City of Waterford - not!
So with the planed dive cancelled, a hardy (some would say foolish) band of YD divers headed for Vobster - determined to get a friday dive in after all - and thus defy the english weather.
Janos arrived at my house at 7:30 as I said I would lead him to the site. We had a journey from hell, a milk tanker and a tractor holidng us hostage for mile after mile at 20 miles per hour. Janos made me look like a cool, composed and slow driver as he dodsged in and out trying to overtake - in the end he gave the driver the finger
We got there to find Al and Chasey already building their kit. With no sign of the others we decised to head in for a dive as soon as we were ready - after Janos and Mark had tried back fining on the surface (both said they wanted to be shown how). There are the obligatory pictures kicking around - but not with me
Al lead us off for a fun pootle, with me bringing up the rear. Mark’s changes to his harness meant that he was able to complete shutdowns without any great hassle so we really did just chill and have fun - even though my brain refused to accpet Janos’ twins were OK that way up
On the way out we bumped into Howard (who lets face it is unmistakable in the water) and Digger. I was most concerned to see bubbles coming from Diger so went over to have a look - Janos took a picture of me hovering over Digs with the word STROKE displayed on his tanks so I’m definately open to blackmail here
Second dive was just me, Janos and Al - with Janos having another go at back finning - much progress there. He had said that he wanted to try an Ali stage so Al and I clipped three - or was it four off on to him for a laugh. I swam around with four on (Two 80s and 7 and a noseclipped 40) Hmmm… if I have to do this on a real dive Gavin is coming too.
Last dive was me, Al, Chasey and Howard on Chasey’s YBOD. I stayed at the back buddying Howard, who really seems to be getting to grips with the breather, and we had a comfortable dive although when I had to switch to one of the stages I called Al over to varify under our usual proceedures.
