I've just joined a Facebook group called British pubs, the number of posts from people bigging up their local might have restored my faith a bit.
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I've just joined a Facebook group called British pubs, the number of posts from people bigging up their local might have restored my faith a bit.
Very lucky living in Oxford, some really good pubs, and four excellent pubs plus a micro brewery close to where I live.
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The Friday night is..... music threads.
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Oh FFS. I wish you'd told me that before i splashed out on your Christmas present!
Me too. I'm fortunate to live where I can get decent live music in any one of about four or five pubs within walking distance any night of the week. It's probably spending too much time there that thwarts my attempts to lose weight!
Jameshow
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Same here but I rarely go into them on my own...!
I did a lot of scuba diving. Some of my training included night diving in quarries, including an artificial cave. It really doesn't get much darker than that.
TBH I got a real buzz out of that but I don't believe I am brave. I think we are just all different.
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Way back when, as a civvy, I had to train in escaping from a submarine at the tower in Gosport. Coming out of an airlock at the bottom of 100 feet of water wasn’t frightening, the RN diver who was going to punch us if we weren’t breathing out hard enough was. An experience I would recommend to anyone.
Profpointy
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Was that the tunnel in Vobster ? I quite enjoy diving in tunnels and inside wrecks though am very aware of the risks
No, it was (spelling?) Capenwray.
My favourite wreck was in Egypt. It was only 12 mtrs deep but was heaving with life.
12-20 mtrs was my favourite depth as I particularly enjoyed the marine life and that depth gave plenty of light to see it.
My deepest dive was the Midas Isles off Spain where I went to 44 mtrs (very naughty).
Profpointy
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My favourite wrecks include the Empress of India in Lyme Bay; a pre-dreadnaught battleship sunk in a gunnery trial. It's maybe 45m deep and quite gloomy but huge. There a cross-wise swimthrough amidships which is quite fun albeit a bit scary given the depth and darkness. Like most sunk battleships it's upside down. A a birthday present Mrs PP got me a 1/48 scale scan of the builders' drawings from the Greenwich maritime museum, but I've yet to make the 3m long frame for it.
Another impressive and very sombre wreck is the Leopoldsville, a liner converted into a hospital ship which hit a mine in 1944 with great loss of life. This lies on her side with the shallowest part maybe 45m. We were perhaps a bit gungho in retrospect as it was our first dive after doing a deco course and ran up some 40 minutes deco, which perhaps isn't where you should be starting ! Swapping to a nitrox cylinder at 6m halved it to 20 minutes but still... We did it again at the end of the same week and as we'd been diving a lot, we already had 10 minutes deco showing on our computers just as we reached the wreck !
My other favourites are the battleships and cruisers of the first world war German fleet in scapa flow. All at 35 to 40m to the seabed so not quite as bad as the above. Lots of great swimthroughs on the light cruisers, and also going underneath the upturned big ships to see the gun turrets. Another great dive in scapa is the turrets of the battleship Bayern. The ship itself was salvaged between the wars but the turrets fell out and there they remain looking like 4 large four story buildings - haven't always managed to find my way between the pairs as they are some way apart
Deepest dive was 60m in a quarry on a trimix course but despite doing all the drills and training due to domestic upheaval I never handed in the homework so never got a trimix qualification. That said open circuit trimix is obsolete compared to rebreathers but they are a huge rigmarole and lead into a whole world of rather dangerous diving. I don't mind 50 or 55m on air, though some frown on it and trimix does have benefits for anything over 45m I guess.
Not dived for a while now and all my tanks are out of test and kit full of cobwebs. Also I should really have a diving medical after being hospitalised with pneumonia last year, but I could risk it if only in the UK where insurance claims aren't an issue. Prefer UK wreck dives to holiday stripy fish dives in part because I'd rather just dive with my partner and do our own thing rather than the follow-the-leader thing abroad
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