With so much talk of diving for the last couple of months and me only having access to a training pool at my club (ok it's a olympic high board training pool 15ft deep and they can make the floor move up and down to vary depth!)I decided this week to go diving today with a buddy from the club.Last night i finished work at 2 am and got up at 7am and drove to my buddies house to pick them up got all packed and set of for stoney cove .The rain is so bad that they have set speed limits on the motorway ,me thinking this is good as know one will be at the quarry in this weather.an hour and and a half later we arrive and we arrive at stony and it is packed ,we are lucky to get a space in the furthest car park ,which means we have to kit up into our dry suits and carry our gear to the quarry in pouring rain.we get to the waters edge and my buddies lp hose to her dry suit will not stay on the inflator we try turning the air off and starting again and eventually after 20 mins and me de-kitting we get it to stay on .Know we are ready to go out into the water.Our dive plan is to dive at about 6-7 metres for about 10 mins to practise/refresh our skills and adjust to the temp of about 7 c then go over a ledge to 20-30 metres.Once in get in all gos as planned but the area is very bad vis maybe rain and maybe other divers ,i signal to decend over the ledge after the 10 min and my buddy is signaling "no" and whats to asend to the surface so up we go up with a controlled ascent at the surface she says she is very tired due to the cold and needs a rest before going to the deeper area. This is cool with me so i take off my mask and hood so i can hear and talk,after a few minutes she says lets go,so i don my gear and then start to ascend but then my mask now floods because i must have it caught up with the hood stopping the seal so i try to clear it but i am unable to blow through my nose .Nothing.So i signal to my buddy to ascend and we go back to the surface and adjust my mask/hood.Now for the second time we decend but this time it feels like someone is crushing my head as i can not equalise so i again signal but this time to abort the dive.So thats the first and the second dive out of the window as well .I feel so guilty and annoyed as i have never had to abort a dive before.
SO...Why oh why can,t i live in the Bahamas.
Regards ,
MAL..;-0
SO...Why oh why can,t i live in the Bahamas.
Regards ,
MAL..;-0