May 09 10 |
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Later in the year a trip to France is planned to do the usual sitting around in cafes thinking of good reasons not to do anything else all day. This is a difficult task and a well balanced team is needed if results are to be achieved smoothly. To make sure that this years effort would not turn out to be suboptimal Andrew organised a meet-up at Cromhall followed by a Bar-B-Q at his place so we could make sure that this years team has a good chance of achieving the goal. There is nothing worse that having a good cafe visit ruined by an over enthusiastic team member suggesting a dive.
At Cromhall Andrew found that his rebreather was leaking from several places. Steve found that his drysuit most defiantly wasn’t. Toby showed that continuing with a dive because there was plenty of gas left was not an option. And I demonstrated the use of a piece of kit that had been lashed together with bungee and cable ties in ten minutes but was wholly inappropriate for the situation. Unfortunately we were all shown up by Andrew R who turned up without any dive gear because it was to much effort to put it in the car. He is not coming on the trip to France but he has set the benchmark for the rest of us. Long cafe stops look to be assured.
After the dive we all departed for the Bar-B-Q which went well and no small furry animals were put on the griddle.
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9 Responses to “Cromhall diving”
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Wow, you got another picture of the famous “Cromhall Monster”!
No such thing. I’ve been in there loads and never seen it, so it can’t exist
Take a mirror next time you go…
Good point Pete, my hood is a little off centre. Clearly a mirror is needed if I am going to achieve the high standards required if I am to become a fully DII compliant diver.
DII ?
Doing It Italian. The basic principle is that it must look good, whether or not it works is secondary as long as sartorial elegance is maintained at all times. I am not finding it an easy skill to learn
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I find that things that look good (i.e. neat) often work better, esp. in extremis when you need stuff to be in just the right place – quick!
DII goes way beyond neat and the idea of compromising the look so that things work is completely against the core principle of the form.
In the picture the gap above my hood is off centre, my mask glass is not tinted to match the colour of my demand valve second stage and there are no visible labels. To fully follow the DII form I would have to take a second mask; not because the first might fail but because my other second stage is a different colour and therefore needs a different matching tint. Clip on fold down tinted over-glasses are not DII.
I think I like DII!