Orkney + Plymouth Trip Report

Hi Fiona,

Ah, U18 - three attempts and only the first was successful. It is a good
dive when the gods are on your side and not trying to drag you far into the
North Sea or to the bottom along with the deco station!

Regards to all up there. I haven't been flying around the islands recently
so haven't heard Ian's dulcet tones over the RT. As I recall the last time
I heard him he was holding off before landing at Kirkwall whilst we were
making an instrument approach with a minor hydraulic problem.

Safe diving

Regards

Alan Clegg


"Fiona Watson" <fiona.watson@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2004071617143870115@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <2lpnguFf5gi2U1@uni-berlin.de>
> from "Imorital" <me@privacy.net> contains these words:
>
> >
>
> > We tried for a second dive, but the weather blew us out. I'm back up in
2
> > weeks time.
>
> The north isles weather has not been kind this year - it's blown a
> consistent NW5 for 2 weeks now, so guess there'll be triangles in the
> sea there just now :( - when are you back, I'm kind of thinking about
> going down for a weekend, as Boffin is leaving for Antarctica in 3
> weeks, so I'll drag him out diving somewhere first :), preferably on the
> Karin
>
>
>
> > U297 is a pretty good dive. Probably better than the M1. The memorial
is
> > still there. I didn't see the bones, neither did I see any open
hatches.
> > We could see the shot from both ends
>
> The others said it was great, after I'd had to head north again due to
> work, but never mind - their report was a little different the the
> 'other one' too - although Bof has a couple of pictures looking down the
> conning tower hatch which are good, there's no bones on that either.
> I dived the M1 for the first time this year, I enjoyed it even though
> the shot missed - the other one I want to see is the u18, of which I've
> seen the sea nearby :)
>
> > She was shallower than reported - perhaps because of the neap tides.
>
> > Cheers
> > Matt.

Fiona Watson wrote:

> The north isles weather has not been kind this year - it's blown a
> consistent NW5 for 2 weeks now, so guess there'll be triangles in the
> sea there just now :( - when are you back, I'm kind of thinking about
> going down for a weekend, as Boffin is leaving for Antarctica in 3
> weeks, so I'll drag him out diving somewhere first :), preferably on the
> Karin

Yeah... our Shetland trip had to turn into a North Orkney trip due to
the ten foot swell and gales...

Next time!

Ben

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