DIR Gig Saturday
The organisation had clearly paid off (as had booking the gig on the same weekend as the dive show) as we were able to secure three parking spaces in a row and also accomodate a lot of our divers on the bottom car park.
Luxury - leaving after breakfast for Stoney at a weekend - if I could do this every time I’d go there more often.
Howard, Diving Dude from YD, was there for his YBOD Mod 1 and was neatly pinned in by And, Ian and Bob - out numbered but not out gunned - Howard can give as good as he gets :o) Next to turn up was Mark Chase… who I was to fit for a harness.
It didn’t take long for it to look like a bit of a meet was underway… :o)
I had a really good dive with Mark and Bob, and then jumped in with Al on the scooters for a go round the shelf. Still finding it difficult - my arm is being pulled out of its socket and my wrist is being dislocated - it must get easier.
Final dive of the day was great. Al lead off with Alun, and Little Pete in tow, I brought up the rear with Howard (Radcliffe) who jumped in with us at the last minute. I had a really chilled dive apart from the fact that my wrist is still sore from the scooter dive. Howard is clearly a very skilled diver and I watch his use of light signals and his navigation through the tighter bits of the Stanegarth with interest. man
Saturday night found us in lectures given by Andy Carroll (who showed videos of recent DIR UK dives) Rich Walker (who covered the standard kit config) and Andy Kerslake who set out how DIR started in the UK.
A fun evening, made even better by the realisation when we got back to Willowmead that the clocks going back meant an extra hour in bed :o)
