Heads Up For Monday..........just Saying

[kerching]

This coming Monday

Channel 5 9 pm

........my most favourite dive of all time........it may go some way to explaining why we do it, or as to why we are lacking between the ears!

 

[M107]

I'm not a diver but have always fancied giving it a go.

I'd like to dive on the war time wrecks at Truk lagoon.

 

[kerching]

A lot of my mates have dived Truk

i feel,with my current situation , it may have to wait a while.  But I WILL do it one day, one day!

had some nice dives at Dorothea Quarry in Wales

Scapa Flow is very interesting

Jackson and Woodhouse Reef in Straits of Tiran ( Red Sea) are excellent

actually ANY dive is good, just that some are F good!

 

[kerching]

Anybody watch this?

if you did, then this is me and my wing man diving tthe Arch a few years ago...

me walking like a gazelle to the entry point....bloke in front is carrying my two extra cylinders and all my safety/spare stuff.

Out of the water the kit weighs in at about 70kg and its no fun carrying it in 34 deg, C heat.

some of the kit is cobbled together out of various bits including some Volvo seat belt webbing, plastic Fly fishing reel

.......just diving

 

[Andy™]

some of the kit is cobbled together out of various bits including some Volvo seat belt webbing, plastic Fly fishing reel

i hope its bodged together at the correct torque!

didnt want it, but ive recorded it for later

 

[kerching]

i hope its bodged together at the correct torque!

didnt want it, but ive recorded it for later

Oh yes....all torqued up to the Baltic Sea Technical Divers minimum of " grunt tight and a nads "

It is frowned upon if bits fall off at 100m

 

[kme]

Watched tonight.

Respect for anyone who does that, who knows what they`re doing.

As for the rest - they become the statistics......

I KNOW I couldn`t; and wouldn`t want to....... if dive instructors can get dead in there - no much hope for us mere mortals.

 

[kerching]

The prog was very well edited for viewing purposes

There are still a few poor souls still on the bottom...the families want their loved ones to stay there as a reminder to others!

The prob with the majority of the people that dive the Arch is that they are only recreational divers certed to 18m. Or advanced divers certed to a max of 40m....and that is on Air.

Not many agencies will cert deeper than 40 m on Air. There exists a deep air course but it is of little value really.

nitrox will allow you to stay longer BUT go shallower.

We dive it on a starter gas of 32% oxygen, switc.hing to a helium/ nitrogen/ oxygen mix. Then doing numerous stops on the way back, getting back on to the 32% at about 30-35 m, then switching to 80% oxygen at about 6 m. We could easily be at 6m for 45 minutes!

There is a LOT of physics and maths involved in doing it right. Even though we usually have 2 dive computers each we also carry backup tables and bailout charts AND have to be able to,recalc our gases ifit all goes pants ( whilst underwater )

We are all qualified on a Martini ticket....any gas any where any depth ( open circuit )

It certainly focuses the mind

 

[steptoe]

not for me,  scary ****.!!!!!!!    [ BTW, I cant even float, never mind swim.! ]

but, a man to his sport,

I would suppose its very akin to a diver as doing the Isle of Man TT is to a bike racer.