eccy delph - 29th Jan

to Sonic on passing his SMB course today at Eccy Delph

A couple of new faces out with with us today. Bernd is from Belgium and Gemma is from Somerset, welcome to ProScuba always great to meet new people. I'm sure they will tell us more in thier own good time It was great to see Ian out playing too.

As you can see we had Sonic doing his SMB course. After an therory session it was time to break the ice and get wet. Thanks to Andy w for leading and assisting today.

The site was somewhat on the chilly side today. Out of the water everthing froze between dives!

Eccy Delph, the location today, great to see John as usual although looking rather stressed this morning as when we arrived the quarry was covered with a layer of ice !!

However After an hour and a few laps by the rescue boat the ice was away and we could begin.

So after our leader had completed the classroom session with Sonic and our new friend Gemma and we managed a Bacon sandwich it was off on our adventures as follows:

Dive 1 -AW, Ian, Charlie, Sonic, Gemma - 34 mins - max depth 19.9 - AW, 20.1 - IG , temp 3-4 degrees
Dive plan to meet smudge at 20 minutes on the van roof.

Giant stride entry, down onto van continuing around onto gun, aeroplane, boat and returning to van at 20 minutes on the nose only to be shocked to find - Well no Smudge for a start who joined us at 22 minutes then over to Smudge to start DSMB with Sonic.

Dive 2
AW, Ian, Charlie, Bernd, Sonic, Gemma.

Giant stride entry down over gun passed plans and over to Slot machine near gnome garden at the back, then back across to plane and a meeting on the van with our leader once again.

Over to the man again to complete with Sonic.

Fantastic day as usual with great fun and good company, nice to see Ian and a big welcome to our two new friends Berd from Belgium and Gemma.


A BIG WELL DONE TO SONIC ON COMPLETING HIS SMB SPECIALITY. !!!!