Day Trip Between London and Manchester?

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Hey Tony,

Welcome back mate. If you'e gonna be in Manchester (my home town, btw), then the easiest gig will probably be the inland site at Ecclestone ('Eccy') Delph - see this link:

http://www.thedelph.com/plans.html

It looks a lot better nowadays, as some of the pics on the above link are out of date, but the site, I believe - and guys correct me if I'm wrong - sports the usual suspects of boat wrecks, cars and I think an APC and Tank! Depth I think now is 20-25 metres. Air on site (don't know about Nitrox) and I can't tell you if they rent kit or not, so you may need to bring your own - fellas, any help here??

Next time you're gonne be in town for more than a day, let us know and we can turn up and make a day of it.

Hope that helps mate. Travel safe.

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Quote[/b] (MATTBIN @ July 02 2003,14:38)]Just a small aside but you are going to have a decent SI (after landing) so as to be safe to dive arent you, there has been some talk recently over here about a risk of diving straight after landing from a long flight. I assume you are flying in from the States.

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Matt,

Must have missed that one along the line,  can you point me at the link or just give me the general spiel on what a reasonable SI is. ?

Daz

Edit - Actually just occured to me,  that must be a bugger for the special forces who do HALO jumps over sea  
Or maybe they have mastered doing a +5m safety stop on the chute.  

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Sorry Matt,

concerns over flights & diving are purely, in my experience, down to diving BEFORE flying and NOT the other way around. You can dive the moment you step off the plane mate......unless of course you can provide us here with some Empirical evidence to the contrary??

Nitrogen bubbles in the blood & tissue being compressed, reduced, made smaller (which is what happens when you descend to depth (any depth) in water, you can live with - even after coming from a controlled environment like the pressurised cabin of an aeroplane at 30,000 feet.

It's the same bubbles/gases expanding in situ (blood/tissue) when you ascend without the necessary time given over to their reduction/irradication/dilution - and that includes the necessary safety margin of a 12/24 hr nitrogen desaturation period prior to flying - that is where the concerns lie.

And of course, 'stepping off the plane' can mean both walking down the gangway of your holiday charter.....or the Loadie's tail-lift on a Herc C-130 prior to your HALO/HAHO jump  

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Why not treat the lad to a real warm Manc weekend to get him in the mood for his course? Craperwray in morning, Blackpool afternoon/evening - Eccie Delph in morning/Fantasy Bar lunchtime(and evening if he's got jet lag!!) followed by a night on the Golden Mile in Rusholme with a bit of the hot brown stuff to settle his stomach for lectures the following morning!! Just what the tutor ordered!!

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Hey Jonny,

You just may have very well hit the nail on the head with that suggestion! Sounds very much like a play. OK, looks like a troop gig in the offing for the 06th & 07th Sept - North West Styleee:


1. Honourable Guest to the UK - 'Sacramento' Tony
2. YD Ambassador Jonny Holmes
3. YD Ambassador Mark Davies
4. YD Ambassador Bren Tierney
5.

Ball-park itinerary:

Something resembling what Holmesy put up above, including, but not to exclude, sherry, diving, 'Thru'pennies Bar', diving followed by a sherry or five. Yes, I rather fancy the sound of that - YD takes Manhattan !    


Right then your North West lot (OK, even the Scousers!), let's be having your names in the ring. Oh go on then, sod it, let's throw the doors open to all and sundry and make a proper Troop Gig out of proceedings. Let's be having you.

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Hi Jules,

Definitely diving - we're introducing a foreign, yet fellow diver around the environs of our diving locale so he can appreciate the wets of offer (e.g. the Cape, Eccy Delph, Anglesey, the Lakes - i.e. Wastwater etc.)

So, join us sister! Bring Lesley, Liz and Chris and enjoy the diving. We can choose where and when we dive - and meet up in the PM both nights for a polite medium-sweet sherry....or two!  

See ya there.