Derek’s Dive Domain

Random musings of a diver, biker and hockey player…

Archive for May, 2006

Dive No’s 54 and 55 - Gildenburgh

Posted: Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 @ 12:55 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Date: Sunday 28/5/06
Location: Gildenburgh Water
Buddies: Beardy (YD)
Max Depth: 17.5 and 19.2 Metres
Dive Time: 27 minutes both dives
Water Temp: 11′C and 10′C
Total Dive Time Logged to Date: 32:05
 
After swapping a few PM’s on YD, I had arranged to meet up with Paul at Gildenburgh as it was sort of middle ground between Ipswich and Leicester.  I have only dived at […]

Dive No. 53 - Stoney Cove

Posted: Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 @ 10:46 am in Diving | No Comments »

Date: Wednesday 17/5/06
Location: Stoney Cove
Buddies: Chas49, Calski and Freeflow (YD)
Max Depth: 6 Metres
Dive Time: 15 minutes
Water Temp: 10′C
Total Dive Time Logged to Date: 31:11
 A bit of a nightmare evening this one for me.  I had agreed to meet at Stoney with the gang after work, but due to getting away from work not quite as early as I wanted, […]

Dive No’s 51 & 52 - Stoney Cove

Posted: Friday, May 5th, 2006 @ 11:49 am in Diving | 1 Comment »

Date: Wednesday 3/5/06
Location: Stoney Cove
Buddy: Chas49 (YD)
Max Depth: 6.2 Metres
Dive Time: Dive 51: 33 minutes   Dive 52: 31 minutes
Water Temp: A balmy 10′C
Total Dive Time Logged to Date: 30:56
 
Its a Wednesday night and its the right week for Stoney Cove to be open in the evening, so myself and Charles arranged to do a couple of […]

Book: Shadow Divers

Posted: Thursday, May 4th, 2006 @ 11:59 am in Diving | No Comments »

Oh no, not another book review on this, I hear you cry!
Not really.  More a case of noting that I’ve just finished reading this after it being recommended on various websites and forae etc, so I decided to take the plunge and bought myself a copy from Ebay.

I found it a very interesting read, although […]

Dive No’s 49 & 50 - Stoney Cove

Posted: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 @ 11:10 pm in Diving | No Comments »

These took place on 14th April, but I am only just getting around to catching up with my writing and getting logged on here.  I met up with Chas49 and Calski (To use their YD names) at Stoney in the morning, the plan being to just plop into the water and do some general plodding […]