Day at the lake September 18, 2006
Posted by chris in : Uncategorized , trackbackThe new wing is here and so the weekend was testing time. We spent Saturday morning messing about doing weighting and general kit faffing after my friend’s visit from Australia. She wanted to have a short dive with us so we lent her a drysuit (too big) and split one set of gear in half to make two single tanks setups.
All that needed to be re-configured and checked over.
Sunday we decided to just do a gentle dive to enjoy the reasonable vis and fish life at this time of year. Kelly wanted to do a couple of OOG drills as well and we agreed that we would “spring” these on one another without warning at moments of boredom.
I am very happy with the new wing (Custom Divers TDB) and the dive was pleasurable in the warmish, clearish water. There were loads of Perch and a couple of Pike. The smaller Pike has taken up residence beneath the boat pontoons and hopefully will be a feature there until the water cools. At one point he swam behind Kelly and was chasing the little Perch she was disturbing, using her as his own little hunting station.
The OOG drills were OK but the 1.5m hoses are too short on anything but a stab, so I need to get some 2m ones. This coming weekend is the practice dives for the cavern course then its off to France for the real thing. At last some diving to write about. I’ll get a film for the camera!!
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