His mate teaches rebreathers and organisers trips round the world, not loads, but a few a year
I think on one of the Scapa trips they didn’t get one dive in due to weather. Expensive way doing nothing
Guess that’s the risk of UK diving
Indeed
I lost a lad I knew at Scapa, the name always chills me. Not a place I would wish to dive, even if I had the ability.
Yes, my friend did a week’s diving in Norway, one of the divers died a couple of days after leaving shore. The boat came straight back… The village/town were brilliant and set up specialist councillors for them. Still haunts him, and he hasn’t dived much since
We had a diver from our club die at the local training centre, we’ve never heard what happened.
It’s obviously an activity that carries a level of risk but it’s probably still safer than crossing the road. We dive well within our limits and whilst that doesn’t guarantee safety it’s as safe as we can make it.
I’d imagine the two main risks at Scapa are getting trapped whilst exploring a wreck, and misjudging the depth as I think most of the ships are around 40m which is borderline for recreational (as opposed Technical) diving. So people either go too deep and/or run out of air. Rapidly surfacing from 40m is not likely to end well.
Yes, he lost his diving buddy in the poor visibility and became trapped in one of the wrecks, his air ran out. He was a good stable chap but enjoyed a thrilling life, apart from diving he was also a keen parachutist which is how we met, he was my my tandem master. I cannot imagine the fear he must have experienced, snorkeling is my limit.
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Sadly I think it’s one of those activities are more prone to deaths to human error
Sam went back to Kirk Hallam music centre (SEDMC) today for a ‘car park jam’ with the tuba so we went walking while we waited.
Pleasant it was.
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Spending a challenging morning at work. No real incidents, just loads of stupidity (staff included). Glad to be out of there for four weeks (annual leave that I booked to go to Straya).
Feeling very down. Narelle feeling worse.
Still, I stopped on the way home and bought a case of Chilean Chardonnay for Narelle, a case of Chilean Pinot Noir, and a case of Hipster Beers por moi.
Let the (subdued) holidays begin.
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I’m sure that with the right amount of alcohol you will enjoy anyway Terry. It’s a heap better than being at work !!
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How far did you have to walk before you couldn’t hear anything? 
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We were quite clever with the wind direction😉
Damn right !
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Look on the bright side. That’s enough time to play two whole albums !
Exploring Lincoln this afternoon. A charming City neither Northern nor especially Southern in character. This is a good thing.
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I’ve never been to Lincoln. Must put that right.
@Valvebloke There’s a tremendous electronic components shop here on the Strait. All sorts of bits & bobs incl a lot of ex military stuff. J Birkett. You probably know it.
I’ve sung in Lincoln cathedral. It’s vast. Ruskin said it was worth more than any two other English cathedrals put together.
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