DIR Diving Blog

DIR-UK weekend this time using Scimitar Diving down in Weymouth. First day was the wreck of the Minerva – I’ve not actually dived it before. The visibility was very good possibly as much as 10m and the wreck is very ship shaped. It’s a bit small for a group of 8 divers but we all managed to stay out of each others way.

Second day we dived and unknown believed to be the Ull. The Ull was a 500t Norwegian steamer lost in 1917. Nick Chipchase had given us the marks and we had the opportunity to look it on the sonar on the way back from the Minerva. Diving the wreck was actually a lot of fun. There was a lack of light down at 50m and it meant the small wreck felt much bigger than it was. It was heaving in Lobsters with so many of them you could tell it was almost undived. We spent 40mins on the bottom and had a really good look round. Clare found the helm which was cool but we’ve always said we’d only lift a bell.

Scimitar did a good weekend overall. Food and care on the boat from Gary who was acting as a deck hand was ace!

Spent last weekend helping Clare out on a fundamentals class at the NDAC. Visibility was challenging and the class had 5 students so Clare had to do double the normal dives i.e. one team in first, stay in the water and get the second team in.

It was actually really good fun, very good group on the class and I really enjoyed helping out.