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Today was a good day

The last couple of months haven’t been good, the year ended with a sort of personal anniversary I never thought I would have to experience.  I seem to be spiralling into an all time low with no light at the end of the tunnel but today was a good day, I went diving doesn’t sound much does it but it was like taking one of the best drugs you can get.

Andy posted for a buddy and I responded, so we met up at Capernwray this morning.  I was first in the queue so that was a little embarressing, a minute or so later a queue of cars had assembled.  While I waiting for the gates to open I used the time to put my kit together so I would be ready or at least almost ready for when Andy arrived.  I had a hot chocolate and met Andy in the shop.  I headed off to the car to kit up and Andy came down to meet me.  Andy demonstrated his pre-dive checks and asked me to do the same.  Not too bad so far, down we went and headed off along the road towards the horses, we passed these and continued past the Cessna and a boat don’t ask me which one I don’t know, towards the end of the dive Andy gave me a couple of signals I wasn’t familiar with and proceeded to do a S drill, I wasn’t sure what he wanted me to do but I got the message eventually after he was without a reg for longer than I should have left him.  Sorry Andy.  Out of the water and we headed for a surface interval hot chocolate.

We spent the interval chatting about diving and then headed back down for another dive, we did another check and then took a similar route to the first dive except we came across the “cave”, a couple of old cars and another smaller boat. On my previous couple of dives I was spooked by headed over the drop-off but today was fine, maybe it was just another day but maybe I was prepared for something to go wrong, it didn’t and we continued with the dive.  On the far side of the quarry are another couple of platforms where we did a couple of finning exercises and I tried to reach my valves, I am still having problems with this but I am sure it will come in time. We then finned around to the entry/slip way in very shallow water to keep near the bottom.  My diving is feeling better but I am not there yet, as to the other issue I hope to go diving again soon.

January 6th, 2007 Posted by Fiona | Diving | 3 comments