Scapa Flow 6th -13th August 2005 August 15, 2005
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : Dive Reports, UK diving, Wreck Diving , trackbackAll of my diving in 2005 was geared towards this trip. Late in 2004 I agreed to go on this trip being nowhere near able to go in terms of ability and equipment. After 8 months of planning, buying, courses and getting in the water and having some great diving experiences I was ready..ish.
We had an absolutely fabulous trip, the YD trip report thread is found here with everyone’s views and stories.
But here is the awards list as presented by Lou
“Down to business………..The YD GIG ONE AWARDS, as voted for by the full crew…..
Quote of the Week - Gary (WWD) for “If this boat was a bit faster…”
Longest Dive Lisa at 90 mins, which in 12 deg water, doing 2 dives a day for 6 days is pretty good!
Shortest Dive Ian C on CCR…..3 minutes!
Biggest Gas Bill Matt - over £100, just for him and then he had Adam’s tab to pick up too…..oops
Choccie Monster Caroline - for the unrelenting consumption of chocolate for brekkie
Willy Wonka Gary - for supply of above chocolate to all and sundry
Beer of the Week Dark Island - we forgot to decide on this so I have taken a unilateral decision, but I know Adam would approve 
Killer of the Week Ian Airassisted - for his skilled pursuit of baby scallops….and some bigguns too. The wee ones went back, of course.
Kit Jinxer of the Week Ian C….involved in at least two huge failures….we suspect sabotage 
Shot Sinker Extraordinaire Gary, for taking the buoy to visit the wreck and for the quote “I only took it halfway”
Tart of the Week Caroline - for sleeping in the most places….
this was because of …..
Snorer of the Week Gary. Despite some late challenges his jet plane impressions on night 1 are forever etched into our eardrums and he is a deserved winner of this title
Wreck of the Week A tight race but the Kronprinz Wilhelm won it (or Billy 38 as it was known…). Close losers were the F2 & Barge and the Go-bananas.
Most Promising Newcomer Adam - for fitting right in, taking everything in his stride and on his chin.
keeping it in the family….the
Most likely to break a hip Award goes to dad Matt
Most Expensive Kit Breakages is me. One pair of drysuit boots replaced, a dry set of Xerotherm Arctics due to the somewhat “wet” state of my thinsulate and a flooded Halcyon torch…ouch.
Potty Training Certificate Gizmo…….it was only a small bubble apparently…
The Premature Award Ian Airassisted for being caught as he leapt ont he “ready to go” part of “ready to go in 10 minutes”…….on the Tabarka - next stop Norway
Spot of the Week has to be the Basking Sharks…
Product of the Week Aqaustuff, don’t ask. Please. However in my defence, please click here….http://www.aquastuff.co.uk/
Sadly the Bah Humbug Award goes to the team on MV Karin for spoiling some fun…..our revenge was having a much nicer boat, so there!
The Grand Prize….MUPPET OF THE WEEK drum roll, please……………goes to GIZMO! We had a lovely view on our 6m stop of Giz on the wreck, filling his blob to bursting point before letting it go, it whizzed past us closely followed by the jammed reel to which it was attached. In well-trained form he didin’t panic and brought out his back-up blob and spool. He calmly put air into this and let it go and then began winding the line onto his spool like crazy. His buddy, Gary, meanwhile had gone up to about 12 meteres to collect this limp SMB and was bringing it back down to him as he reeled Still, third time lucky ….. we won’t mention that Giz was only deploying because gary lost his gas blob on the way down the shot
And that concludes the awards”
I finally got around to sorting out the pictures from the trip
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[…] Sorting through my blog this evening, I had the opportunity to read back through the Scapa thread from last year on YD and remembered what a good craic we had up there last year. I’ve added all my dive reports to this blog now, they all appear in August 2005 Archive […]