Divers, take a look at this

[Andy]

http://www.divedome.com/

Check out the virtual tour ... just like Stoney!!! NOT.

[Pete7]

But there is something invigorating about queuing at 5 am to get into Stoney Cove on a cold and frosty winter morning, breaking the ice as the first divers jump in, the long queues for last weeks sausage rolls and cold coffee and then a 3 hour drive home. Used to call it character building none of these Greek islands in the sun for us English divers, Stoney in January please or even better Horsey Island

£10,000 would buy a lot of Red Sea holidays or even a rib, but wish them luck, shame the pool is so small, 40m

pete

[thorper]

Originally Posted by Pete7

But there is something invigorating about queuing at 5 am to get into Stoney Cove on a cold and frosty winter morning, breaking the ice as the first divers jump in, the long queues for last weeks sausage rolls and cold coffee and then a 3 hour drive home. Used to call it character building none of these Greek islands in the sun for us English divers, Stoney in January please or even better Horsey Island

Done that many times!!! Its very satisfying to be the first person to the bottom of the pit (before the viz goes).

Ricky

[tue]

So you can go in. Train with PADI and become an open water instructor in about 2hrs . Dive to 27m for an hour then get out have a drink and go for a work out. Hope they've got a Chamber

[thorper]

Originally Posted by tue

Train with PADI and become an open water instructor in about 2hrs .

I take it you have a superior training agency in mind that would take longer?

You could get to Ocean Diver/PADI open water for 2 weekends effort.

Ricky

[ashbypower]

Originally Posted by tue

So you can go in. Train with PADI and become an open water instructor in about 2hrs . Dive to 27m for an hour then get out have a drink and go for a work out. Hope they've got a Chamber

Nah PADI don't need them

Brian

PADI
BSAC and TDI trained before you ask!!

[Bilge Rat]

Wonder if we could get a Ribnet corporate memebership deal ?

[Manos]

Virtual like RIBNet. I prefer the real thing

[tue]

Originally Posted by thorper

I take it you have a superior training agency in mind that would take longer?

You could get to Ocean Diver/PADI open water for 2 weekends effort.

Ricky

If I remember right my BSAC club diver took 2 months, Sport diver 1 Month, Dive leader 2 month, TDI advanced nitrox 1 week and TDI advanced Wreck 1 week. This time gives good oppertunity to perfect all the neccessary skills needed for safe diving before you get near the sea. Of all the PADI divers I've met they all seem to still be learning the basics when diving in the sea to as much as 30m

[Manos]

Originally Posted by tue

If I remember right my BSAC club diver took 2 months, Sport diver 1 Month, Dive leader 2 month, TDI advanced nitrox 1 week and TDI advanced Wreck 1 week. This time gives good oppertunity to perfect all the neccessary skills needed for safe diving before you get near the sea.

You realy think so. And I do not mean to offend any one.

[Brian]

I have got nothing to say on this thread. Just thought I would post a piccie in sympathy with Manos who has been given a hard time elsewhere on this forum.

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by tue

If I remember right my BSAC club diver took 2 months, Sport diver 1 Month, Dive leader 2 month, TDI advanced nitrox 1 week and TDI advanced Wreck 1 week. This time gives good oppertunity to perfect all the neccessary skills needed for safe diving before you get near the sea. Of all the PADI divers I've met they all seem to still be learning the basics when diving in the sea to as much as 30m

Yet the standards required for Divemaster and there instructor grades are very high. Had the opportunity to witness both over the years and was quite impressed.

Think the problem is the frequency that many PADI divers actually get wet. Going diving once a year on a holiday means re-leanring skills over and over whilst the BSAC club system encourages diver to do it all year round either in the open water or teaching in the pool during the winter maintaining the skills.

Pete

[Manos]

Brian not to worry Doesn't bother me one little bit
Now going back to your photo if is you who has taken it this is a GREAT SHOT! Where was this?

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by Brian

I have got nothing to say on this thread. Just thought I would post a piccie in sympathy with Manos who has been given a hard time elsewhere on this forum.

Well with a bit of luck and some global warming this could be Plymouth sound in a decade.

There is already brain coral in sheltered areas of the sound. Just think my smokey diesels could be helping to create something like this

Pete

[Brian]

Manos
That one was off Corsica in the Bay of St. Florent.
This is very near to Cap Mortella, after which place, Martello Towers are named (there are not a lot of people who know that!!).
Now if you want to know why the S. English coastline has Martello Towers built along it, and what the relationship with Admiral Lord Nelson and Martello Towers is, ......................then we will have to spend some time one evening over a couple of bottles of wine discussing it.

[Manos]

Originally Posted by Brian

Manos
then we will have to spend some time one evening over a couple of bottles of wine discussing it.

You are on either during a winter month or may I suggest an even better idea, during summer?