Derek’s Dive Domain

Random musings of a diver, biker and hockey player…

Archive for September, 2006

Bouyancy, Bouyancy, Bouyancy

Posted: Friday, September 29th, 2006 @ 8:17 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Last weekend saw the long awaited Peak Performance Bouyancy course at Stoney Cove. Myself and Gareth (Spacehopper) arrived at Stoney Cove just before 7.30 in the morning, and dumped the cars on the top car park and wandered down to the bottom car park to meet up with our instructor for the day. […]

Wrecks, Drifts and Piers…

Posted: Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 @ 8:04 pm in Diving | No Comments »

What happens if you take one wreck, one drift current and a pier ?
You get a great weekends diving in Swanage, Dorset - thats what!
To bring my diving blog up to date, this is the report-ette that I put on Yorkshire Divers after our weekends diving down at Swanage in Dorset about 4 weeks ago.
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Stoney Strikes again…

Posted: Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 @ 7:55 pm in Diving | No Comments »

This is a report of a couple of dives that I did with Freeflow (David Morris) about 4 weeks ago on a Wednesday evening in Stoney Cove… hopefully he doesn’t mind me posting his report here, as it appeared on Yorkshire Divers…
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Diving with Derek [Ratcliffe] always seems like a good idea as […]

You Missed the Stanegarth ?? TWICE ????!

Posted: Friday, September 15th, 2006 @ 8:43 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Following on from my diving down in Plymouth, ”Stoney Cove? in August ? Why?” a question that I actually asked myself on the way to this dive at 6:30 in the morning.  Having had nice leisurely starts on the sea dives, suddenly having to get up at crack of sparrowfart to go to a quarry doesn’t seem […]

Salty at last

Posted: Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 @ 10:35 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Well the weekend finally arrived and I met up with Sue and Frankie to travel down to Plymouth. We made pretty good time down the motorways considering we had a caravan in tow, and made it to the campsite by late afternoon/early evening, and pitched the tent and got settled in. I’m diving […]