Day 1 – Sunday preparation day

**Alastair** · August 8th, 2007, 10:16 PM

Sunday was our setup day in order to load the boat and prepare gas and equipment. The group travelled to our floating base for the week Grahame Knott’s boat Lamlash. Osama is pictured below very early in the morning where we were moored up.

Cylinders were loaded, analysed and labelled. We had a mixture of divers on the trips with 7 of the 12 diving with 3 stages while others we doing shorter bottom times with a single stage. With most of the wreckage in just deeper than 50m this gave us the opportunity to have both Tech-1 and Tech-2 divers on the trip.

Once gas was sorted much kit fettling occurred with the array of video lights, camera’s, editing PC’s etc. The team also talked through dive plans and watched footage Grahame supplied of the wreck from 1996 from another group of divers.

The team sheet for the week included:

Al Pooley
Andy Kerslake
David Martin
Clare Gledhill
Gareth Lock
Joe Hesketh
John Grogan
John Kendall
Osama Gobara
Ricardo Constantino
Rich Walker
Rob Legg

Grahame Knott
Tom the cabin boy
Monkey the cabin boy

More updates to follow.

Cheers
Al

August 8th, 2007, 10:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Alastair(Offline) DIRX Supporter Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UK Posts: 693	Day 1 – Sunday preparation day Sunday was our setup day in order to load the boat and prepare gas and equipment. The group travelled to our floating base for the week Grahame Knott’s boat Lamlash. Osama is pictured below very early in the morning where we were moored up. Cylinders were loaded, analysed and labelled. We had a mixture of divers on the trips with 7 of the 12 diving with 3 stages while others we doing shorter bottom times with a single stage. With most of the wreckage in just deeper than 50m this gave us the opportunity to have both Tech-1 and Tech-2 divers on the trip. Once gas was sorted much kit fettling occurred with the array of video lights, camera’s, editing PC’s etc. The team also talked through dive plans and watched footage Grahame supplied of the wreck from 1996 from another group of divers. The team sheet for the week included: Al Pooley Andy Kerslake David Martin Clare Gledhill Gareth Lock Joe Hesketh John Grogan John Kendall Osama Gobara Ricardo Constantino Rich Walker Rob Legg Grahame Knott Tom the cabin boy Monkey the cabin boy More updates to follow. Cheers Al __________________ Helium is our friend - GI3