Yesterday I went to Stoney Cove with Frances to start doing my Sports Diver practicals.
We got there for about half past 7 and kitted up, we were in the water by 9 and on the first dive.
Dive one went well, we did some basic skills and swam about a bit and saw lots of perch and rudd and then some freshwater sponges which were really pretty. No deeper than 17m.
Dive 2 we went to 21m and saw more fish, using a Surface Marker Buoy (SMB) so I get used to towing the buoy, reeling and unreeling etc. By now my ulcer was really rather sore but I was still enjoying the dive.
In all it was rainy on the surface and about 13 degrees, underwater it was wet and about 17 degrees!
Soon I'll be doing more dives to qualify - hopefully I'll go back a Sports Diver and able to do more interesting dives than Vivian!
