Anybody dived around Athens

I did the dives - coldest I have ever dived at 14 degrees .... never again
in a wetsuit.
I must have wheezed away 20-30 bar in first 2 minutes the shock was that
bad, simply could not get my breath.

To be honest the diving was not good ... sod all fish, just rocks anemones &
star fish.
managed to track down a couple of small octopus .... well I enjoyed the
break, and gave the kit a check out prior to Sharm next month.


"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Rick,
>
> Be aware of flying-diving-flying. If you dive the whole weekend, you can't
> fly on sunday-night or monday morning!
>
> Frank
>
> <rick_hughes@btconnect.com> schreef in bericht
> news:1141671331.714754.31150@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>>I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
>> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
>> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
>> in-country.
>>
>> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
>> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
>> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>>
>> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
>> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
>> is more than enough.
>>
>
>

I did the dives - coldest I have ever dived at 14 degrees .... never again
in a wetsuit.
I must have wheezed away 20-30 bar in first 2 minutes the shock was that
bad, simply could not get my breath.

To be honest the diving was not good ... sod all fish, just rocks anemones &
star fish.
managed to track down a couple of small octopus .... well I enjoyed the
break, and gave the kit a check out prior to Sharm next month.


"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:440d8bda$1$29226$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> Rick,
>
> Be aware of flying-diving-flying. If you dive the whole weekend, you can't
> fly on sunday-night or monday morning!
>
> Frank
>
> <rick_hughes@btconnect.com> schreef in bericht
> news:1141671331.714754.31150@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>>I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
>> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
>> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
>> in-country.
>>
>> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
>> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
>> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>>
>> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
>> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
>> is more than enough.
>>
>
>

I did the dives - coldest I have ever dived at 14 degrees .... never again
in a wetsuit.
I must have wheezed away 20-30 bar in first 2 minutes the shock was that
bad, simply could not get my breath.

To be honest the diving was not good ... sod all fish, just rocks anemones &
star fish.
managed to track down a couple of small octopus .... well I enjoyed the
break, and gave the kit a check out prior to Sharm next month.


"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:440d8bda$1$29226$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> Rick,
>
> Be aware of flying-diving-flying. If you dive the whole weekend, you can't
> fly on sunday-night or monday morning!
>
> Frank
>
> <rick_hughes@btconnect.com> schreef in bericht
> news:1141671331.714754.31150@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>>I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
>> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
>> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
>> in-country.
>>
>> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
>> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
>> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>>
>> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
>> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
>> is more than enough.
>>
>
>

I did the dives - coldest I have ever dived at 14 degrees .... never again
in a wetsuit.
I must have wheezed away 20-30 bar in first 2 minutes the shock was that
bad, simply could not get my breath.

To be honest the diving was not good ... sod all fish, just rocks anemones &
star fish.
managed to track down a couple of small octopus .... well I enjoyed the
break, and gave the kit a check out prior to Sharm next month.


"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:440d8bda$1$29226$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> Rick,
>
> Be aware of flying-diving-flying. If you dive the whole weekend, you can't
> fly on sunday-night or monday morning!
>
> Frank
>
> <rick_hughes@btconnect.com> schreef in bericht
> news:1141671331.714754.31150@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>>I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
>> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
>> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
>> in-country.
>>
>> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
>> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
>> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>>
>> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
>> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
>> is more than enough.
>>
>
>

I did the dives - coldest I have ever dived at 14 degrees .... never again
in a wetsuit.
I must have wheezed away 20-30 bar in first 2 minutes the shock was that
bad, simply could not get my breath.

To be honest the diving was not good ... sod all fish, just rocks anemones &
star fish.
managed to track down a couple of small octopus .... well I enjoyed the
break, and gave the kit a check out prior to Sharm next month.


"El Mecky" <elmecky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:440d8bda$1$29226$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> Rick,
>
> Be aware of flying-diving-flying. If you dive the whole weekend, you can't
> fly on sunday-night or monday morning!
>
> Frank
>
> <rick_hughes@btconnect.com> schreef in bericht
> news:1141671331.714754.31150@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>>I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
>> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
>> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
>> in-country.
>>
>> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
>> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
>> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>>
>> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
>> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
>> is more than enough.
>>
>
>

I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
in-country.

Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?

They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
is more than enough.

rick_hughes@btconnect.com wrote:
> I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
> in-country.
>
> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>
> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
> is more than enough.


to give you the shivers.
7mm, semidry. At least.

Matthias

14-15 degrees? Definitely thick semidry. These temperatures are typical for
Dublin summer diving where we're all in either 7mm semi's or 5mm shortie
over 5mm longjohn with hood of course. I dived in Croatia where water temp
was late teen early twenties, I was wearing 5mm with hood but even at this I
was getting cold towards the end of the dive. 5mm in 14-15 degrees sounds
like a short chilly dive. I depends what your tolerance to cold is etc but
I'd agree with Matthias.
"Matthias Voss" <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:dui1db$9uc$02$1@news.t-online.com...
> rick_hughes@btconnect.com wrote:
>> I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
>> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
>> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
>> in-country.
>>
>> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
>> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
>> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>>
>> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
>> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
>> is more than enough.
>
>
> to give you the shivers.
> 7mm, semidry. At least.
>
> Matthias
>

Rick,

Be aware of flying-diving-flying. If you dive the whole weekend, you can't
fly on sunday-night or monday morning!

Frank

<rick_hughes@btconnect.com> schreef in bericht
news:1141671331.714754.31150@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>I am going to Athens on business at end of the month, and throught I
> would stay the weekend .. get in 2 days diving.
> The cost to me is then only the dive charges as I will alreday be
> in-country.
>
> Looked around the PADI web site and found the 5star IDC centre - Agean
> Dive Centre who can fit my dive times in no problem ... anybody dived
> around Athens (Glyfada), and anybody dived with Agean Dive Centre ?
>
> They advise the water temp is around 14-15 degree ... thus will be the
> coldest I have been, but they are confident that a 5mm wet suit & hood
> is more than enough.
>

last dive will be finished at 2pm Saturday ... flight back 7pm Sunday
.... so .24 Hrs