My very good friend Ben has a fantastic roof-terrace on the sixteenth floor in Bethnal Green, it’s got a great view and it’s perfect for summer parties. Many of my photos in Flickr are from his terrace… Well, most weekends this year has been completely useless for any outdoor activites, at least ones you need [...]
Category Archives: diving
Dive Technician course
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I’m going up to Morecambe at the end of this week for two weeks. I’ll be attending a Dive Technician course, to learn how to service regulators and to become a certified tank inspector! It sounds like quite a cool course, even though it’s not really what I want to do later… I guess I [...]
S.E.T.T yet again
Sunday, June 1, 2008
When I was getting on the ferry to Gosport from Portsmouth Harbour to get to the freediving course I spotted this other chap on the ferry who looked about as wound up and eager as myself. Well, I spotted the printed set of directions to the tank that I had another copy of… Anyway, that [...]
S.E.T.T - 23 meters later
Monday, May 12, 2008
Wow! What a weekend, fantastic stuff!
In the end I didn’t quite make it to the bottom, which is 28.5 meters down, but I got down to 23 and I’m happy with that. Just prior to this course I dropped some random comment on how a few meters wasn’t that much difference to experienced freedivers. Only [...]
S.E.T.T
Friday, May 9, 2008
In just a little while I’m getting on a train down to Portsmouth, and I’m very very excited. Possibly not about Portsmouth itself but the freediving course I’m going to attend this weekend!
The course is held in a 30m deep pool that’s usually used for submarine escape training, part of the MOD. I’m hoping that [...]