 The weekend weather could not have been better. Hot and Sunny with sea conditions like a millpond. Although not pre-booked we managed to get a dive arranged for the Saturday afternoon. Sue and Barry had a lovely casual drift dive with good visibility with Keith Dick and Les diving the Kyarra which Keith was amazed at the way Les's fins waved in the water whilst chasing lobsters. The dives on Saturday were a really good lead up to the Sunday Dive. Everyone really enjoyed them.
On Sunday we were met on the pier by Jo, Keith and Margarita for the day's dive. The first dive was on the Fleur de Lys. This being the first 25 metre dive for Barry, Sue was determined to get him to 25 metres by pushing him into the sand. Jo took his camera to take full advantage of his dive but when reaching the wreck found that his batteries had gone on the camera. No pictures there then. On the wreck were conger eels, crabs, lobster and various fish. There was lots of life to view. And to round off the first dive, on the boat trip in we had a display of the red arrows which completed a really enjoyable morning.
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 The evening of Wednesday 18th August was very wet. We were recovering an anchor and a grapple from the Thames. The dive team for recovery was Keith Lewis, my backup safety diver and me, the recovery diver. The surface team was Keith Dick and Jo Dick. Guess what, the surface team got wetter than the dive team.
On my way to the anchor I came across a rope and followed it to discover the grapple. It was caught between two large flagstones and had turned with one prong under the stone. I released it and recovered it to the surface. I was aware of the stones on the bottom because I had positioned the entry ladder. So the first dive was done without fins.
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Yes I know............. it's only August and I have put this up for September; well because it's a bit late in the month to run this for August I thought I would be early (for a change)!
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