Saturday, April 28, 2012

28th April, 2012

Diving @ Capernwray

Dive #1: Waded in with zip undone on drysuit, slight flood. Oops. Wayne leading, down to aircraft, swim through, then to the caves at 85deg, then to the Podsnap at 80deg. Attempted to find African Queen but unable to. So swam bit further along shore until jetty in sight and then Wayne deployed new SMB. Safety at 5m and then surface.

Dive #2: Myself leading with camera. Wayne suffering cold in his semi-dry quite bad. Decided to plan dive just for aircraft with a maybe on the cave. Down to 10m mark and then taking some pictures, both momentarily lost bouancy awareness and ended up at about 2.5m. Back down and through aircraft. Pictures taken. Discussion not to proceed to caves, wayne bit low on air too, so circled aircraft taking pictures and re-entered. Wayne on 100bar, so headed back to cliff @north for surfacing to 5meter safety. Probably better to swim west instead and come through the shallows.

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