SOUTH DEVON
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I had my first experience with my new diving club on Saturday, got up at 6 AM first shock,
second shock was I didn't quite realise how wet you get on a small inflatable Rib, it was like somebody constantly throwing buckets of water in my face, I'm glad I had my dry suit on!
The first dive was through a kelp forest at 15 m, which was not very interesting, but gave me a chance to play with my buoyancy in my new dry suit.
The second dive was 20 m exploring a very large and intact Second World War shipwreck which was excellent, along with very good visibility(which was surprising considering rough seas),
after everyone had dived, the sun was going down, and the seas had picked up even more , now in a force 6 wind and the skipper decided that we must quickly get back to base before it gets dark.
Well it started off as good fun as we headed back at full throttle jumping over the waves and watching the red sky, then it became damn right scary as the waves became bigger and the boat spent most of the time flying out of the water then crashing back down in the dips the engines roaring in protest out of the water.
The skipper all in black looked like a demon possessed and I asked his wife whether he drove his car like this !
I really started to feel that we wasn't going to make it , as the waves became bigger, I thought surely it is only a matter of time before the boat flips over, we was holding on so tight that the rope around the rib was being pulled off its attachments, luckily we was also holding on to a centre rail .
Everyone else on the rib looked reasonably calm, I'm not sure whether they was just putting on a brave face or not.
After about 40 minutes as we flew around the headland (quite literally) the seas became calmer and I realised that we were safe .
It was an excellent adventure although very scary but I can't wait to go with them again.
Anybody else have any scary boat experiences?
second shock was I didn't quite realise how wet you get on a small inflatable Rib, it was like somebody constantly throwing buckets of water in my face, I'm glad I had my dry suit on!
The first dive was through a kelp forest at 15 m, which was not very interesting, but gave me a chance to play with my buoyancy in my new dry suit.
The second dive was 20 m exploring a very large and intact Second World War shipwreck which was excellent, along with very good visibility(which was surprising considering rough seas),
after everyone had dived, the sun was going down, and the seas had picked up even more , now in a force 6 wind and the skipper decided that we must quickly get back to base before it gets dark.
Well it started off as good fun as we headed back at full throttle jumping over the waves and watching the red sky, then it became damn right scary as the waves became bigger and the boat spent most of the time flying out of the water then crashing back down in the dips the engines roaring in protest out of the water.
The skipper all in black looked like a demon possessed and I asked his wife whether he drove his car like this !
I really started to feel that we wasn't going to make it , as the waves became bigger, I thought surely it is only a matter of time before the boat flips over, we was holding on so tight that the rope around the rib was being pulled off its attachments, luckily we was also holding on to a centre rail .
Everyone else on the rib looked reasonably calm, I'm not sure whether they was just putting on a brave face or not.
After about 40 minutes as we flew around the headland (quite literally) the seas became calmer and I realised that we were safe .
It was an excellent adventure although very scary but I can't wait to go with them again.
Anybody else have any scary boat experiences?