The YD 3 Farnes Gig June 2005 June 26, 2005
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : Dive Reports, UK diving , add a commentFollowing hot on the heels of the St Abbs gig, Claire and I travelled down from our dives there to meet up with the other YDers meeting in Seahouses for the Farnes weekend.
This was as much about the social life as it was about the diving, but the diving was still good. The main reason to dive from Seahouses on the Farne islands is to dive with the seals and although the numbers were down we still had the opportunity to see them shooting around in the water.
As ever with the big YD events there is a trip report, this time started by Dougie, to read that click here, Claire’s version of events is on page 2
I thoroughly enjoyed this area and look forward to going back to dive the area with Lisa, as this is the sort of diving she would love. It is all wall diving with fantastic sea life, whereas the south coast is mainly based around the wreck diving.
A thoroughly enjoyable destination.
YD 3 - St Abbs before Farnes June 25, 2005
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : Dive Reports, UK diving , 2commentsThis was the pre event to the YD3 North gig, two days worth of diving out of St Abbs just over the border into Scotland.
My buddy for this trip and the subsequent Farnes dives was Clare (Gledders from YD), we travelled up Thursday evening to arrive around Midnight ready to go diving on the Friday. Claire posted a bit of a trip report on YD - to read that click here
As a brief summary, the first dive was a drift along the coast line called Black Carr, where we managed to lose Claire. As we were diving in a three and had agreed that if we got seperated and everything was comfortable to carry on on our planned tim which was 40 minutes this wasn’t so much of a concern. However Helen and I surfaced a few minutes early as she thumbed the dive. Black Carr itself was itself very enjoyble as a drift dive, with lots of life, including pollack, anemones and dead mens fingers gracing the rocks.
Our second dive was Skelly cove, which again was very pretty, with lots of gullies, nooks and crannies to look around.
A very enjoyable place to go diving, Pete and Billy the skippers are excellent and very laid back making it a very pleasant experience.
Adv Nitrox and Deco - 10/11/12 June - Portland June 13, 2005
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : UK diving , add a commentNumber of times Garf asked JAG if we really had to get up at 4am - 6
Number of Times J.W. looked like he was going to cry when I told him what time we were getting up - 1
Number of Hours sleep we got - 4
Number of hours sleep we could have had if we hadn’t listened to Jag - 6-7
Number of times Garf swore at Jag on the way to portland - LOTS
Number of times we arrived far too bloody early and had to wait for everyone else to arrive - 1
Number of times we laughed before we left about people who bungied themselves to rails - 2
Number of times Gizmo bungied himself to the rail -1
Number of Times J.W. laughed at Gizmo for bunging himself to the Rail - 1
Number of Times J.W. Bungied himself to the rail - 1
Number of times JAG laughed at people for Bunging themselves to the rail - 2
Number of times JAG Bungied himself to the rail - 1
Number of times Garf Laughed at everyone - 4
Number of times Garf danced around the bar grasping his leg and doing a ridicious “Cramp Dance” - 1
Number of minutes everyone laughed at Garf - 6
Number of sets of Keys issued to Garf, Jag and JW - 2
Number of minutes it took Garf to lose keys - 3
Number of Keys returned to Hotel - 1
Number of times Gizmo failed to bungie his twinset to the rail and watched it fall over, smashing the first stage out of the cylinder - 1
Number of times Gizmo looked as if he was about to cry - 1
Number of times JW convined Garf to attempt to lift a lost weightbelt with about 15kg in it - 1
Number of Bars of gas used in the 2 minute it took Garf to realise he was being a shit-for-brains even trying to do simulated deco stops holding 15 extra kg - 40
Number of Yank Bungers andd Chips ordered over weekend 16
Number of times JAG asked the barmaid for “I’d love a yank and chips please” - 2
Number of minutes the double entendre kept everyone giggling like schoolgirls - 4
Number of qualifications earned - 4
Number of times Gasmuncher was asked to Dive with Garf - 4
Number of Times Gasmuncher descended with Garf - 3
Number of times Gas muncher surfaced with Garf - 2
Number of times Gas muncher did Wreck Dive - 2
Number of Wrecks Gas Muncher saw - 1
It was a belter of a weekend, everyone passed their course, and I had a great time keeping an eye on everyone. Weather was superb, dives were superb, and we all had a bloody good laugh. Diving dooesn’t get much better.
I’m sure the individual members of “the team” will be along to post proper reports soon, but I had a great time 
