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 Topic: After the ban... |
jon_e
Replies: 3
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 Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:43 pm Subject: After the ban... |
Yes.. the signs are most encouraging! I spent a couple of dives over the weekend specifically drifting over scallopy areas...
Lots of life and growth starting to emerge on the areas that have been d ... |
| Topic: Looks like a good one coming... |
jon_e
Replies: 2
Views: 861
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:39 pm Subject: Looks like a good one coming... |
And a good one it was too... five dives - Friday Saturday and Sunday... Just got in as it was blowing up on Sunday evening.
Cant say the catches were anything special, but the vis was pretty reaso ... |
| Topic: After the ban... |
jon_e
Replies: 3
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:14 am Subject: After the ban... |
I hope that the numbers of small scallops is a good sign - I certainly recall the area to the west of the Baggy being well covered with small scallops when it was left alone for a couple of years.
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| Topic: Looks like a good one coming... |
jon_e
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:42 am Subject: Looks like a good one coming... |
The forecast for the end of this week is looking good...
http://www.windguru.com/int/index.php?sc=47888
Anyone planning anything exciting?
(PS Wind Guru over the years has been proven the b ... |
| Topic: After the ban... |
jon_e
Replies: 3
Views: 775
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:37 am Subject: After the ban... |
I'm interested to hear the opinions of others on any changes they have noticed to the seabed on dives within the area covered by the recent scallop dredging/bottom trawling ban.
I get the feeling ... |
| Topic: Harolds /Radaas |
jon_e
Replies: 0
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Forum: Looking for Buddies? Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:22 pm Subject: Harolds /Radaas |
Anyone going to Harolds any time, please let me know.. Used to dive her like most dive the Baggy - would love to do her again!!!
Thanks
Jon |
| Topic: The Sun is out.. |
jon_e
Replies: 3
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:18 pm Subject: The Sun is out.. |
Now that was a great weekends diving... the only casualty??  A sunburnt armpit...... If I will hold on to the tubes with my arm down and forget to put any sunblock on it...
Culminated in a ... |
| Topic: The Sun is out.. |
jon_e
Replies: 3
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:33 pm Subject: The Sun is out.. |
 Went today and had two very good dives... including an extremely amusing few minutes trying to coax a couple of my beloved blue crustaceans from their lairs on the second dive..
... and planni ... |
| Topic: The Sun is out.. |
jon_e
Replies: 3
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:34 am Subject: The Sun is out.. |
....The sky is blue...
I'm off diving...
Are you going too???
<cue tumbleweed rolling past screen with wind effect and lonely tolling bell.........  > |
| Topic: Good dives Ones that were much better than you thought! |
jon_e
Replies: 0
Views: 462
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Forum: Surface Interval Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:57 pm Subject: Good dives Ones that were much better than you thought! |
June 1993 - Scapa Flow...
Woke in the morning in our house by the Churchill Barrier between Burray & S Ronaldsay to see the sea thrashing the blockships that were at that time visible and unde ... |
| Topic: dive kit |
jon_e
Replies: 2
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Forum: Dive/Kit/Training Chat Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:37 pm Subject: dive kit |
| 2x 15l cylinders with twin valves to allow two separate dvs (dont ask me what make,, they work ok... ) ... a crap Wing/bcd thing... Poseidon I think... Northern Diver Vortex drysuit... O3 semidry... ... |
| Topic: Allow me... |
jon_e
Replies: 2
Views: 538
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Forum: Introductions Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:02 pm Subject: Allow me... |
| Ohhhhh... I have been known to take the odd scallop lobster crab skate cod brill plaice sole bass cuttlefish angler fish... even sent a conger up on a lifting bag in my dim and distant past.... |
| Topic: Boat handling solo 'fill the bag' divers may be interested.. |
jon_e
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Views: 511
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Forum: Looking for Buddies? Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:06 am Subject: Boat handling solo 'fill the bag' divers may be interested.. |
(Note before you read.... INDEPENDENT of all clubs and organisations......and fiercely so!)
Looking for competent boat handling divers to handle boat while I dive and vice versa...
Nothing ambi ... |
| Topic: Allow me... |
jon_e
Replies: 2
Views: 538
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Forum: Introductions Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:59 am Subject: Allow me... |
...to be the first..
Age?? Old...
Diving experience... 22 years... (but not a hair on my arse... see avatar...)
BSAC Advanced diver (lapsed) SAA Club Instructor & Rescue diver (lapsed) ... |
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