Dover First Timer -Andaman 54m October 19, 2006
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : Dive Reports, UK diving, Wreck Diving , 1 comment so farIt’s been a very dry couple of months recently due to moving house and all that entails and then there is the weather! The last couple of weeks have not been good for getting out diving. I was due to break my Dover duck back at the beginning of the month by diving the Genemar, but the weather put paid to that but thankfully Paul Oliver put up another Dover outing this time to do the Andaman.
Diving from Dover has it’s own challenges, by reputation the vis can be challenging and the busy shipping lanes make it very interesting. The upside to Dover is that usually irrespective of the weather there is normally somewhere that can be dived. Because of the shipping lanes the amount of boat traffic means that free ascending on a SMB is not an option, the way back is back to the shot and up to the safety of the moored boat. In bad vis this means reeling off the shot onto the wreck.
