On Tuesday evening, Gus, Joe, Vasilis & I made our merry way to Finnart, Loch Long for a couple of training dives. Gus & I took the guys in & on the first dive they did a shared buddy breathing ascent from 15m which was completed well. The 2nd dive involved Joe carrying out a simulated rescue procedure of a casualty from 10m depth. Again this was completed adeptly. Congratulations to Joe on becoming a fully-fledged ScotSAC Sport Diver: he's stacking up his diving qualifications now!
On Sunday, Gus & I headed to the Caves, L. Long. We set off early & managed to arrive first at the lay-by, kit up quickly & submerge at 09:02.
Two great dives!
Although the midges were a killer during the surface interval!
Viz wasn't great - 2m in the plankton bloom down to 10m depth then about 4m - but we discovered a few gems of life & lot of new topography to us today; we now at least know why the site is so named! Gus caught a langoustine but let it go to fight another day. There was an abundance of plumose & sea loch anemones, dead men's fingers and peacock worms adorning the rocky outcrops. We also saw a large number of cuckoo wrasse and a friendly ballan wrasse who stalked us on the first dive. Gus spotted a shoal of pollack & I saw a little conger eel. Also an interesting inorganic object was discovered by Gus...
We even got back to the uni before 2pm: a most successful & smooth diving day!
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