Conger Alley - Tuesday 24th October 2006
Another wet, dark & cold Scottish Tuesday evening.
Paul & I head off to Loch Long again.
I know its the easy option but when you have a Sea Loch just over an hours drive then sometimes you need to take advantage and get a sneaky post work dive in, so thats exactly what we did.
Paul had not dived Conger Alley before but as we had done the caves and GDRE over the last month or so together and Conger is a much easier site it wasnt going to be a problem at all.
I had only led a dive at Conger once before with Gareth and didnt have any trouble.
We downloaded the site info from www.congeralley.com yet again and discussed the dive plan.
At 7pm its practically Pitch dark, wo we dropped a weighted strobe off near the entry point in about a metre of water to help us navigate back in the dark.
In we went, headed down to 26 Metres and came across the bottom edge of the reef, due to the wet weather and the streams that feed in to Loch long the first part fo the dive had some opretty dodgy viz with the fresh rain water mixing with the sea water of the loch.
After about 15 Metres the viz started to clear and as no other divers had been in the water we got around 5-8 metres of clear but dark water to see what was going on.
The reef at Conger actually looked very calming and pleasent we slowly worked our way up the reef seeing the usual, Conger Eel, Squat Lobster, Edible Crabs, Mackerl, Pollack, Anenomes, tube worms and normal West coast stuff.
Quite a chilled we dive with not a lot of life but enough to keep us entertained.
Surfaced after 39 Minutes with a max depth of 26.9 Metres. Water temp was between 12oC & 13oC.
I dived using the twin tens and used the D9 for the first time.
We surfaced about 15 metres too short along the coast and just swam back to the strobe.
Dive Stats:
Dive 92: In 19:09, Duration 39 Minutes.
Twin Tens Dived on AIR (IN: 220Bar out: 130 Bar).
6KG of weight carried, O Three suit, Mares Fins.
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Dives this year: 72
Total Dives: 92
Total Dive time: 63 Hours 23 Minutes
