Milly, No, Sphene, not again!
After yesterdays mis-calculation of the currents we weren’t gonna make the same mistake today, we set off early to dive the Milly. The Milly is shallower and it would be a lot easier to dive if the current did start. Everything was going well until we rounded Pentire Point, there was a lot of chop on the water. We had to back off the throttle to a more comfortable speed, it was now going to take us half an hour of pounding and then it wasn’t going to be nice around the site. We looked at each other and decide that the Sphene was close and it looked a little flatter there. So it was back to the old favourite, that we had dived twice in the last 2 weeks. As the diver kitted up I trolled around looking for the boiler, we don’t use a GPS on this site, just transits, but it would be good to have the exact co-ordinates just in case.
I found the highest point and marked it, then sent the other diver in. I carried along with my trolling and mananged to distinguish the bow section as well. It wasn’t long before the other diver appeared and told me to go in, the vis was excellent. I dropped in and the vis was very good, 10-15m, failing light was a problem for my camera though. I did a couple of circuits and never found any current even though we were now well past slack water, yesterday there was a lot of current, today none.
Always a cracking dive, easy to navigate, shallow and loads of life. Oh well!
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