Went down to Holborough Lake, Snodland in Kent for a dive today. When I got up the weather was brilliant sunshine which is always a good start to the day. Along with sarah we were meeting Helen and Jon and a few others from DiveBuddy UK.
We got there a little late due to an accident on the A21. Anyway when we got there we was told that the visability was 10+ meteres, we walked on the jetty and we could see clearly down to the botton of the lake at around 8 meteres.
We all started kitting up I was using a twinset with a 140bar of 28% nitrox left over from a recent wreck dive, everyone else was using single 12liter cyclinders. On entering the water it was a nice 15 degree's C. We swam out to the plaform and used the descent line using it as a reference line, Jon and myself went down first followed by Helen and Sarah with the aim of completing Sarah's navigation part of her PADi Advanced Open Water Course.
Sarah managed to complete the resipicle part before she had some problem with the cold and her throat so it was out the water for her.
That left the rest of us, Helen, Jon and myself time for a nice swim around the lake. We descended and followed the ropes from one object to another the visability was still in the 10+ meters which made an ideal photo oppertunitity.
From the platform were we did the navigation from we headed over to the "Sweet Mystery" a large boat wreck, then onto the speed boat where Helen and Jon decided to get into it and try and drive it.
Then onto the large tracker tyres were we was greeted by six really large perch which seemed happy to have there photo's taken.
We carried on following the rope when the we started to ascend upto around 6 meters where on top of the mound was alot ot objects from a cannon, anchor and a ships compass, however the strangest object was a statue of a gargoil, Helen decided that it needed a kiss only to get a nice slimmy return kiss from it, good job she never used tongues. Over the mound still following the ropes we came to yet another platform then onto half a car burried in the side of the lake. You have to keep your eye's open as there is some unmarked objects, these include cannons, compasses, statues and old motorbikes.
The good news is that were going to return next sunday and have yet another look around the lake.
We got there a little late due to an accident on the A21. Anyway when we got there we was told that the visability was 10+ meteres, we walked on the jetty and we could see clearly down to the botton of the lake at around 8 meteres.
We all started kitting up I was using a twinset with a 140bar of 28% nitrox left over from a recent wreck dive, everyone else was using single 12liter cyclinders. On entering the water it was a nice 15 degree's C. We swam out to the plaform and used the descent line using it as a reference line, Jon and myself went down first followed by Helen and Sarah with the aim of completing Sarah's navigation part of her PADi Advanced Open Water Course.Sarah managed to complete the resipicle part before she had some problem with the cold and her throat so it was out the water for her.
That left the rest of us, Helen, Jon and myself time for a nice swim around the lake. We descended and followed the ropes from one object to another the visability was still in the 10+ meters which made an ideal photo oppertunitity.
From the platform were we did the navigation from we headed over to the "Sweet Mystery" a large boat wreck, then onto the speed boat where Helen and Jon decided to get into it and try and drive it.Then onto the large tracker tyres were we was greeted by six really large perch which seemed happy to have there photo's taken.
We carried on following the rope when the we started to ascend upto around 6 meters where on top of the mound was alot ot objects from a cannon, anchor and a ships compass, however the strangest object was a statue of a gargoil, Helen decided that it needed a kiss only to get a nice slimmy return kiss from it, good job she never used tongues. Over the mound still following the ropes we came to yet another platform then onto half a car burried in the side of the lake. You have to keep your eye's open as there is some unmarked objects, these include cannons, compasses, statues and old motorbikes.
The good news is that were going to return next sunday and have yet another look around the lake.
One thing to be aware of with Holborough Lake is there isn't any maps of what objects they have placed in the lake which makes every dive an adventure.
