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Our club has a tradition of doing a Christmas tree dive in December. The event takes place at our training site just outside of town, where we meet, decorate a Christmas tree, put it up under water and swim around it wearing Santa caps and/or costumes. Just for the sheer fun (and heck) of it. This year, the topside temperature was rather benign (some 6 degrees C), the water was kinda warm (8C), and the viz just sucked donkey b@lls due to roughly two storms every week the last couple of weeks. We had pea soup viz - some 2 meters - down to ~15m below, where it cleared up. Kind of. Combine that with a heavy overcast sky at 62 degrees North, and it got so dark down there that we almost had a night dive. We had to attach a dSMB to the top of the tree just to be able to find it after planting it.
Anyway, the point of the Christmas tree dive isn't the dive itself. It's a goofy event just to get together and get another dive during the down season when it's cold and dark and most of the critters seem to have gone into hibernation. So, without further ado, here's a video from this year's event:
[video=youtube;2sZ-kQAjAdM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZ-kQAjAdM[/video]
Anyway, the point of the Christmas tree dive isn't the dive itself. It's a goofy event just to get together and get another dive during the down season when it's cold and dark and most of the critters seem to have gone into hibernation. So, without further ado, here's a video from this year's event:
[video=youtube;2sZ-kQAjAdM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZ-kQAjAdM[/video]
