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Hi all,
As I was only able to do one day of Mark Davies' Anglesey gig I thought it was only fitting tho say Thanks to Mark and all those concerned for a great, if not entirely successful diving day.
After loading the Julie Ann from the top of the harbour wall, she was 30 ft below, Our merry band of Mark, Kate, Tony, Louigi, Fiona, Will, John, Stev-il and myself set off for the SS Torch (very aptly named as it turned out) along with Eylfin (sorry about the spelling) and Bob (I think). The sea was flat calm with very little wind and all was right with the world.
John Mitchell and I were the first in, we could see things were going to be a little challenging as I could barely see my own fins whilst we were at the surface and the deeper we went the darker it became. When we eventually got to the bottom of the shot it all I could see was John's torchlight
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I had a look around and saw some beautiful plumrose anenomeas on the wreckage and a couple of Dahlia anenomaes and then could no longer see John. When I turned my torch in on myself to stop ir reflecting off the silt in the water to try and locate my missing buddy by trying to see his light, well the closest I could describe it as would be a coal mine, at night, with no lights on - Nice.
After releasing the DSMB and ascending I did find John again, he was back on board the boat. It turns out that he stayed by the shot and then went back up it after losing me but we did say that if we became seperated we would just come straight back up.
Max depth: 22.5 mtrs, Time 35 minutes
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and zero viz. Fantastic.
I decided not to do the second dive as I had begun to get pretty cold on the return journey and my nose had started running, which it is still doing now, and drove home. I just hope the guys had better luck today.
Thanks again to the Julie Ann and her crew and the YDers for a great day out filled with good jovial conversation and helping to make it a fun day out - even if the dive(s) was "interesting" and as Cpt Red Beard said in Black Adder - I'll be back, we'll all be back.
Hi all,
As I was only able to do one day of Mark Davies' Anglesey gig I thought it was only fitting tho say Thanks to Mark and all those concerned for a great, if not entirely successful diving day.
After loading the Julie Ann from the top of the harbour wall, she was 30 ft below, Our merry band of Mark, Kate, Tony, Louigi, Fiona, Will, John, Stev-il and myself set off for the SS Torch (very aptly named as it turned out) along with Eylfin (sorry about the spelling) and Bob (I think). The sea was flat calm with very little wind and all was right with the world.
John Mitchell and I were the first in, we could see things were going to be a little challenging as I could barely see my own fins whilst we were at the surface and the deeper we went the darker it became. When we eventually got to the bottom of the shot it all I could see was John's torchlight
After releasing the DSMB and ascending I did find John again, he was back on board the boat. It turns out that he stayed by the shot and then went back up it after losing me but we did say that if we became seperated we would just come straight back up.
Max depth: 22.5 mtrs, Time 35 minutes
I decided not to do the second dive as I had begun to get pretty cold on the return journey and my nose had started running, which it is still doing now, and drove home. I just hope the guys had better luck today.
Thanks again to the Julie Ann and her crew and the YDers for a great day out filled with good jovial conversation and helping to make it a fun day out - even if the dive(s) was "interesting" and as Cpt Red Beard said in Black Adder - I'll be back, we'll all be back.
