Halton Ocean

Flat calm and sunshine: the troops don’t know how blessed they are!

Markgraf then Tabarka today and an end to spiderman and fairy cakes. Must remember to shed a tear later.

Koln then Goby.

Another flat calm day.

These days, in the internet age, it is easy to think of your local dive store as a throwback to the Jurrasic age where people actually walked into a shop, asked for what they want and then paid by handing over leaves of paper. However, below the surface lies a level of expertise that cones from years of experience and the school of hard knocks: it is this that it is easy to forget about when you tap that visa number into the interweb.

Cracking weather today. Beautiful blue sky and not a breath of wind. They say the vis is good too.

Dived the Dresden then the Karlsruhe.

The boats are thinning out a bit now as winter approaches but the John L is still going and I shared the wreck with James.

Swapped Kingsbury for Cardiff. I wonder if someone, somewhere will complain.

The anniversary of the Royal Oak today and the Royal Navy were up to raise the white ensign on the wreck.

We dived the Koln then the Tabarka

KPW then Goby.

High quality crew today.

Why are there no blue divers on the Halton?

Because all Halton divers are happy divers!!

These two bucked the trend.

Windy today so just dropped on the Karlsruhe.

A and B jumped in and went diving. D jumped on C and E followed so turned the boat around and picked them all up without any submersion and less a pony bottle. Ho hum.

Koln then Tabarka. They are going to get deja vue this week. Can you predict deja vue? I wonder.

So off they go, merry smiles and skips in the step.

“see you next year”

“you’re the best”

“great diving”

Then you see they start to sneak back into the water on OTHER boats. No shame. No shy deferential glances. No guilty falters. Oh no. They’re off, cavorting and gamboling with other operators all round the country, with butter not melting in their mouths.

Dive tarts, the lot of them. See if i care.

Dresden then F2/Barge. The troops themselves are a mellow bunch too so the mood on the boat feels quite relaxed at the moment, perfect for a happy life but probrably less than interesting reading if you are glued to the blog.

Growing a beard at the moment, ready for the winter weather. Looks good from the inside, even though I say so myself.

Still mellow after the break so largely left the troops to their own devices.

Brummer/Karlsruhe cruiser double bill today. Weather good but forecast poor, vis “good”. They seemed to like the day so a result of sorts!

Somebody stole my camera to extract revenge but all they managed to get that was incriminating was this shot..!!

Oh well, only managed to get a few of my jobs done but at least I have recharged my batteries ready for the final furlong.

Troops burst off the ferry having had a wee bit of a rough crossing: wind was a very strong NW this morning so the ferry came up thru the Flow. Surprisingly, the forecast for the week is not that bad. Will wait and see.

To all those people who looked up at the frame at the top of the Giant’s Legs, turned wistfully to me and asked what it was….. Well, I lied. It’s not the frame they used to hoist the amunition up for the gun.

Its a bunny gallows.

And to top it all, I got the car bogged down right up to the back axle.