http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com Just another Thedeepstop.com weblog Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:52:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With a deepstop crash and a huge data loss, most of my blog entries went missing, I did manage to recover the ones older than the end of April 2008. Basically the rest of 2008 involved a trip to the Fairweather V Which was a good fun trip and my last with ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2009/03/11/abriged-two-thousand-eight/ 2009 started well with a sneaky wee trip to Egypt and a weeks diving on Whirlwind. Whirlwind Jan 1st-7th Northern Red Sea Just back from a great fun week on Whirlwind (third time on this boat in three years) doing the popular Northern Wrecks and Reefs trip. Whilrwind is getting a little ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2009/03/10/whirlwind-jan2009/ Argyle Caravan Park, Loch Fyne I managed to get my teenage daughter out her bed around nine am and drag her into the scuba bus (aka my rusty old pug 406 estate that cost about the same as my primary torch!) to go along to see if I could get a ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/05/14/gue-scotland-day-may-11th-2008/ Part three of my IDC & IE Report. Part One: IDC AI Part Two: IDC OWSI GO PRO! What does IE Stand for? Instructor Exam Friday May 2nd mid afternoon and we all we climb into the Scuba Med Van & head to Santa Ponsa where the IE is hosted. Looby & Rina in the van Dave ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/05/14/after-an-idc-comes-an-ie/ Continuing on from the AI section of the IDC The OWSI Section of an IDC is delivered by a Course Director, in our case Clive Albon (CD#59733).   Clive, Florian & Michelle Laura and Pika have a flat warming party this is where we all meet Clive as Dave had picked him up ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/05/13/mallorca-idc-owsi-april-may-2008/ I decided earlier in the year to try my hand at gaining instuctor certification so decided it was time to once again head back to Mallorca and Can Picafort with Scuba Med Divers I flew to Palma from Bristol on the 24th of April. Dave picked me up at the ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/05/12/mallorca-idc-ai-april-2008/ Fundies as this course is known has been written up and reported on many times now, you can read about it on many websites including yorkshire-divers and direxplorers. Fundies is well documented and its easy to see what it consists of over at GUE.com What are the biggest differences between ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/05/11/gue-fundamentals-vobster-quay-18-21st-april-2008/ I am working down in Bristol just now near Vobster or Chepstow or even not that far from the south coast or south Wales. I’ve got my dive gear in the car and well I got an invite to do a wee night dive at Stoney Cove. Stoney Cove I hear you ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/04/23/night-dive-at-stoney-cove/ Driving to Loch Fyne for a wee dive up the Rest and Be Thankful, it is times like this when I appreciate the country I live in. I met up with Scott and Yvonne from Cumbernauld Sub Aqua Club at the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar. We decided on Drishaig reef as ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/03/03/drishaig-reef-loch-fyne/ The new twin set has arrived! Desperate to dive with the new O2 Clean Cylinders that I bought from NikNaks and happy I have my own dive gear again I arranged to go out with Cumbernauld Sub Aqua for an easy shore dive and also through DIR Explorers I had arranged ... http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/2008/02/11/diving-with-the-twins/