Four of us ventured down south to dive off the coast of the Isle of Wight, Once we had recovered a lost diver (he had no road name for his sat nav), we loaded the boat Buccaneer and chugged off towards Sandown Bay. Plenty of room as only 6 divers on board.

First dive was the Wreck of the Camswan  a fairly large upright wreck, 4m in places, quite a good dive with reasonable viz.  There was plenty of life with the usual south coast stuff (pollock, bib, small crabs, blennies, gobies).  Apparently there are congers on this wreck but didn’t see any. Managed to find the boilers (big round circular thing with grids of holes) and what could have been the front or back of the wreck (sorry aft/stern).

Second dive was on the er ledges er didn’t actually find a ledge so swam around in ½ m viz at 8m for 40 mins probably going rounds in circles. Not much life about, a few small fish and small crabs, some kelp and weed and some mooring lines – although it might have been the same one.  Not a great second dive, well it was actually quite boring, both me & Mark F both said afterwards how on earth do you make this dive interesting for novice divers.  However it was still a good day out (of the office) as it was sunny and warm.

More lessons to be learned from the days diving:

• Try to remember to untie your cylinder from the rack before diving especially after you have told everyone else to remember this.

• Navigation – if the skipper says head South East this means for all of the dive not just part of it North West is nowhere near South East on the compass

Other news – Litter picking at the Havering show on the bank holiday weekend – great fun – no really!
Paintball  -  No details but I understand it was a case of shoot the crap out of the Treasurer and he hurt his back …aaaarrrrrr.

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