Strange things that you capture with a camera

Drysuit Speciality Instructor Course

Well another Instructor Speciality down and plenty more to go. Last night it was the turn of Drysuit Speciality Instructor.

Yet more fun was had in the pool with our drysuits on being spun around making sure that you are able to dump air from the suit should all the air end up in the feet of the suit.

Along with the usual hoovering and fin pivots both using the drysuit inflator hose and your BCD. The some kick and glide around the pool.

Can an SMB be to BIG?

 Sometimes you have to ask yourself how big do you need have your SMB(Surface Marker Buoy), well I've recently managed to get my hands on a 3meter (10 feet in old money) red smb with it's own cylinder that is used to inflate it.

Well as we was at holborough on sunday it just had to be done, we we sat doing a safety stop I passed the camera to George and out came the SMB, some people have called it a lift bag but I know it's an SMB.

I opened it up and slowly open the valve to allow som air

into the SMB, making sure I was holding the reel in the other hand and with my finger on the release button the SMB rocketed to the surface. We slowly surfaced to be greeted with all the comments form people about the size of the SMB.

However 3 meters is just right when you are doing dives at sea this gives the skipper a great view if where you are, and in large swells just makes it safer for yourself. The only problem is don't get caught up in it otherwise you'll  be rocketing to the surface with it and then you could be having a trip to the chamber in a helicopter.