Andy's Diving Holiday

[Arfie]

Nina had issues with her ears as well as sea sickness, so she decided not to risk it.

Very wise, I've spent 4 weeks getting rid of the infection I've had (though I did do St Abbs during that time )

The cure for seasickness is easy - sit under a tree

Amazing Pix Andy, Wish i could fit inside a Wet Suit.

You'd have to be massive to not fit in one, even I can get in one.

If you aren't diving regularly especially in the winter, then despite what Andy says a wetsuit is perfectly fine, IF you get a good one. Mine is by Beaver (the jokes are obvious ) and they do fat sizes see HERE

If you are even a bit nesh or you intend diving in cold weather then a drysuit is the only answer but the good news is custom made ones for tellytubbie shaped real men are no more expensive than off the peg.

If you want to try again Gill, now is the best time to do it, by the time you've done your pool work it will be the height of summer and the water in Stoney Cove/Dosthill will be about as warm as it gets.

Arfie

 

[andywg]

and did it have a lazy XXXXs lift?

As noted, it did have a lift, and observe just how easy it makes getting out of the water in the below gif sped up to make diving look like it is still at the turn of the 20th century:

 

[Arfie]

You like your gifs don't you

Can't get on any boats in Farnes (even Sovereign) next weekend , but fortunately there's spaces at St Abbs, so I'm off there again on Wavedancer again (3rd time this year) which also has a fat boy lift,in fact it looks like the same type as you were on. Is Glad Tidings Billy Shiel's boat? if so I think it is the same or very similar, catamaran.

Arfie

 

[andywg]

You like your gifs don't you

Can't get on any boats in Farnes (even Sovereign) next weekend , but fortunately there's spaces at St Abbs, so I'm off there again on Wavedancer again (3rd time this year) which also has a fat boy lift,in fact it looks like the same type as you were on. Is Glad Tidings Billy Shiel's boat? if so I think it is the same or very similar, catamaran.

Arfie

Gotta love gifs!

Glad Tidings is Billy Shiel's (though we weren't taken out by him), however there are a multitude of Glad Tidings boats, so I would guess he has more than one.

I'm amazed you can't get on any boats from Seahouses. I don't think more than 2 boats per day went out with divers on the week I was there. Considering how crap the season is for them (the filling monkey at Sovereign was bemoaning that the first Saturday of July they finished pumping bottles by 6:30 instead of the 12:30 last year) they seem too willing to call off dives all day. On two days we had slightly iffy looking seas first thing in the morning which turned to a mill pond by the afternoon, yet they wouldn't even take us out for a second dive.

Were it not for young William taking out a BBC cameraman to video the Farne Islands for the One Show last Friday it was likely they would have tried to bin our Friday too.

 

[Arfie]

I'm amazed you can't get on any boats from Seahouses.

Me too, I know someone who cancelled south coast diving due to weather a couple of weekends ago, went upto Seahouses and got accomodation and boats no problem, but they are all fully booked. Maybe it's because it's into the school holidays or something?

Tried a few boats around Anglesea and North Wales and they were the same.

I know about them canning dives, in April I joined a bsac club in St Abbs and it was a little lumpy, but not bad by any stretch of the imagination and they canned the afernoon dive on both days, both of which had lovely flat seas. Mind you it was only about 3m viz and the lights went out below 10m.

Ah well, I'll have to try and hunt down a wolf fish or two rather than the seals.

Arfie