This
was a second attempt to dive in some really unusual places. Roger and Tony own
and run the fishing boat Kll, their problem is the loss of a string of lobster
pots!
Anyway
they have a number of lost pots and hoped that we could retrieve them. Last
year we failed to retrieve any pots but we had hi hopes for this year.
The
Kll is not a dive boat and therefore we needed to sort out a plan to carry out
the search and the location of the string of pots. The Kll has a satnav system
that can record the position of the boat down to the nearest metre.
Therefore
like last year we had a meeting with Roger the skipper to plan out each phase
of the dive:
The
diving period
Dive
entry
Search
technique
Lobster
pot recovery technique.
Dive
recovery
Emergency
measures.
The
search techniques proposed by Roger was the same as last year excellent with
line being laid between two shot lines that would be in the same position as
the missing lobster pots. Therefore all we had to do was to follow the newly
laid marker line between the shot lines along the bottom until we found a pot line.
Like
last year during the dive I would record, by video, the seabed to discover the
reason for the snagged and cut lobster pot lines.
Dan
and I are what I would call experience divers and have dived in virtually zero
viz without getting lost! Even so we did not undertake this dive lightly and
both of us carried our normal complete set safety and retrieval equipment.
This
time we located a pot line and pots right away tied them to the main line and
un-snagged the pot lines. Sadly
as can been seen by the video our knots were not up to the mark with heaving up
a string of pots as we lost the string.
We
repeated the dive but the shot line and the marker line were laid going in the
opposite direction with an overlap where we could the pots. This
time we just cut the pots loose and tied each one on separately and success we
pulled up two pots.
To view the video from the YouTube website click on the link: Lobster Pot Diving
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