Diving on the Far Mulberry 12th June 2010

This was my first dive with Mulberry Divers this year and it was my son Will’s first dive on the Far Mulberry. The weather today was great with a flat calm sea.

Sadly there was an incident as our dive boat approached the Far Mulberry and I was kitted ready to drop off the boat. Another diver appeared in the water and started screaming; sadly my first reaction was that it was a diving drill. Tone our skipper moved our boat toward the diver and I was able to grab her hand and hold her to our rib.

Tone was then able to get to the diver while her boat’s skipper came along side to pick her up. During the period we were holding her we learnt that it seemed that she dived off the boat early while her boat was manoeuvring and was hit by the prop. Her suit was cut but not her skin just badly bruised.

It appears that there was a misunderstanding between the skipper and the diver that resulted in the diver thinking that she had an instruction to dive off the boat.

Will and I went down the shot line but Will had problems with his ears and it took a bit of time to get to the bottom. At the bottom I realised that my cylinder has slip somehow and Will had to give it a shove back into the right place. I later found out this was the result of a rather cheap cylinder mesh that I had just fitted, it just would slip even with the BCD clip set up to be tight.

The viz was rather poor at the bottom of the chain about a meter, we followed the chain around the sea floor and then the rope to the Mulberry.

The viz at the bottom of the chain was just over a metre but the viz varied across the Far Mulberry 0.5m at its worst to 2.0 m at best. The plankton was the main culprit for the poor viz. A very popular site with 4 boats when I was there at 15:30, but I only came across two other diver pairs.

Will and I enjoyed our dive around the Mulberry, coming across dogfish, lobsters and looking into the hidey-holes, loads of bib and wrasse. We then came back up the chain at the end of the dive. It was a lovely dive as always with the Far Mulberry.

Watch the video via this link: Diving on the Far Mulberry 12th June 2010

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