Had a fantastic weekend diving.Weather as stunning.Mirror-calm sea, bright blue sky, brilliant sunshine but very frosty. SATURDAY A mate who works on the fish farm in Loch Kishorn took us out on the farm workboat for the day. Tons of deckspace, and the most entertaining method EVER of getting back on board... he winched us in our gear out of the water using the deck crane with canvas straps attached. Awesome fun! Dive #1 Kishorn Island ...
Just back from a day's festive diving with alcoholic wino Demon Dave who actually appeared to be sober! Weather was vile but got 2 good dives. Dive #1 Furnace Quarry Very rough by Loch Fyne standards but viz was surprisingly very good! Very steep boulder slop with lots of encrusting Protanthea Anemones and a few Peacock Worms, and not as much fishing line as normal.Not much mobile life although we found 2 cod, one ina hole and a small free-swimming ...
Had a lovely day out on the Fyne Pioneer.There were 4 of us diving, 2 inexperienced Ocean Divers and myself and my buddy, so we took a diver in each.I also had a non-diving friend come out on the boat who really enjoyed being at sea and seeing seals etc, so despite the freezing wind it was a very good day out. Dive #1 Kenmore Point Viz was pretty dire with a halocline extending to 15m, but we dived at a nice gently-sloping part with rocky ledges covered in seasquirts ...
Had a superb weekends diving off the Fyne Pioneer last weekend.Nice sunny skies and fairly calm seas, stayed in a fab B+B in Lochgilphead www.empirelodge.co.uk SATURDAY Dive #1 Wreck Of MV Margaret Niven Simon picked us up at Ardrishaig and we headed here for the 1st dive.really high tide and the reef was covered so Si dropped a shot in around 6m and in we went.Viz was pretty bad but the shot was very close to the steel cable running to the wreck ...
Just back from a great weekends diving off the Solstice.We stayed in the self-catering cottage next to Inchnadamph Hostel, arrived very late Friday night to find the owners had gone into the cottage and lit the log fire for us, which was lovely! SATURDAY Dive #1 Eilean Ard (North Face) Weather was pretty vile, rough seas and lashing rain so we dived sheltered Loch Laxford.Viz was around 6m so well down on what it normally is here but still a great ...
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