Sound of Mull – September 2005 – Trip Report

This was another fantastic bit of diving for the weekend, which meant that in 2005 I had managed to dive the north & West of Scotland and had a fabulous time. The weather was atrocious all weekend but the diving was excellent and hispania is by far my most favourite wreck that I want to go and explore again, it was truly stunning. The sound was just great. More reports and pictures are available on YD.

My first time

Thankfully things are work, worked in my favour and I was able to get to Lochaline for the Friday afternoon dive on the Thesis.
I buddied up with John Mitchell who was running sea trials on his new inspo. A thoroughly pleasant dive onto the Thesis, with a little current running. Apparently that is the worst vis that John has ever dived on it, seemed good to me!!!

Back up the shot and we were looking a little like flags in the wind, when Paul, John and I got to the top of the shot at 10m, it was time to let go and bag off. Unfortunately Paul and John did without we noticing and when they let go of the shot I started a rather quick journey towards the surface, so let go and bagged up myself, all good fun.

For Saturday and Monday I buddied Porg, which included Rondo and Hispania and two wall dives on Calf Island and an unpronouncable wall I can’t remember.

Rondo had been one of the wrecks I wanted to do, having not had the opportunity to see a wreck almost vertical on a reef wall before. I really enjoyed this one, which included probably the most interesting 6m stop I have completed yet. It was great being able to complete all the stops on the wreck having a good look around, even got to take my first pic of a nudibranch, (not a particularly good pic, have to work on the macro shots!)

Monday was probably the best day for the diving and this was Calf Island and Hispania. It was fantastic to drop down a 45m wall and try and take it all in, but Hispania was excellent and the 60 minutes we spent on that dive was far too short, next time I will not spend as much time absorbing the anemome wall that is the hull!!!

Thanks to Fiona for running with this one, a really good weekend. It was excellent to catch up with people again and met some new faces.

Helen FH – As ever thanks for buddying up again, it is always a pleasure to go diving with ya!!!

Can’t wait for the return…………

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