Conger Alley Loch Long, Dive 90, 3rd October 2006.
Yet another evening dive after work, this time quickly arranged via Yorkshire-Divers and Congeralley.com with Gareth who yet again I had never met but had a few online chats with about various diving related subjects.
Gareth hadnt dived the Caves before and has less dives logged than myself, I decided I wasnt comfortable leading that dive as a night dive so we headed off to Conger Alley.
It was pretty late by the time we got kitted up and ready to go so we got in the water at 20:19. plenty of little crabs all along the shore on entry so it was haping up to be a decent dive full of life and Conger Alley didnt disappoint us. A great wee dive with plenty of life, two Conger eels, plenty of Pollack, loads of crabs, shrimps, a Flat fisjh, lots of Blennys and an easy dive.
I decided to sit on the sea bed at 23 metres , turn out my torch and play with the luminescent plankton, superb fun and almost spot on the reef the whole dive.
I got pretty bad cramp right at the end of the dive and strained myself a bit with it but aaprt from that I enjoyed this chilled out dive and hopefully will get a chance to dive with Gareth another time.
Dive stats: Dive 90, Duration 48 Minutes, 12oC Water temp. Max Depth 23.8 Metres.
Total dive time logged: 62 Hours 04 Minutes.
