March
|
| Sun 29
| Stoney Cove
|
| Training and warm-up dive
| 6
| 6
|
May
|
| Sat 2
| Bembridge Ledges
| 0.5m
| Very bad viz. Hermit crabs, and scattered shells.
| 8
| 14
|
| Sun 3
| The Luis
| 1-4m
| Pitch dark but clearer on bottom. Crabs, anemones, starfish
| 8
| 22
|
| Mon 4
| Mixon Hole
| 10m
| Visibility exceptional. Lobsters, edible, swimming, velvet, spider and hermit crabs, Lumpsucker, Dogfish, variety of anenomaes
| 8
| 30
|
|
| Bracklesham Bay
| 0-0.5m
| No viz!!
| 8
| 38
|
| Sun 10
| Nab Tower
| 0.5m
| Pitch dark and silty. Lots of Goldsinny Wrasse, Nudibranches, and Dead Men's Fingers
| 10
| 48
|
|
| Bracklesham Reef
| 2m
| Quite bright. Lobsters crabs and plaice. Loads of hermit crabs
| 10
| 58
|
| Wed 20
| Aeolean Sky
| 3-5m
| Lots of life - Bib, wrasse, crabs, blennies, plaice. Viz reasonable. Very good dive.
| 12
| 70
|
|
| Scallop Beds - Portland
| 1.5-3m
| Quite bright. Lobster + crabs and lots of scallops.
| 11
| 81
|
| Sat 30
| Stoney Cove
|
| Training
| 6
| 87
|
June
|
| Wed 10
| Balaclava Bay - Portland
| 1.5-3.5m
| Supposed to be the M2 but too rough. Very fast drift. Squat lobsters, cuckoo wrasse, pollock, blennies + crabs.
| 6
| 94
|
|
| The Hood
| 1-3m
| Loads of life. Pollock, wrasse, blennies, crabs. Viz not bad. Nice dive considering it was The Hood!
| 6
| 100
|
| Sun 14
| P-12
| n/a
| Got to site early, and engine wouldn't idle properly. Aborted. Five mins at marina with feeler gauge cured problem !!
| 0
| 100
|
| Mon 22
| Binnendijk
| 2m
| Hardboat Skipper advised us not to dive Salsette and offerd this as an alternative
Broken wreck ideal for rummaging - portholes!! Pollack, bib, blennies and nudibranchhes
Very few crustacea.
| 5
| 105
|
July
|
| Sat 4
| Scillies
|
| Steve?
| 120
| 225
|
| Fri 24
| Britannia
| 10m
| Broken wreck. Lots of Lobbies Up slope after to play with seals
| 11
| 236
|
|
| The Hopper
| 8m
| Cliff dive. Big photo oppertunity. Lobbies
| 11
| 247
|
| Sat 25
| Chris Chtistenson
| 10m
| still couldn't find that stern wheel
| 11
| 258
|
|
| ??
| 8m
| v. fast drift dive with upwellings
| 11
| 269
|
| Sun 26
| Somali
| 10m
| Loads of goodies
| 11
| 280
|
|
| Kifestone (south)
| 8m
| about 70 wrecks all piled up - I can smell a bell here !!
| 11
| 291
|
August
|
| Sat 1
| HMS P-12
| 2m
| couldn't find wreck. flat bottom. no life
| 5
| 296
|
|
| Bracklesham Reef
| 0.5m
| 2 lobbies, not much else
| 5
| 301
|
| Sun 16
| SMS Dresden
| 8-10m
| light cruiser
| 12
| 313
|
|
| F2
| 8-10m
| minesweeper and salvage barge
| 12
| 325
|
| Mon 17
| SMS Koln
| 8-10m
| light cruiser
| 12
| 337
|
|
| V83
| 4-6m
| not the rock concert
| 12
| 349
|
| Tues 18
| Kronprinz Wilhelm
| 8m
| battleship
| 12
| 361
|
|
| Gutter Sound
| 10m
| bottle dive
| 12
| 373
|
| Wed 19
| James Barrie
| 15m
| 1969 trawler
| 6
| 379
|
|
| u-boat U201
|
|
| 6
| 385
|
|
| Tabarka
| 10m
| blockship
| 12
| 397
|
| Thurs 20
| Gobenador Borries
| 8m
| blockship
| 12
| 409
|
|
| HMS Roedean
| 3m
| British Minesweeper
| 12
| 421
|
| Fri 21
| SMS Brummer
| 10m
| light cruiser
| 10
| 431
|
|
| SMS Karlsruhe
| 10m
| Light Cruiser
| 12
| 443
|
| Sun 30
| The Luis
|
|
| 8
| 451
|
|
| Bracklesham Reef
|
|
| 8
| 459
|
