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Plymouth Diving….

Posted: Monday, June 30th, 2008 @ 6:32 pm in Diving | No Comments »

OK, as the other two groups that dived Plymouth this weekend have already filed their trip reports, then I suppose I had better file mine too
Friday afternoon saw me driving to Milton Keynes to meet up with Chas49 in order to carshare down to Plymouth. Kit safely stored in his tardis of a Nissan, […]

St Abbs

Posted: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:28 am in Diving | No Comments »

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 […]

Ten years apart…

Posted: Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 @ 10:21 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Well, last Sunday I went diving in Dosthill for the first time in ten years.  Not because I hadn’t wanted to go for ten years, more a case of I hadn’t had anyone to dive there with, as a lot of people turn their noses up at Dosthill.  Sure it doesn’t have the greatest viz, […]

Long but not boring dives in Stoney

Posted: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 @ 9:59 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Next up after my holiday is the seemingly traditional followup dives in Stoney Cove.  Some would say its a bit of a comedown after Ibiza, but I just like to keep wet, and its the only dives in the (almost a) month since I got back into the UK as I have been unable to […]

Warm and wetsuit in Ibiza

Posted: Monday, October 22nd, 2007 @ 8:30 pm in Diving | No Comments »

(I have included the photos as links on this report as they are big files.  Please click in the appropriate places to see the full pictures.  Credit: Lynne Marshall.) 
I managed to book a really cheap deal for a weeks holiday in Ibiza back in June, so Monday October 1st found my sister and I at Luton airport waiting […]

Make Mine a Danish…

Posted: Monday, September 24th, 2007 @ 8:28 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Well three or four weeks ago, I was on holiday visiting a diving friend who works out in Denmark, and lives over the bridge in Sweden.  So I took my dive gear with me on the Easyjet flight in the hope that I would get some diving whilst over there.
My hold luggage was bang on […]

The Best Things Come to Those Who Wait…

Posted: Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 @ 7:22 pm in Diving | 2 Comments »

OK, so I have had a pretty miserable time of it this summer, most of the diving has been cancelled by the weather and then last weekend just capped it all.  However, I do believe in the method that suggests that things will come good eventually, and hopefully this will be the case pretty soon…
As […]

Floods, boats and automoboats ?

Posted: Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 @ 11:12 am in Diving | No Comments »

The way it is going, I could design an automoboat and get rich quick, but I can’t be bothered, so it ain’t gonna happen.
 This was my weekend report to YD…
 An Interesting Weekend
OK, my diving this year has mostly consisted of blown out dives, like so many of you, and it was with some hope that […]

Here is the Weather…

Posted: Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 @ 11:24 am in Diving, Motorcycling | No Comments »

Oh boy, has 2007 been a terrible year for the weather so far.  We had that one good week in May and apart from a couple of odd days it has been so wet, and dull that it makes winter look like a spring day in the park.  Or something like that.
As a diver and […]

1 Man, 2 Days, 380 Miles, 100 pounds and 0 Dives

Posted: Monday, June 25th, 2007 @ 9:27 pm in Diving | No Comments »

Bloody Typical
Where my dives went this weekend :
Last summer, Lou told me I needed to get more salt in my diet, so I made an effort to put some money aside, and to do a few less dives at Stoney to try this idea out I sometimes wonder why I listened
Last […]