http://mark.thedeepstop.com Scuba Diving Experiences from Around the World & My Other Interests Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'd been doing a lot of teaching which had involved pool work and shore diving recenty and hadn't had a lot of time for a dive myself. Sharky had Friday off, Andy was back on his leave so we all set off on Andy's boat. Andy wanted to photograph the ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2008/11/15/101-minutes-at-20m-12-degrees-and-acceptable-visibility/ It was about time I've spent years diving around Cornwall and have completed all sorts of dives including a lot of shore dives. Most of my shore diving has been between Newquay and Tintagel on the north coast and Mevagissey to Porthoustock on the south coast. I have heard many people ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2008/11/06/lamorna-cove/ We took 'Atlantic Scuba 1' out last Sunday to dive the wreck of the Caroni Rivers and 'The Old Wall'. The sea was like a sheet of glass and the skies were cloudless. We watched the divers descend the shotline until all we could see were their cylinders in the ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/03/basking-sharks-good-vis/ After a lot of thought I have decided to take this to the next level. I can now offer nearly the whole range of SDI courses from basic Open Water to Deep Diver (40m). Full details on my website at http://www.atlanticscubatec.co.uk I can also offer air to 300 bar. I will ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2008/03/27/atlantic-scuba-diver-training/ 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 ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2007/11/30/milly-no-sphene-not-again/ Friday evenings dive was cancelled as we didn't have a boat. After a quick chat it was decided that we would go and dive the Ezra Weston. Slack water was around 3pm and as it was neap tides slack water should last for a long time. By the time we ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/23/drifting-the-rumps/ Several local divers wanted to have a dive off the north coast of Cornwall, some had never dived the north coast and wanted to see what it was like. Looking at the forecast the south coast was going to be a bit rough anyway, it could even affect the north ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/15/sphene-again/ It's that time of year when we get the biggest spring tides, it also mean sthe smallest neap tides and we didn't want to waste that. We had planned a dive to 60m on H.S. Rewa on either Saturday or Sunday or both, but as we got closer to the ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/01/ss-sphene-and-the-lobster-catcher/ Just outside of the Fal estuary there is an area known by local divers as the cannon ball site. Local divers have brought up many cannon balls from here over the years and every now and then we dive there to see what's around. It was our usual Friday evening ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2007/09/24/cannon-ball-site/ Today saw the second of the two planned dives out of Penzance on Fred Buckingham's 'Pamela P'. We left at the same sensible time of 11:30 and once again decided the dive on route. As our remit was a maximum depth of 60m we were presented with a few options, ... http://mark.thedeepstop.com/2007/09/17/ss-kilmaho/