St Abbs, 3rd September 2006
Not having a good time of diving at the moment as dives 81 & 82 at St Abbs where to confirm.
I started off very enthusiastic meeting Chris at Coatbridge and car sharing driving Miss daisy style to St Abbs.
We just managed to arrive on site in time to get ready and rush to the harbour to get on the boat.
I managed to blow an o-ring from my din poseidon first stage by being a Bawbag and over tightening.
Alex from Central Scuba was doing Chris and my own first open water dives as part of our TDI Advanced Nitrox & Deco procedures course.
Alex briefed Chris and I on the boat and informed us of the skills he would be assessing on dive one.
After the skills assessment I was to buddy up with Davy Muir (Long John Capt. Bawbag) and have a fun dive.
We all dropped off MV Topline at Black Carr and got neutral buoyancy at around 12 metres at this point Alex got Chris and I to practice an S Drill and some OOA with the long hose with free swimming donor.
My S Drill was poor as I nearly turned off one of my cylinders without isolating! Whilst my Donor to Chris wasn’t that great due to hose routing.
Anyway after that calamity I buddied up with Davy then within minutes managed to lose him and had to surface after a minute alone.
With a dive time of less than 10 minutes I was pretty damn annoyed at myself.
When Paul got the Top line back to the harbour we got ourselves off the boat and I found Dave (Keylimepie), Helen (Buoyant Babe), Aaron (Eeyor), Brian & Jim (handsome off course) from BSAC Sunderland / YD & my previous trip out on MV Topline back in April for a good gab.
After a nice lunch with Davy & Chris then a good gab with Wullie, Stevie, Aly, Alex and the girl with the Tupperware full of fruit who I cant remember her name we all kitted up ready to head back out on Paul’s boat.
I was hoping for a much better dive this time but that wasn’t to be the case either…
Chris and I where given a stage cylinder each to side sling and a slate to carry to get us to write down the data for our SAC / RMV Calculations.
We rolled off the boat into a current with some right dodgy viz., I wasn’t happy at all.
Chris and I settled in at 14 metres to right down the time, depth, Pressure in our cylinders and to start a ten minute counter.
I felt like I was being pulled all over the place and my own buoyancy was all over the place with the twins and the stage upsetting me, I clung onto a rock got Alex’s attention and thumbed my dive.
Alex took control and took us up although he had left his reel behind so I gave him mine and he sent up the bag.
Another nightmare dive.
Dive Log to date: 82 dives, 55 hours 53 Minutes. 10 Dives with twin set
