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Ding recently accused me of living like Howard Hughes, couped up in my own little interior world behind a computer (or is that more like Leo Di Caprio covered in sh!t in his private cinema in The Aviator?) Anyway, I admit, I haven't been diving much. In fact, the last time was 1st October at CA!!!
Excuses? Yeah ... the flu, headcold, family commitments, bad weather …
Yep, I confess, I was put off by the bleedin hurricane on Sunday and the general reports of zero viz …
Anyway, I’ll be back in the water soon enough, because I really enjoy winter diving. Especially on clear January mornings down Loch Fyne.
Do we all dive through the winter, or do you hang up your fins until April?
Yeah, I'll keep on diving if the weather lets me..... over this side its usually blown out and the viz resembles a pint of Guinness. So we then head over to Loch Long where Conger Alley resembles a pint of Guinness too (after all the trainees have been in :) ), but hey, al least we get a chance to get in the water....
gogs
Lizardland
05-12-06, 10:51
I really enjoy diving in the winter, probably more so in the summer as it's quieter. I don't think conditions are much different underwater, but I just enjoy being outside in winter -- Furnace Quarry in the snow, driving through Rest and Be Thankful in a blizzard :)
Airmonster
05-12-06, 14:30
I try to keep going all through the winter. Some excellent dives in Loch Fyne in January. You know it's going to be cold so you dress accordingly. Just need to protect the kit from the cold air. Not quite as enjoyable when it bucketing down with rain like last night (seemed a good idea at the time). Makes kiting up a pain. Once in the water though the weather is pretty irrelevant.
/Colin. :D
Some of my non diving Friends laugh when I say "don't fancy diving tonight cause its raining"
im with ding, i dont like the rain.
more to the point i dont like getting changed down to my undies at the side of the road, which always attracts a sudden volume of traffic, the heavens open, your soaking & freezing.
i dont mind diving in the rain.
i dive all year round.
dive granny
05-12-06, 20:59
Some of my non diving Friends laugh when I say "don't fancy diving tonight cause its raining"
My newsagent always laughs at me when I say I don't like the rain when diving. It is fine under water, just don't like hanging about in the rain or getting changed in the rain!:( I qualified on the 29th December 2002 (famously after 31 dives and 20 months!) so I like winter diving.:)
Lizardland
05-12-06, 22:50
Gore Tex is a fabulous invention and well worth the investment :)
Gas Guzzler
05-12-06, 23:51
I don't mind winter too much.
I'd like to get a small van, but think I'll have to settle for an estate car.
I'm surprised how many people don't take their drysuit off for surface intervals. All that evaporation must lose you a lot of heat.
Just like the fire triangle, where you need the 3 corners (fuel, oxygen, ignition) to have fire and removing any one stops a fire; There are 3 sides to the hypothermia triangle, (Cold, wind and wet). Remove one and you have a good chance of living, remove 2 and you will be comfortable, so get dry, put on a hat and stay out of the wind.
GG
......or stay in your warm cosy bed :D
I'd like to get a small van....GG
No chance, not in a million years.
I don't mind winter too much.
I'd like to get a small van, but think I'll have to settle for an estate car.
I'm surprised how many people don't take their drysuit off for surface intervals. All that evaporation must lose you a lot of heat.
Just like the fire triangle, where you need the 3 corners (fuel, oxygen, ignition) to have fire and removing any one stops a fire; There are 3 sides to the hypothermia triangle, (Cold, wind and wet). Remove one and you have a good chance of living, remove 2 and you will be comfortable, so get dry, put on a hat and stay out of the wind.
GG
Fuel , O2 and heat. You dont need ignition to start a fire.
Fuel , O2 and heat. You dont need ignition to start a fire.
heat is the ignition source of the fire triangle.
Guzzler...what type of van would you like?
if you were allowed one.. that is :p
dive granny
06-12-06, 22:08
Remember, if you are keeping warm in the car of someone who was kind enough to give you a lift, not to spill minestrone soup all over their car seat:o
Lizardland
06-12-06, 23:54
I'd like to get a small van, but think I'll have to settle for an estate car.
Get a Defender, tons of space in the back and cheap to run.
I'm surprised how many people don't take their drysuit off for surface intervals. All that evaporation must lose you a lot of heat.
It really does make a difference if it is windy. It's even worse in a wetsuit.
Fuel , O2 and heat. You dont need ignition to start a fire.
Please don't correct Mr Industrial Chemist on a Chemical Plant about fire stuff/safety. Do you have any idea about how many exhilarating courses he has been on about the subject..........yawn
Do you have any idea about how many exhilarating courses he has been on about the subject..........yawn
I could hazard a guess
craigdiver
08-12-06, 13:46
Yeah, I'll keep on diving if the weather lets me..... over this side its usually blown out and the viz resembles a pint of Guinness. So we then head over to Loch Long where Conger Alley resembles a pint of Guinness too (after all the trainees have been in :) ), but hey, al least we get a chance to get in the water....
gogs
Yes, the forth and east coast up our way has been dreadfull recently, tried to escape to St Abbs last weekend but viz <2m!
Doing a stocked resevoir tommorrow, taking no chances!!!!
CraigDiver
craigdiver
08-12-06, 13:51
I could hazard a guess
Cmon, don't start a heated argument
Oh dear, I will leave now:rolleyes:
CraigDiver