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Lovely Lizard

louise — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:33:07 +0000

*This is a blog from last summer i didn’t post at the time as it wasn’t finished, but I might as well now* After a slighly stressful week C & I got the chance to join a bunch of friends for a couple of dives off Celtic Cat. The weather was pretty terrible, with some wind [...]

Wreck of the Persier

louise — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:58:06 +0000

A quick montage of some video clips taken on a dive on the wreck of the Persier in June. We dived from Endeavour, out of Plymouth and the wreck had its usual plethora of poor cod and bib, plus spider crabs, velvet swimmers and wrasse. The viz was very good and [...]

The Magic Garden

louise — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:32:35 +0000

Oh the joy! After a glorious weekend of diving in Plymouth it was back to work on Monday, but that didn’t mean no more diving. Nope. We had a dive planned after work - a little shore dive, either at the spot I had seen mating sea hares the week before, or [...]

Diveless Dover Disaster

louise — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:07:45 +0000

The weather was looking shocking, the ropes-off time had been changed to silly o’clock and the word from Andy the Coastie was the viz would be terrible due to cable-laying in the area…so why did we get up and traipse down to Dover on Saturday? I wish we hadn’t… The car is packed the night before [...]

Sunny Salcombe

louise — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:25:38 +0000

When Mark Powell posted trip down to Salcombe for 3 days diving wrecks in the 35-45m range I have to admit that my eye was taken by the write-up of the wrecks in the area, rather than a visit to Salcombe, which, to my shame, I only vaguely knew of or where it was. Given [...]