My Diving

                                   

Dive qualifications

PADI Open Water

PADI Advanced Diver

PADI Medic first aid (Expired)

IANTD Advanced Nitrox Diver

 

Logged dive:

303 dives, logged over 11 years.

           

Deepest dive:

50.4m / 150ft

 

Areas I have dived around

            North Wales

Dorathia Quarry

Vivian Quarry

St. Tudwell Islands (Abersoch)

Bull Bay (Anglesey)

Treaudure Bay (Anglesey)

Merseyside

Blue Planet Aquarium – Shark Dive

            Lake Districts

                        Capernwray Quarry (Carnforth)

            York

                        York Diver Training College

North East coast

Farne Islands (Sea Houses)

            Scotland

                        Fort William

                        Inverkip – Diving the Clyde

Oban – out to outer hebrides

                        Scapa Flow (The Orkneys)

Shetland Islands

            Ireland

Crete

            Lanzarote

           

Types of diving

            Wreck Diving

            Quarry Diving

            Scenic Diving

            Night Diving

            Drift Diving

            Dive Training

           

A little bit on how I developed my skills

            I have been intrigued by diving for a number of years prior to me taking a ‘Discover Scuba course’ back in 1997. I soon got the bug and took my qualifications with a PADI instructor up to the IANTD Level. I even tried to complete the PADI Rescue Diver course, however was unable to pass as I found the search / rescue swim back whilst rescue breathing getting the diver out of the water whilst not missing a rescue breath and de-kitting them and me a tad exhausting. However this improved my skills no end and just because I don’t posses the qualification does not mean that in an emergency I would not be able to cope. I met a lot of dive buddies through the dive school and there is still a core of 12 divers who regularly meet up and go away. We are all now at different levels. (Some use re-breathers, done trimix and dive regularly to 70 – 100 meters.). I am still happy on my single cylinder, with pony, diving around 30 meters. I regularly organise trips for the group and at one time even run a club which run a boat out of Pwllheli in North Wales.

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