Techwise Nappies

Alan has purchesed some new equipment..

There’s been a bit of confusion around the dive centre about bow to wear it.....

Alan clearly didn’t understand how this piece of equipment functions...

Until Anne Japan demonstrated how it should be done ...

So now to Frans dismay, he’s getting his head around it...

Steve has just gone out to do a check dive on the house reef with Oskar and Sverre who are out here for two weeks from Norway and are starting their Advanced Recreational Trimix course. Steve's taken the camera so we will have to wait for the photos to come back ...

Tech 65

Sasha, Irene and Arthur, three tech divers training for Tech 65 with Alan have been busy this last week. They went on a pleasure dive to the MV Karwela on Gozo for a bit of a break the other day. Sarah one of our instructors lead them out to the wreck. There were lots of Squid egg sacs about ...

Yesterday they had a more serious dive to the Faroud.

It appeared to Sasha and Arthur that Alan and Irene were having a competition for who had the most challenging dry suit to get into ....

Alan gave them some lovely simulations to deal with. They had to switch to back up plans and had to deal with a loss gas ascent followed by a loss deco switch. Which they handled well.

Alan also took his side mounts in to pracice with.

They also handled my first attempt at driving the van Harriet rather well, but to be honest I think they were so tired after the dive they probably weren’t paying much attention to it.

This morning they were up early to get their equipment ready for a 65m di

ve to the bow of the HMS Southwold.

Tech Diving ... a whole new ball game!

My names Steph. I started working at Divewise/Techwise about a week ago as a part time recreational Instructor and part time office worker. I am supposed to be writing a blog for all you Tech divers. I have a bit of a problem. I have never actually done any tech diving. However Alan seems set on teaching me. The little have seen of tech diving in the last week has shown me people love it. I don’t think I’ve met anyone yet who has tried Tech diving and not got hooked on it.

I also know from helping load the vans that the equipment is about as heavy as me! Fran one of our recreational Instructors has tried Tech diving and she’s so tiny her knees actually give way under the weight and she ends up sat down about 3 times on the short walk to the entry point. If you hav'nt already guessed Fran is on the right ....

I’m going to be telling you a lot about what other Tech Divers are up to at Techwise but I’ll also share some of my learning experiences with you so you can all have a laugh at my expense. Because this is going to be a huge learning curve for me I may get things wrong in the blog, so feel free to correct me. Honestly I will appreciate it! Hopefully some of you will be coming out to dive with us this year, so you can give me some advice! You may even get to witness my seahorse impersonations, of which I’m sure there will be many!