35/40m depth) you probably get better the further/deeper you go, but no doubt Elfyn has told you this!
cheers guys .
must have large plums that hayhurst chap , lobby seemed to have no prob latching on to em
should be a nice lamp when polished up , take it the report form is in the post
we,ve had a good run of weather and viz the last week or so but the inshore viz dropped down to a couple of meters on last nights dive .
will take a few weeks to clear.
sent andy some rematch dates so hope to see you all soon.
elfyn
must have large plums that hayhurst chap , lobby seemed to have no prob latching on to em
should be a nice lamp when polished up , take it the report form is in the post
we,ve had a good run of weather and viz the last week or so but the inshore viz dropped down to a couple of meters on last nights dive .
will take a few weeks to clear.
sent andy some rematch dates so hope to see you all soon.
elfyn
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