Had a great day at Holborough on saturday,met up with Jon, Marcel and Jim(bearded diver). Jon and Jim turned upa little late, however this didn't put us off. The first dive we had another diver call Harry tag along with us as he was on his own.
Jim and Jon finally kitted up, so the order was Jim and Jon together and myself and Marcel and Harry would keep up the rear so to speak. Marcel wanted to try out his new sony camera and I took mine along and placed it in video mode. We entered the water and set off as the visability wasn't that good around 4-6meters.
We all managed the loose each other so we surfaced and swam out to the bouy and down to the platform and then set off around the lake. Jim and Jon (bloody bearded divers) seemed to be walking on the bottom with the amount of it they was kicking up. Well as Marcel only had a semidry on after 35 minutes it was getting to cold for him so we headed back to the slipway.
Dive 2: This was just Jon Jim and myself, I used this to play the roll of instructor and told them we was going to do some drysuit skills and sort out there bouyancy problems. I adjusted Jim's weighting by removing the ankle weights and attaching them to the front of him. I was going to conduct only 2 skills which was pin pivot and a horizontal hover. We entered the water and swam out to the platform and desended down to it.
Jim had some problems equalizing however he got over that, we was on the platform, On with the first skill of the fin pivot to be completed both with thw drysuit inflator and then using the BCD inflator. The second skill was the horizontal hover, once they were both in a nice hover position I got them to swim around the position it was amazing that just changing Jim's weighting by removing the ankle weights he was nearly horizontal.
It was then back onto the platform and we all set off for a swim around the lake, I led the way following the ropes, we came onto a large wooden platforms and both Jim and Jon glided over it with any problems. I swapped positions so I could follow them and check the smoke screen however they was now only kicking up around 5-10% of what they did on the first dive.
