Derek’s Dive Domain

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Archive for January, 2007

A Review of my diving year, 2006 styleee

Posted: Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 @ 12:26 am in Diving | 3 Comments »

Total Dives last year: 73
Freshwater Dives: 41
Saltwater Dives: 32
Of those 73 dives, all but 2 were arranged either directly through YD, or indirectly by arranging with other YDers.
Stoney Cove 35
Tenerife 24
Gildenburgh 4
Plymouth 3
Swanage 3
Brighton 2
Covenham Reservoir 1
London Aquarium 1
Total dive time last year 48 hours and 38 minutes or 0.55% of the year spent underwater!!
An […]

Last Gasp

Posted: Sunday, January 21st, 2007 @ 2:27 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Its New Years Eve, and we’ve arranged to meet up at Stoney for one last dive in 2006.  This is all Freeflow’s fault, and its pretty chilly, as I stand in the car park kitting up.  I’m waiting for Gareth to arrive, so that we can check out his weighting problems from the diver the […]

Well, it was meant to be a wreck dive in Brighton

Posted: Sunday, January 21st, 2007 @ 2:10 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Well, as a post Christmas pudding dive, it was meant to be two dives out of Brighton Marina onto the wreck of the Pentrych.  All seemed great, the weather was clear and dry ,and the sea was an absolute millpond.  I have never seen the sea so flat, not even in summer.
So we load up […]

Diving in London Aquarium

Posted: Friday, January 12th, 2007 @ 10:15 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Every now and again, being a member of the Historical Diving Society throws up a chance to dive somewhere unusual.  These places have normally been rivers, docks and reservoirs, which can be quite interesting dives as they are not the sorts of places that you normally dive in scuba gear, and when you are diving […]

Another night dive

Posted: Friday, January 12th, 2007 @ 9:49 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Its November 15th, and its time for another night dive in Stoney Cove, and another chance to practice getting used to night diving, something that I am decidedly short of experience on.  I head over to the Cove after work, and am diving with Freeflow again, so meet up in the car park, or in […]