Diving Chesil Cove 27th May 2012

I have been a bit slack with keeping up this blog with my dives, but that being said diving has been rather slow this year with the very poor weather.

Diving in Chesil Cove always has a difficult entry and exit to the sea. The viz was rather poor for Chesil, which got worse on the second dive. I think that this was due to the silt that must have washed into the sea during the previous weeks of heavy rain.

Not a lot of life due to the poor viz but quite a few spider crabs! The underwater surge was the worse I have ever come across.  The underwater cricket was a first for me though!

As you can see the final exit was an event!

You can link to the youtube site by the link Diving Chesil Cove 27th May 2012

Diving on the Bembridge Ledges 16th May 2012

This was a drift dive on the Bembridge Ledges off the Isle of Wight, sadly with not a lot of 'drift' going on.

There was some life underwater apart from Ali, my dive buddy, and myself. There was a dogfish I scared off but I think that the problem is that the bulk of the sea life is below the 10 metre level.

I have in the past used my compass to head eastward to the deeper water and the faster flowing current rather than the 7 Metre deep dropping off point. On this dive we hit our deepest point of the dive at 10.4 Metres at the end of the dive. Ali tends to feel the cold and with a drift dive there is very little diver movement and with a sea temperature of 11C it was a little chilly so this was only a 41 minute dive.

This was Ali's 300th dive and my 202nd dive. Great fun!

A little bit of a worry at the start as we were in the water on a lobster pot line!

These evening dives after work  are the best! A complete chill out after a day at work and hopefully a lovely sunset as one reaches the surface.

Or click on the link to view the video on YouTube Diving on the Bembridge Ledges 16th May 2012