8 Jul 2007 - *** Latest News ***
The Club Boat was over on the Clyde last weekend, Stevie, Gavin, Tom, Warren, Dougie, Lindsay.Warren, Stevie, Graeme, Gavin, Ally all dived Greenends Gully on Wednesday Evening....and all got lost!
The Club Boat is also out this weekend at Dunbar to Dive the River Garry and the Yetts.
Well done to Gavin and Tom for passing the Dive Leader Theory Test, and are now Dive Leaders...well done..!
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Tom and Gavin are now signed off as Dive Leaders,and I understand a few others are ready to be signed off or have only a few things to finish off, so a good year for Training.
We Dived around Cumbrae last weekend, the GPS and sounder were playing up but managed to find and put Divers on 3 wrecks using transits...The Cuirassier in 36m, The Barges in 17m, and The Lady Isabella in 15m, it was a great day and we will be back again in a few weeks....watch this space...
Warren and Jason are taking the Club Boat to Dunbar this Sunday the 8th to dive the River Garry and the Yetts...if you want to go speak to Warren.
We also dived Greenends Gully on Wednesday night and got well lost, we all had an hours dive, 40 mins of which we were lost...next time take a compass!
********************** Club Boat at Dunbar 08/07/07- Dive Report ***********************
Divers:- Warren, Stevie, Gavin, Tom, Graeme, Jason + Dougie for the second Dive.
Dive 1:- River Garry 25m
Dive 2:- The Yetts 16m
Warren picked up the Club Boat from Ratho and met us all at Dunbar Harbour at 09:30, the tide was dropping fast but we got the boat into the water and were ready to go about 10:40. There were six of us which was about the maximum in the slightly rough conditions, the wind had picked up and there were 3 to 4 foot swells, so we got wet before getting to the site!.
Our first Dive was to be on the wreck of the SS River Garry which can be dived at most states of tide but can be tricky to find.
The River Garry was an Iron Steamship built in 1883 which foundered in a Force12 Storm in 1893 while carrying Coal from Leith to London, her crew of 19 were all lost. she lies in 26m about a mile offshore from Barns Ness Lighthouse, and 3 miles east of Dunbar, well broken up and salvaged in the 1940's she makes a great dive with lots of life.
Again we always say we should have a shot line ready as every time we get on site to search for her we manage to hit the boiler, which shows up well on the sounder, standing nearly 4m off the seabed, and yes we found it again but werent ready, the time we prepared the shot we had drifted off her, after much running back and forward we got two shots in and the first two Divers, Stevie and Gavin went in with a prearranged signal if they werent on the wreck, and not to put the other two in until rthey find the wreck .( note:- the first two Divers are always known as Shot Monkeys as sometimes they end up on the seabed with no wreck!!).
The Tide was running a bit but once on the Seabed we were sheltered as the wreck lies in a bowl in the seabed, there is always good visibility on this site as the seabed is rock and gravel. the shot weight was just off the Boiler and we didnt really need a torch. after a tour of the wreck and seeing lots of Fish and large Lobsters we were heading back to find the shot when I noticed something in a hole on the wreck, when pulled out it turned out to be a 'Sounding Lead' which were swung off the Bow of the ship on a long line and used to find the depth in the days before Electronic Sounders'.
(hence the phrase ' Swinging the Lead' as it must have been an easy job)
Lo and behold no shotline it must have been pulled off the wreck, we had a search but no joy so i sent up my DSMB and we ascended i had no stops as my Rebreather still gave me 70 minutes of bottom time, Gavin was using a 32% Nitrox Mix and was not anywhere near stops either, we did a 3minute Safety Stop and were picked up by Tom and Warren, once they had surface from their Dives we recovered all the shots and headed back to Dunbar.
Once back at Dunbar everyone wandered away to have lunch and left the Boat to ground in the still dropping tide, we managed to get it afloat again and got ready to Dive again.
Gavin had ripped a suit seal earlier today, then managed to rip his neck seal, as I wasnt doing this dive he used my Drysuit with threats of dismemberment if he damaged it.
The Yetts are a line of rocks which lie just off Dunbar Hrbour and although there are strong currents have lots of life and are a great dive.
We managed to get all six divers in the water at once and I assisted Warren in the boat...after a 45 minute Dive they all surfaced on DSMB's with tales of great vis, lots of life and Graeme and Dougie had 2 nice Lobsters each.
