With weather conditions improving and Dewi being reminded during the Wednesday pool sessions by the clubs current keenest diver (?) that he was the organiser a plan was hatched. Firstly it meant a quick text message to the Manager Robin who had secretly hoped that Dewi had forgotten. Weather forecasts were for bright sunshine and slight northerly winds – with the promised good weather it seemd like a good idea to have a dip in the salty stuff rather than the bland tasting fresh water of the quarry. Was Mike’s boat available for the hoards of expected divers of course it was – was it needed, sadly no.
It was a one dive day due to slack being 11.30am and given we are now into limited daylight hours – with a respectful meeting time of 10am at Castell March it allowed everyone opportunity to go to church if they so wished.
A total of five Divers turned out Robin, Dewi, Andrew, David and Mike – with Wyn off on a Cultural !! visit to Estonia it was left to Hywel to launch us. Preparations went well given this was the first club boat outing since August bank holiday until Robin shouted “anybody got an insert for my 15 litre tank”, thankfully the ever stocked Nissan belonging to Mike came to the rescue.
Launching went well until we attempted to start the engine, all that could be heard was a whimper from and engine which seemed to have already been in hibernation. Robin set upon the task to use all of his mechanical knowledge and gave the casing a bit of a slap and hey presto the engine fired into life.
A dive on Cilan head was planned and having raced there in no time only to find a dim and uninviting green sea awaiting. No takers there so it was decided to return to Carreg y Trai. It was decided to throw the Saga pair in first with Andrew accompanying in an effort to bring down the average age. Surpringly Mike lost the other two or was it the other two that lost Mike, with poor viz the dive was probable average at best with no scallops for Mike.
Robin and Dewi decided to try diving the Prawn wreck as Carreg y Trai now had another dive boat present. With no shot line it was going to be a challenge to find the wreck underwater let alone for the Cox of the club boat who circled for an age it seemed. The command came and both divers flopped off and dive bombed to the sea bed ASAP – no wreck to be found, a short swim against the tide found them face to face with the Wreck. Poor viz to be found nevertheless the Wreck was navigated several times with good life including shoals of fish, Lobster and crabs to be found.
With all dives completed we returned with the days diving completed at about 2.30pm. Big thanks to Hywel for launching Sea Wasp which has only third of a tank of petrol remaining. Dewi.
