Poseidon's Parlour: The Power of ZAF

Gentle Ben and dive date!

It is a little known fact that the cumulative energy caused by the coming together of the Zookeeper, the Announcer and Frewbowski can form a gravitational singularity so powerful as to cause the planets to align and weather patterns to shift. We call this the Power of ZAF.

Nature, as anyone who has dived with us will know, respects this power and, like the opening the scenes of the Lion King, comes to pay homage when we enter the water. Humans too aren't immune and without realising can be drawn to the source of the gravitational singularity even before it occurs.

So, when we finally arrived at Seal Reef, St Catherines we found two cars. The first car belonged to Gentle Ben of Aquatron, who was on a romantic dive date... with a real live lady called Lyn. I was already a little giddy from the funky smell of my Fourth Element Arctic undersuit and the fact that the rain had departed permitting the sun to come out, and immediately sensed the seeds of romance floating in the air. I ensured the atmosphere was conducive to love.

Then I noticed the other divers in the water. They too, clearly drawn to the site by the power of ZAF. Turns out it was two members (Campbell & Marion) of the ScotSAC club of which I too am notionally a member.

Our plan tonight was to head down to the wrecked speedboat, look for catsharks to add to the Scottish Shark Database and generally carry-on in and around the reef. In total, we found and sexed (it's far less sinister than it sounds) five small spotted catsharks, but en route we found the wreck, a stunning firework anemone, played with some langostines, found a nice big conger eel and beautiful cushion star.

On the way back we saw an excellent assortment of little critters including a long legged spider crab (Macropodia rostrata) and a host of rock cooks.

This was a great dive (24m and 5-6m visibility), on a brilliant evening with average company. ;) The Power of ZAF is strong indeed.