Written by Marnie
After UBUCs AGM night, 6 divers dragged themselves into consciousness ready for a day of diving…well except for James, who demonstrated an admirable dedication to sleep by completely ignoring his alarms and briefly existing in a parallel universe where diving simply wasn’t happening. Eventually retrieved, the team assembled at Vobster ready for some pre Skomer depth progression diving.
The day began with the usual ritual, standing around in varying states of thermal regret while pretending the water didn’t look that cold. Kit was assembled and the first wave of divers were a go.
Nick and Jack headed in first descending into the pit to inspect the car at around 28m. Some great mind compass skills from Jack lead them onto see the helicopter, boat and in Nicks words “Like a big wreck of something”. The dive was finished off at a safety stop, eight consecutive games of rock, paper, scissors all of which somehow ended in draws. Statistical anomaly or elite synchronisation? We may never know.
Marnie and Amelie submerged for their first dive of the day, exploring pretty much everything Vobster had to offer, the tunnel, metal pipes, plane, car and wheelhouse. A rogue weight belt made a bid for freedom, slipping just enough to introduce the exciting possibility of an unplanned rapid ascent. A quick save prevented the belt from achieving its dreams of independence, and dignity was mostly preserved.
Tilly and James then headed in descending on the car to get James depth progressed to 25m, they swiftly swam on to see the caravan and by James poor navigation the helicopter was missed. The wheelhouse was found, Tilly told James to swim inside in which he thought he’d fit through the window…he did not. Once realising there was a door that Tilly originally told James to swim through all was explored concluding their dive.
After lunch, it was made aware that Jack’s wing decided it had its own agenda by continuously self inflating so the decision was made to swap out for the trusted spare BCD. Amelie, Tilly and Jack headed in together, depth progressing Amelie to 25m. Jester Henge was discovered when it loomed into view in a mildly terrifying fashion. At the safety stop, concern arose and shocked faces were made when Jack signalled his air left…40 bar. Once surfaced it was made apparent that the gauge had simply chosen chaos and the reading was wrong and all was well.
Finally, Marnie, Nick and James entered the water, descending onto the tunnel with a plan in mind. The helicopter, car and plane where explored, lots of videos where taken and much fun was had. DSMB practice occurred from all 3 divers, some more inflated than others. Finishing with a 4min safety stop, dance battles occurred, games were played, bubbles were blown.
Yay diving!
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