by Pat
Weymouth has been a regular fixture on the club calendar for many years
and we had our first of this year’s two trips on 12th-13th
July 2014, diving from the RW TWO ( www.rw-two.co.uk
), a large cat with plenty of room for twelve divers.
Woody the skipper was in good form as always and after finding out we
wanted to do some different sites came up with a good programme for the
weekend.
The weather was calm and sunny on both days, with a nice breeze on
Sunday morning.
On Saturday we dived the Frogner in 36m, a large freighter that was a victim
of WW1, broken up a bit but with plenty to explore and packed with life. We followed
this up in the afternoon with the Gertrude in 18m off Chesil Cove which the
club has not dived for many years. The Gertrude is a small wreck often thought
of as a novice dive but the bonus is you can drift across several small wrecks
in the cove in one dive scattered amongst the boulders. There is plenty of life
including cuttlefish.
On Sunday we did the Binnendijk at 27m in the morning with another
boatful of divers on it. However, once you got out of the debris visibility
wasn’t bad. It is largely broken up but
with some odd blocks of structures including the entire bow section and 2 large
boilers. In the afternoon it was a drift
on Lulworth Banks to pick up a few scallops to go with the lobsters and crabs
for those lucky enough catch them.
Overall a great weekend. Joe was lucky enough to find a torch in
working order, unfortunately it was not one of the two lost by Chris but it was
still nice! Next year we might need to check schedules though, as with the
seafood festival on the quayside was packed with people - loading the cars was
interesting.
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