Derek’s Dive Domain

Random musings of a diver, biker and hockey player…

Archive for February, 2006

Dive No. 47 - Stoney Cove

Posted: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006 @ 11:22 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Date: Saturday 25/2/06
Location: Stoney Cove
Buddy: Chas49 (YD)
Max Depth: 20.4 metres
Dive time: 31 minutes total duration, 22 mins bottom time
Water Temp: 4 ‘C
Total Dive Time Logged to Date: 28:21
Another nice leisurely dive with Charles from YD at the Freeze Your bits off gig.  After arriving late, I got suited up in the top car park and […]

Recurve - Mad Bugger ™

Posted: Sunday, February 26th, 2006 @ 4:35 pm in Diving | 1 Comment »

Phil, or Recurve as he is known on YD, did a dive at the Stoney Gig clad in just a shortie, in order to raise funds for MND sufferers and research. He managed to do 17 minutes on the six meter ledge before succombing to the cold, which is about 16 minutes longer than […]

YD Stoney Cove “Freeze Yer Bits Off” Gig 2006

Posted: Sunday, February 26th, 2006 @ 4:26 pm in Diving | 2 Comments »

Well, I had a great time at Stoney Cove yesterday, meeting up with lots of YD’ers that I haven’t had a chance to meet before.  After hosting LisaR for the night on Friday, we got up at 7, and after a fairly leisurely hour, loaded the cars and headed over to Stoney, which is fortunately […]

Blimey, welcome to Winsville

Posted: Sunday, February 26th, 2006 @ 4:17 pm in Hockey and Ice Hockey | No Comments »

Shock horror, but I actually got a win at Field Hockey today, with a 5-2 victory against the Exiles, a team made up of former and current (but living away) members of my Saturday club.  After a tight first half which ended with us 2-1 up.  The second half was just as tight, but each […]

A Weighty Issue

Posted: Monday, February 20th, 2006 @ 11:46 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Well, I popped into the shop at Stoney on my way home from work today and bought a couple of kilos of lead shot. The last time I dived I was quite a bit underweighted and couldn’t stay down at 6 metres after a dive down to the Stanegarth, which caused a problematic ascent […]

A New Diver ?

Posted: Sunday, February 19th, 2006 @ 9:21 pm in Diving | No Comments »

I’ve had some news from a friend of mine, Steve, who lives down in Gosport. He came to the NEC Dive Show last year, and He was talked into going into the Try Dive Pool.  (I was playing with the rebreathers at the time).  He came out with the biggest grin on […]

Geeky

Posted: Sunday, February 19th, 2006 @ 9:13 pm in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Hmmm… well I’ve managed to sort out the links problem at least.  I was putting the // the wrong way around and it was trying to link through the host site instead of direct to the website I was linking.  Silly me !     Must have had a bit of a brainstorm.
If you happen to be […]

Score Draw

Posted: Sunday, February 19th, 2006 @ 8:41 pm in Hockey and Ice Hockey | No Comments »

Well, today was a hockey day. Following on from my Saturday teams 5-0 stuffing in Market Harborough yesterday, I played for my Sunday friendly team over in Nottingham, and we played out a good 3-3 draw with a team called Chestnuts who are one of the better teams that we play on a Sunday. […]

Messed Up ?

Posted: Saturday, February 18th, 2006 @ 11:24 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Yes, I know the site is a bit messed up at the moment, you’ll just have to bear with me as its all new technology to me, never having had one of these before.
I’m currently trying to add some links into the indexing, but they aren’t working, but I am about to get ready to […]

Hello world!

Posted: Thursday, February 16th, 2006 @ 6:03 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Welcome to my little blog thingy.  You thought this was going to be the standard Welcome to the Deepstop welcome page, but its not. HAH!  I altered it!  Not much, I grant you, but I did it all by myself
Anyway, the plan here is to post some random stuff, and even talk about […]