Another UK newbie

[Scuba Jim]

Hi Shaun

Yes, that's some ways from here.

I didnt know you could dive in Bewl Water? If so, I doubt it's much use! It's pretty murky.

(Don't tell anyone, but I don't dive in the UK anymore!)

Regards
Jim

 

[Shaun]

Hi Jim,

Yes, that's some ways from here<<
Navigation was never my strongest point! I thought it was just over the border in East Sussex from you - better dig out my map again.

Regards,

Shaun

 

[Scuba Jim]

Hi Shaun

What I meant was Margate was a long way from here!

Bewl is about say 30-35 minutes from us.

Regards
Jim

 

[Shaun]

Ah... a misunderstanding.

A quick search on the wire produced quite a bit about Bewl.
Although their web site at www.southernwater.co.uk/knowledge_zone/environment/bewl_water/ doesn't specifically mention diving.

Might be worth a dip if the weather put the coast off limits.

Regards,

Shaun

 

[Scuba Jim]

Hi Shaun

If I recall Bewl is pretty shallow and murky. I would have thought one of those lovely quarries in the Midlands would be so much more inviting

You may also find your head being sliced open by the keel of a yacht!

Regards
Jim

 

[Shaun]

You must know something I don't know....
>>I would have thought one of those lovely quarries in the Midlands would be so much more inviting <<
Do such places exist?
:lol:

Regards,

Shaun

 

[Jonathan]

Bewl is actually quite deep - there's a village at the bottom!

I used to sail there as a kid. I don't think there is any diving there though - as mentioned it is rather busy with all those dingys and windf surfers.

Jonathan

 

[Scuba Jim]

Hi stand corrected! Thanks Jonathan. If there is a village at the bottom then I would have thought it would be a worthy dive. But still not as nice as those lovely quarries oop north!

 

[Shaun]

From what I'd seen on the web the place possibly looked worthy of a visit, hence my questions...

>>Bewl is actually quite deep << Which is more attractive than most of the SE's ponds... Leybourne at 9m, Wraysbury at 12m, Lakeside 12m etc.

>>there's a village at the bottom!<< Again... something more interesting than the normal dead cars that typically adorn inland sites...

I see from the PADI web site
www.padi.com/padi/offices/pil/news/pil_aware/022502-britishdivers/
that there was even a "Marine Mammal Medic Course" organised there last January! Can't be many whale or dolphin sightings in inland reservouirs


Regards,

Shaun

 

[Scuba Jim]

Shaun

You not heard of the rare and indigenous Bewl Freshwater Porpoise?

Jim