The Boat was recovered, and fuelled and washed before being taken to a Barbecue at Yellowcraigs on Warrens way home, that was nice of him...
A good day but compared to Largs the week before we seemed to be short of time all day, and everything from Launch to Diving was a lot more effort, and the Launch Fees are now up to £10 at Dunbar, this makes the £14 at Largs with all the facilities look very good.
We Dived around Cumbrae last weekend, the GPS and sounder were playing up but managed to find and put Divers on 3 wrecks using transits...The Cuirassier in 36m, The Barges in 17m, and The Lady Isabella in 15m, it was a great day and we will be back again in a few weeks....watch this space...
Warren and Jason are taking the Club Boat to Dunbar this Sunday the 8th to dive the River Garry and the Yetts...if you want to go speak to Warren.
We also dived Greenends Gully on Wednesday night and got well lost, we all had an hours dive, 40 mins of which we were lost...next time take a compass!
********************** Club Boat at Dunbar 08/07/07- Dive Report ***********************
Divers:- Warren, Stevie, Gavin, Tom, Graeme, Jason + Dougie for the second Dive.
Dive 1:- River Garry 25m
Dive 2:- The Yetts 16m
Warren picked up the Club Boat from Ratho and met us all at Dunbar Harbour at 09:30, the tide was dropping fast but we got the boat into the water and were ready to go about 10:40. There were six of us which was about the maximum in the slightly rough conditions, the wind had picked up and there were 3 to 4 foot swells, so we got wet before getting to the site!.
Our first Dive was to be on the wreck of the SS River Garry which can be dived at most states of tide but can be tricky to find.
The River Garry was an Iron Steamship built in 1883 which foundered in a Force12 Storm in 1893 while carrying Coal from Leith to London, her crew of 19 were all lost. she lies in 26m about a mile offshore from Barns Ness Lighthouse, and 3 miles east of Dunbar, well broken up and salvaged in the 1940's she makes a great dive with lots of life.
Again we always say we should have a shot line ready as every time we get on site to search for her we manage to hit the boiler, which shows up well on the sounder, standing nearly 4m off the seabed, and yes we found it again but werent ready, the time we prepared the shot we had drifted off her, after much running back and forward we got two shots in and the first two Divers, Stevie and Gavin went in with a prearranged signal if they werent on the wreck, and not to put the other two in until rthey find the wreck .( note:- the first two Divers are always known as Shot Monkeys as sometimes they end up on the seabed with no wreck!!).
The Tide was running a bit but once on the Seabed we were sheltered as the wreck lies in a bowl in the seabed, there is always good visibility on this site as the seabed is rock and gravel. the shot weight was just off the Boiler and we didnt really need a torch. after a tour of the wreck and seeing lots of Fish and large Lobsters we were heading back to find the shot when I noticed something in a hole on the wreck, when pulled out it turned out to be a 'Sounding Lead' which were swung off the Bow of the ship on a long line and used to find the depth in the days before Electronic Sounders'.
(hence the phrase ' Swinging the Lead' as it must have been an easy job)
Lo and behold no shotline it must have been pulled off the wreck, we had a search but no joy so i sent up my DSMB and we ascended i had no stops as my Rebreather still gave me 70 minutes of bottom time, Gavin was using a 32% Nitrox Mix and was not anywhere near stops either, we did a 3minute Safety Stop and were picked up by Tom and Warren, once they had surface from their Dives we recovered all the shots and headed back to Dunbar.
Once back at Dunbar everyone wandered away to have lunch and left the Boat to ground in the still dropping tide, we managed to get it afloat again and got ready to Dive again.
Gavin had ripped a suit seal earlier today, then managed to rip his neck seal, as I wasnt doing this dive he used my Drysuit with threats of dismemberment if he damaged it.
The Yetts are a line of rocks which lie just off Dunbar Hrbour and although there are strong currents have lots of life and are a great dive.
We managed to get all six divers in the water at once and I assisted Warren in the boat...after a 45 minute Dive they all surfaced on DSMB's with tales of great vis, lots of life and Graeme and Dougie had 2 nice Lobsters each.
The Boat was recovered, and fuelled and washed before being taken to a Barbecue at Yellowcraigs on Warrens way home, that was nice of him...
A good day but compared to Largs the week before we seemed to be short of time all day, and everything from Launch to Diving was a lot more effort, and the Launch Fees are now up to £10 at Dunbar, this makes the £14 at Largs with all the facilities look very good.