Penzance trip report

Here is the latest offering from the weekend's trip to Penzance. It is ay

www.clearviz.co.uk/20040710PenzanceUKRS.html

Or

www.clearviz.co.uk and follow 2004 dives

Steve

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:52:22 +0100, Steve Jones wrote:

> Here is the latest offering from the weekend's trip to Penzance. It is ay
>
> www.clearviz.co.uk/20040710PenzanceUKRS.html

Strange you didn't make more of what was your first proper trimix dive.

Jason

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:52:22 +0100, "Steve Jones"
<scuba@clear-viz.co.uk> wrote:

>Here is the latest offering from the weekend's trip to Penzance. It is ay
>
>www.clearviz.co.uk/20040710PenzanceUKRS.html
>
>Or
>
>www.clearviz.co.uk and follow 2004 dives
>
>Steve
>
Hmmm..... For the record:

Danny the fat B@st@rd Burchett was on the lift when it broke, however
I will retell the full story of the happy incident.

I swam onto the platform on the lift, I was trying to hand my dsmb to
the skipper, he took this as an I want to be lifted signal..... As I
am being lifted on my knees I am shouting stop (to be fair to him I
still had my breather loop in but I would have thought I made enough
noise for him to check), I was also shaking my head at him, he is
ignoring me. When I got to the top, on my knees, fins and feet behind
me I told the skipper there was no way that I could stand up from
there with my fins on. He said "What do you want me to do?" I told him
I needed to go back in to be able to get my feet on the platform. He
then pushed a button on the lift then the winch made a nice,
tensioning noise, the cable went very taught then I was in freefall. I
can only presume that he pressed the up button rather than the down
button. Thank God none of my fingers were between the deck and the
lift. The skipper then decided to use the hand winch which had been
repaired recently, and hadn't been tested, and didn't work. So Adrian
and myself dekitted in the water and climbed back onto the boat
(anyone else noticed how having only your drysuit on in open water
without fins makes you feel horribly vulnerable?).

On examination the 6mm steel hawser that was the winch cable was
rusted to f*ck, the place where it had broken was where it would pass
through the top of the frame when the lift was raised and hence get
most abuse as the boat bounces. Few of the strands of the steel hawser
had any signs of fresh breakage on them so the cable was already
shagged, and the backup was untested. We did suggest that ladders are
kind of reliable as a backup, not sure if it was taken on board
though.

Danny (who's loosing weight) Burchett
The box said windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux

Header is false, correct is Danny at danshome dot org

"Jason" <jason.news.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
newsan.2004.07.12.17.51.49.939232@ntlworld.com

>
> Strange you didn't make more of what was your first proper trimix dive.
>
> Jason

Same as the reply to Danny, editorial licence.

It still counts as the most expensive dive that I have done per
metre, and not one that I want to repeat as there was nothing at the
bottom of the shot line except ....sand and rocks, strange absence of
rusty metal. This seems like a recurring theme on the last 2 trips.

Steve



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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:38:56 +0000 (UTC), "Steve Jones"
<steve.jones@wda.co.uk> wrote:

>"Jason" <jason.news.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>newsan.2004.07.12.17.51.49.939232@ntlworld.co m
>
>>
>> Strange you didn't make more of what was your first proper trimix dive.
>>
>> Jason
>
>Same as the reply to Danny, editorial licence.
>
>It still counts as the most expensive dive that I have done per
>metre, and not one that I want to repeat as there was nothing at the
>bottom of the shot line except ....sand and rocks, strange absence of
>rusty metal. This seems like a recurring theme on the last 2 trips.
>
>Steve


At least we got a refund when it happened on littlehampton.

Danny
The box said windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux

Header is false, correct is Danny at danshome dot org

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:38:56 +0000 (UTC), "Steve Jones"
<steve.jones@wda.co.uk> wrote:

>"Jason" <jason.news.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>newsan.2004.07.12.17.51.49.939232@ntlworld.co m
>
>>
>> Strange you didn't make more of what was your first proper trimix dive.
>>
>> Jason
>
>Same as the reply to Danny, editorial licence.
>
lol and there you were laughing at me on the first dive in the Clyde
last year! haha right back atya! ;) and that was 30m twice on 18/40
:D

Glad you got to use the mix in the end.. hopefully next time we'll get
to go a bit deeper.. I've already worked out that the 18/40 I had for
the last trip is too high in O2 for my next trip for which I think I
need 15/50? Need to borrow some tanks I think :(

rich