Due to the strong south westerly winds we had to find a sheltered site, so decided on Battery Buoy and we made slack water too! Of course it was dark below 25m but the water column was quite clear, green but clear, around 3-5m but a good 5-8m above 25m and lighter and clearer. My buddy […]
A very suprisingly good dive on the Persier on Bank Holiday Whitsun Monday. Strong westerly winds was forecast from lunchtime but we made it out there and back albeit very slowly on a lumpy sea on the return journey. From the moment we went below the buoy on the shotline the sea was blue with […]
8 divers and a cox (Paul Grainger) went to the East Pinnacle at Eddystone – 22nd May 2019. Great sunshine and a dead calm sea. We went down the shot in slack water, turned east over the kelpy rocks in 15m or so and then down into a gulley at 25m. The views began to […]
After much deliberation and checking tides, wind and more importantly, the VIS reports, we finally went diving today, and the chosen site was a South East Pinnacle at Eddystone to try to avoid the dark and thick plankton. The vis was as we hoped, clearer, cleaner and not so thick. The Spring Tide slack was […]
It’s not often that you end up on a completely different wreck to that which you intended but, much to our surprise, that’s what happened today. The plan was to dive the SS Birgitte so we set the shot up on the site shown in the GPS in the Tornado. Once on the bottom it […]