Well as I was off on holiday I thought we could have a dive at Vobster Quay on the way down to Brixham.
We'd arranged to meet James and Mark, with Sarah and myslef travelling down together, James somehow managed to have a car accident the night before so it was just left to the 3 of us.
The traffic was terrible and we arrived just before 11.00am, Mark had been sat there for a couple of hours waiting for us.
DIVE 1: Anyway finally made it into the water with Mark and myself our first dive was going to be the deepest of the day. I've been wanting to dive the Jacquin II wreck for a while, so we set off to it the bouy and started a free decent down the line, the visability was a good 10m, as we got down to 8m we could start to see the wreck beneath us, the Jacquin II is nearly 60 foot long and was lying on it's side. After swiming round it, Mark managed to get a few pictures I headed over to the PIT which bottoms out at 26m with a car sat in the bottom of it, we headed out of the pit as it was a warm 9C in there. We swam on the 13 meter ledge over to the plane wreck and the tempature came up to a nice 16C. The plane wreck is split into three sections and the first part was the tail section, then swimming through the middle section and finally through the side door of the cockpit and out throught the back.
We headed over to the Ford Escort as we was making our way up the road, I showed Mark where the tunnel starts as we started our ascent up from 12m when we got to 6m we had the usual 3 minute safety stop and then exited the water for a nice cup of coffee.
DIVE 2: Mark wanted to have a look at the Crushing works and Sarah was going to join us for this dive. So we all did a giant stride into the water, we all started to desend however Sarah had a problem with her ear which ment she couldn't equilize properly, which ended her dive.
Mark and myself waited for Sarah to safely get out the water so we could carry on as Mark wanted to have a look at the crushing works , so we swam round the side and descended down to 6m platform I led and swam over to a small boat wreck and then a drop off to 12 meters and over towards the plane wreck and onto the concrete swim through's as we came out of the last swim through we could see the top of the crushing works. Mark was snapping away , I thought it would be good to swap onto my deco cylinder of 50% as we was at 13m , after spending a few minutes looking at the steel work we headed towards the road to start our ascent to 6m for the usual 3minute safety stop at 6 meters.
We got out the water and had anoth cup of coffee, and completed our log books, the first dive had been Mark's 100th dive. Thanks to Mark for the pic's
We'd arranged to meet James and Mark, with Sarah and myslef travelling down together, James somehow managed to have a car accident the night before so it was just left to the 3 of us.
The traffic was terrible and we arrived just before 11.00am, Mark had been sat there for a couple of hours waiting for us.
DIVE 1: Anyway finally made it into the water with Mark and myself our first dive was going to be the deepest of the day. I've been wanting to dive the Jacquin II wreck for a while, so we set off to it the bouy and started a free decent down the line, the visability was a good 10m, as we got down to 8m we could start to see the wreck beneath us, the Jacquin II is nearly 60 foot long and was lying on it's side. After swiming round it, Mark managed to get a few pictures I headed over to the PIT which bottoms out at 26m with a car sat in the bottom of it, we headed out of the pit as it was a warm 9C in there. We swam on the 13 meter ledge over to the plane wreck and the tempature came up to a nice 16C. The plane wreck is split into three sections and the first part was the tail section, then swimming through the middle section and finally through the side door of the cockpit and out throught the back.
We headed over to the Ford Escort as we was making our way up the road, I showed Mark where the tunnel starts as we started our ascent up from 12m when we got to 6m we had the usual 3 minute safety stop and then exited the water for a nice cup of coffee.
DIVE 2: Mark wanted to have a look at the Crushing works and Sarah was going to join us for this dive. So we all did a giant stride into the water, we all started to desend however Sarah had a problem with her ear which ment she couldn't equilize properly, which ended her dive.Mark and myself waited for Sarah to safely get out the water so we could carry on as Mark wanted to have a look at the crushing works , so we swam round the side and descended down to 6m platform I led and swam over to a small boat wreck and then a drop off to 12 meters and over towards the plane wreck and onto the concrete swim through's as we came out of the last swim through we could see the top of the crushing works. Mark was snapping away , I thought it would be good to swap onto my deco cylinder of 50% as we was at 13m , after spending a few minutes looking at the steel work we headed towards the road to start our ascent to 6m for the usual 3minute safety stop at 6 meters.
We got out the water and had anoth cup of coffee, and completed our log books, the first dive had been Mark's 100th dive. Thanks to Mark for the pic's
