Newsletter Vol 5 Issue 5 Editor Mike H Scott PADI MSDT 600664
The 2003 Season has been one of the best in recent years of Club operations.
We have enjoyed two long weekends, blessed with good weather, several hard boat days, and many good days out in the RIBs. The quality of the diving has been excellent, with 98% Shot accuracy, calm seas, good visibility on about 80% of the dives and acceptable on the other 20%. Both RIBs have run well, with electronic and safety equipment upgraded, and sensible attitudes from the skippers. We have shown ourselves to be a competent, caring organisation, providing good serve to our Members, and upholding the good name of UK Diving. We have exercised risk management and indeed supported others less well prepared (see later). The Seahorse Dive Club is going from strength to strength. YOUR support is both needed and valued.
The caravan and tent systems have worked extremely well, and Lyme Regis has been a home from home on many occasions. Despite the problems of one or two local misunderstandings that generated an inspection from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA), we are well received by most of the Lyme Regis people. We are a well established, VERY active Club using the Cobb as our weekend base for most of the year. The storing of the RIBs close to the launch site has also proved extremely effective. The journeys have been quicker and smoother, with overall times reduced, compared with the days of getting the RIBs out of Hackpen.
I think the Club Members should show their appraciation of the efforts of the Boat Crews this summer... WELL DONE : Mark, Dave, Ian.
On a recent Hard Boat Day we genuinely rescued a diver who had returned to the surface alone (Her buddy had deserted Her!) A combination of events had led to this diver finishing up with a tank out of its strap, absolutely no air left, and a lack of surface buoyancy. Her buddy had ignored Her signals regarding the tank slipping (at depth, during the dive), and ignored the 50Bar message(!) - leaving this diver no choice but to ascend alone. At the surface the ability to orally inflate the the BCD was forgotten in the desperation to stay afloat by kicking. Lucky we were there! The diver was returned to Her own boat, at about the time Her "buddy" surfaced - some 10 minutes into the incident...
LEARN FROM THIS: IF YOU ARE ON THE SURFACE - OUT OF AIR - ORALLY INFLATE YOUR BCD SO YOU CAN REST
LEARN FROM THIS: DO NOT LOSE YOUR BUDDY - PAY ATTENTION TO SIGNALS - ESPECIALLY IN UK WATERS
Who's
he teaching to suck eggs....
... it can happen to anyone! BUT CAN IT?
SHOULD IT?
Some of us have been to more exotic locations, including Southern Red Sea liveaboard trips. We hope to show a video of the last trip on one Saturday evening soon. This will be a computer and projector presentation, as the TV screen will not do justice to the images recorded. A sequence with a Whaleshark will be included.
We have a small group investigating one of those "trips of a lifetime" - to New Zealand! Proposed date is February or March 2005 (yes -05!) so we can get well organised and well funded by then. Even so the trip will NOT be hugely expensive - probably over £1,000 but under £1,400. TWO weeks, diving both North and South New Zealand... Interested? Speak to Mike Scott or Paul Cole. For all other Holidays, Steve Cain continues to be our organiser.
MIKE: Home
01793-702427
STEVE: Home 01249 445069, Work 01793 897598
Saturday nights have been getting busier than ever this year. We have been training in a large jacuzzi some weeks... Lime Kiln management have now imposed a new time on us - that of 18.30 to 19.30 in the Pool and 19.30 to 20.45 in the Club Room. We hope that this earlier slot will, in fact, encourage more of you to visit on Club Nights before proceeding to your social engagements. You could even bring a guest or two to see what we do... and offer them the chance to try it out for themselves...
Family get special offers for try-dives... remember the age and health requirements please - if in doubt call Mark Horton.
The Archaeological side of the Club has been very slow to proceed this year. The selection of a site to record is always a long process, and we ask you all to bear with us on this. Having said that we have been practicing at Stoney Cove of all places!
Paul Cole is recording the distance between the Nautilus bow and the "reference marker" on a large scrap metal item. Stoney Cove to the nearest centimetre! We hope to establish a new site this winter and commence recording next Spring...
The Website is about to undergo another review... It may be "down" for a while...
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