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Hopefully we’ll get somewhere with a bit of wildlife this year. Prob not whalesharks but seals with a bit of luck
Nice photo 
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Managed a few Indian Ocean encounters over the years, mostly snorkelling.
Well no Whale sharks, manta rays or anything that exotic but the Sturgeon were being friendly today
Descending down the line to the plane we could see them circling - if you didn’t know they were sturgeon it could have been a bit worrying
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Had a ‘fuzzy’ and chilly dive at our local site in Eccleston - The Delph. Very silty but saw plenty of fish including some big shoals of 20 or so fish, plus 4 sturgeon, some big perch and a couple of fat Koi
That’s a 4000 lumen torch
I think the russians may have invaded…
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That’s an old saracen fighting vehicle, ironically we sold a shit load of their replacements to Ukraine after Russia took Crimea.
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Serious sturgeon
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Do they feed it small children?
Are there sturgeon lurking in every site you dive?
Are they Russian spies?
I think we should be told
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She’s a bit small
Couple of nice dives back at the usual site today. Saw a wee albino sturgeon (not the grumpy one further up) and a huge, sleeping diamond back. Photos of them later
A video of me failing to gracefully go through one of the boats…
I also tried a change of kit. Usually I use a BCD like this - it inflates up the back but also around the sides:
Mine is (of course) black cos its ex military 
but today I tried a Backplate and Wing where the inflation bit is all at the back. It makes a big difference in terms of how you lie in the water and how much more freedom of movement your arms have
it may prove to be an expensive ‘play’
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That second pic looks like a very big alligator. Stay safe.
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Love it 
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3 of us went to Capernwray today.
We saw most of the bigger Sturgeon who are getting much more inquisitive, but we also saw this shy little fella
Plus a few of the usual (and not so usual) attractions
And a video into the deepest part of the quarry at just over 20m
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One eventful, and one relaxing dive yesterday. Sarah has been trying to reduce the weight she takes (more weight needs more air to counterbalance, which then needs dumping on ascent and replacing on descent, so less weight is good).
Yesterday on dive 1 she didnt use her weight belt as we thought she’d transferred it all to her BCD. She hadn’t and unbeknownst to us was 2Kg light. I gave her 0.5Kg of mine which got her through her initial descent but mid dive she spotted a Sturgeon and, as is often the way, forgot to breath and promptly ascended. It was from 6m so not dangerous but she was wound up and now couldn’t descend, so we had a long surface swim…
As we were de-kitting she twigged what had happened so we put the right weight in and on dive 2 all was well.
i think she was still a bit grumpy though 
Visibility was quite challenging in places
Quite foggy on the bottom at times too
New RAF helicopter crew equipment is a bit OTT
Some really noticeable thermoclines yesterday, shallow water was 20 degrees, down to 15/16 in the deeper bits, and some weird , bright green, plant
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