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I do like the high heels one. Wonder why I’ve never seen those though. Probably snapped off !
No. One. have I missed the hills around Hebburn Lakes or are they or it new. One thing if he tips over he will never get up again.
Joking apart I have dived under Ice a few times, odd feeling.
I do like barnacle Bill I bet he smells a bit Ripe.
At the bar it’s a Padi chap not my lot.
Xmas man I think they should dial 999 or stick him in a fridge.
Excellent jokes you must be making these up yourself maybe or you are a good hunter. It must take hours searching to find them as off the normal line of jokes.
Not of those divers is wearing any safety gear, no life jacket or Stab jacket. There is other gear that we used to carry ( encumbered)
The only bailout item is their weightbelts which if ditched may allow the buoyancy of the wet or dry suits to bring them to the surface. However that could create a big problem as then no control so possible air embolism.
The buoyancy of dive suits always suspect as the thickness of the neoprene reduces with depth.
At 10 metres it’s halved 20 mtrs 1/3 30 mtrs 1/4 of surface thickness, hence under a dry suit you wore thermal suits. With a wet suit you just got cold.
Dry suits usually have an air supply to prevent suit squeeze.
When I started I made my own wet suit, you bought a kit.
Then bought wetsuits and then onto dry suits.
First was what we called a bin liner then neoprene. Our chairman in 1971 wore a naval “ Buster Crab” type.
A wet suit is only any use for short shallow dives due to water temperature. By wearing a dry suit and suitable thermals your dive time and comfort extended.
The down side was the amount of lead on your weight belt, I used about 28 lbs against 12 with a wet suit.
These days Scuba diving has got so technical that the mind boggles. Rebreathers, mixed gases, tri mix etc..
The depths that some now go are WHAT?
They will be of a wreck for say one hour and spend 2 or more just getting back to the surface. Then they may go into a POT, a decompression chamber. These are the pro’s of course.
I don’t know what the members of my branch actually do, but it probably is not much more than I and other did up to 2001.
To do the hard stuff requires a lot of gear and time and therefore £
It still fascinating to me, it’s the best sport that I ever did.
My knowledge is now way out of date.
I only wish that I could be able to go up to dive the wrecks in Scapa Flow.
James Amos an old mate of mine many years ago, was in a Local Dive Club. The members went up to Oban on the west coast of Scotland to dive there. One day when they surfaced, one lad (from Whitburn) was missing so some of the lads went back down to look for him. That lad was never found. One day someone might find a Wetsuit with a skelton inside.
The currents around Oban are a bit fierce to say the least.
We lost a lad in September 2001 off St. Abbs Head.
He and his buddy left the 6 mtr deco stop but this chap never surfaced. None of the divers could go back down to search as out of time.
Another boat came to dive the same wreck but no sign.
About 12 months later his hood with his skull was brought up in trawl net. No other bits or gear ever found.
I had dived with the lad in the August on the outer Farnes.
After that incident I stopped diving because Ann and the family asked me to stop. It was getting too expensive anyway and I had lost my well paid job plus now into cycling with Ann.
After a body has been in the water for some time the flesh is gone, eaten. By whatever and at some point the remains will lift off the sea bottom and drift away unless snagged by the divers gear or wreckage etc. This due to the buoyancy of the neoprene suit material. Different if suit is of the bin liner type.
There will be a difference between a wet suit and a dry suit wearer.
Decomposing quicker if a wet suit probably as sea water already inside the suit but with a dry suit it’s until the neck and wrist seals go.
No one knows exactly what happens it’s just educated guess, and there being so many variables.
If I could have afforded to continue diving I think I would have but limited to the less risky places ie shallower wrecks or scenic stuff.
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