| Good to hear Pete!
Ok it's time to set the scene for tommorrows dive.
Its been raining very heavily for the past two days, and the Tamar river is flowing quite heavily out into Plymouth Sound (the natural harbour), hence an enormous amount of runoff with silt and mud. This does not always cause a problem as if the tides are right the vis can be reasonable (3m). If the tides are wrong then 1m is possible, it just means you get closer to the sea life before it sees you!
Recent conditions have been a regular 12m of viz with sea temperature running at 6-7 degrees (thats as low as it gets around here).
Sea state has been building recently with a swell causing abit of bobbing up and down on the boat (Aquanaut being a 42 foot Lochin, she rocks a bit, but can do any weather) 12 divers can fit on board and undercover if needs be (one night it was snowing as we headed back in!). So a run for a sheltered dive site will be the call for tommorrow.
Sealife can be rather varied through out the year, so I will try to give you all a taste for what we have on each dive. I will use the common names generaly but as I get more familier with the the latin terms I will include those as well.
There will be limitations to the details (my own limited ability!), but hang in there it will get better.
Any comments on what to include more of/ leave out etc is welcome, after all the idea is to give you a weekly roundup of what is happening in our waters.
Hope you all look forward to it!
Martin |