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A Scene of Tranquility......Quickly Heading To Madness As TigerDive Arrive
The Divers Start To Arrive
Or Was That Biatch!!
With A Smiley Face
Along With Their Dive Bitches
Fishes,
Fishes....
More Fishes....
Not More Fishes....
Meet Luke, The Youngest
Thank God, No More Fishes!!!
He's the one without the beard!
Honest he is over 21!!
And the biggest kid of them all, Neil
Then There's Pete
What a Really Fun Saturday!!
Well after a bit of a rocky start to a sunny Saturday Morning I met up with Neil, Luke & Peter at Capernwray. I had done my PPB with Neil and Luke a couple of months ago. All three were here to have a practice and play with new kit after horrible 30 degree water in the USA!! Also to support Linda (Mum) doing her AOW.
Where to go first, we all had our little laminated maps, planned our route and headings down to the african queen and then over to podsnap and then see where takes our fancy. Neil was feeling confident as I had been volunteered to take the lead at the start with Peter, but once i got to the african queen I thought he's the one with the fancy new compass he can take us to podsnap, well that was an interesting swim, i never knew they mounted podsnap on top of a big metal box?? No they didn't it was the helicopter. reason for the 100m detour in a circle "This compass can't be working" Like no ones ever used that one before!! :-) We carried on after a quick nip through 'the caves' and an inspection and photoshoot at the helicopter we headed back to the 6m shelf funny how when you get lost in the same place twice you seem to find the same place the 5m mound always seems to attract me when I'm lost just like the last time I navigated Capernwray, air was a bit thin for a couple of us so it was up to the surface and a long surface swim back!! Out for a brew and some stunning apple sponge cake (care of Mum!)
The second dive, well we knew that all our compasses weren't working so thought a straight line was best, Shergar-Dreamer-Orca, sounded good, we ambled round keeping a watchful eye on our dodgy compases adn I thought we should have seen something by now then the shelf at 10m ended oops, we'd done it again we're lost!! oh well we thought lets follow it down and see what we can find, another 10 minutes still nothing after over 30 minutes. Time to come up and get our bearings, How the hell we did it we don't know but we ended up against the far wall behind candida II. We thought we would have a quick chat and break on the surface and then swim to the bouy for Orca and drop on the line, no way we could miss it this time!! then we had a gentle swim back in via the horses and take a few pics of the monster trout! before we hit the flask again!
Dive 3 - We'd done most corners of the puddle already so what next, As Neil had his new SMB we thought a quick lesson on deployment was in order (did I forget to say He lost it on the last dive having never even inflated it, Fortunately Mum(Linda) was on search and recovery so she found it for him) then over to the cannon and maybe even the gnome garden. The SMB deployment went well even if peter did drift off a little on his ascent then down and over to the cannon, surprise surprise we missed it, we did find some old car though on route to the other side yet again we screwed up the navigation so we thought safe bet follow the wall back round to the african queen (air permitting) off we pottered at 18m but air was getting a bit thin so I suggested up to 6m and carry on round. Then Disaster strikes, well not exactly but it got your attention, at 6m Pete's tank tap started leaking a good stream of bubbles. Time for all that pool practice to come in to effect. I put him onto my octopus while we shut his air down to try reset it if possible, but to no avail so I called it and brought him up on my air just in case (Better safe than sorry) and then surface swim back.
Overall a really good day was had by all, I'm not sure who were the youngest kids in the bunch but we had fun.
Many Thanks to Neil, Luke, Peter for a great day and Jo for Surface support. I Hope all went well for Linda on her last AOW dives on Sunday
