http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com Dive Tales Thedeepstop.com weblog Thu, 10 May 2007 12:18:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   It was one of my early dive expeditions we’d had an idyllic week, camping on the shores of this rather isolated loch and going out in the boat, hot sunshine long- summer days and good diving.  We were diving out of the loch and had gained permission to dive on ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2007/05/10/beginners-luck/ It was early morning June 1984 dawn light had just crept in I stood alone in the wheel house, my other diving companions asleep below .The only noise the whirring of the ships radar. Looking out of the windows I traced the crescent shore line of the bay and peered ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/30/the-edge-of-the-world/  Hearing that this wreck wasn’t dived much sounded interesting, with this in mind I was tempted for a days diving off Anglesey. Now I’ve always had a bit of a love hate relationship with Anglesey, some report of mint vis, others of pea soup, myself I’ve had good and bad ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2007/03/31/the-air-hammer-kid/ We had had a good days diving launching earlier that morning at the village of Little Haven in Pembrokeshire. So it was that 4 divers and rib returned and crept into the now very sandy bay. Things were different on our return we anticipated the tide would be out, what we ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2007/03/03/recovery/ It was one of those weekends that I should have been diving with my regular group in the Clyde but domestic commitments at home meant I had to give this particular trip it a miss..   With afternoon at home my attention was drawn listening to the local radio to the ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2006/05/10/i-learnt-from-this/ Again witnessing someones misfortune of a flooded dry suit in this case the comfort zip not properly shut brought an earlier misfortune of mine rushing back, it's so easily done.  Let me set the scene, picture four drysuited divers sat in a rib on a warm summers day anchored waiting for slack above a ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2006/03/31/semi-dry/ In these days of Hi Tec Torches Hid and otherwise its difficult to imagine that there was a time when divers were very limited in what was on offer.  Many a home brew contraption was concieved. When I first started diving my group of buddies were always on the lookout for a cheap way ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2006/03/28/let-there-be-light/ Listening to the Shipping forcast the previous week did nothing for my confidence in getting out in the water 6's and 7's slap bang in the area i was to be going. Fortunately it died off as the departure date got nearer.I like as far as possible to be organised for long ... http://parahandy.thedeepstop.com/2006/03/23/mulling-it-over-friday-and-saturday/