On Sunday I went to NDC with Ian McDean, we met up at 10am had a cup of tea got kit together. Needless to say there weren't many divers on the site so we didn't have to wait for the van to take us down to the jetty.

You'll be glad to hear that they have finally concreted the road down which is good news for kit and spines all round :)

When it came to dipping the masks in the bucket of water we had to break the ice in the bucket (see pic) so it was definitely going to be lovely and cold :)

We dropped in down to 25m and swam onto the Lynx helicopter which was put in late last year. Viz was ~6-8m which is pretty damn good for the shallow end of the quarry and temp a tropical 6 degC. We did some line laying drills through the tubes / tunnels at 15m, which was good fun and tried to prod the fish at 6m. 40min total, 27m max.

We went up to the portacabin by the shop to eat our packed lunches and drink plenty of hot chocolate.

The second dive was a drills dive at ~10m, we did shut down drills (twin-set), out of air drills and DSMB deployments, all fun (12m, 20mins).

On the way home I decided it would be a good idea to go up the M5 for a change; a long story and a bad move as I got stuck in a traffic jam for 4hrs! It took me 1hr 15mins to get to NDC and 5hrs 30mins to get home :(

Anyway, good diving with plenty of viz, depth and fish (a hell of a lot better than going to the sea) :)