Derek’s Dive Domain

I went up to St Abbs for the first time a couple of weekends ago.  I responded to a message on YD from a BSAC school guy who had some spaces on a trip they were running, so I got together with Arfie and we headed on up into Scotland after work on the Friday evening.  We arrived really late, but Alison stayed up and was great as she showed us our room for the weekend.

The diving was nothing to write home about as we got 3 metres of vis on the first dive to 22 metres on Black Carr, and then the second dive to 16 metres on Wuddy Rocks was slightly better with the vis being between 3 and 5 metres.  We lost one dive each day to weather and conditions, but I did briefly get to see a dry St Abbs with sun shining over it, and it looks very picturesque.  I hope to go back there later in the year and do some more diving, possibly some shore dives, but I’m looking forward to using Billy’s boat Wavedancer some more as its a lovely large boat with lots of room and a lift.  Lifts are quite rare up north

It was a good weekend, could have had better diving but it was nice to see somewhere new, and hopefully I will be back soon.