Another 9am start. Holborough Lakes again (instead of Buckland) for
this month’s well-attended training and shake-down dive. Entry was £10. The
site has good facilities including a compressor and a clean toilet. Today wasn’t
too busy – just us 12, a few other divers, and some bonkers swimmers (sans
wetsuits).
Lee and Victor dived with Steve R and Aaron to do a bimble, controlled
buoyant lifts, rescue breaths, towing and landing a casualty, some of this having
been done in the pool on Wednesday with Geraint and Daniel. Ken took Emily
snorkelling and then for a short dive (curtailed due to ear problems). Frank
dived twice with Corissa, Ken joining them with his rebreather on the second. Sally
and Clive provided shore cover. Audrey and Simon provided encouragement from
the shore.
Frank demonstrated the placebo effect perfectly, requesting more
weights from Sally, unknowingly dropping them, but then descending
satisfactorily. Also of note, the second dive turned out to be Frank’s 500th,
yet he somehow “forgot” to do it just in his trunks.
We were finished by 2pm.
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