The Border Raid (1) - 30/05/2015

Today a large group of 11 charged across the Scots-English border to make a Scuba raid at Caperwray Quarry. I've dived here a few times over the years, but Jester, my buddy for the day has not. On that basis it was quite fun to take the lead and go round some familiar and previously unseen attractions.

The crew consisted of The Mermaid, Captn Al, Das Von Winklehoffs, the Thomson Twins, the Mexican, BT and Dave Lee Arbuckle.

Jester and I had decided to adopt a three dive strategy, while the rest ultimately plumped for two. The Mermaid was also planting something at the infamous pig gnomes - an area of the quarry I'd never seen before. 

Kitting up it was decided that the Von Winkelhoffs would come with Jester and I. The first dive saw us swim through the plane, before exploring the Podsnap and some of the shallower attractions towards the end. One half of the Von Winkelhoffs seemed to be having a few equalisation issues. So progress, especially at the start was slow.

The plane itself was like a busy traffic junction with various groups defying the great British convention of queuing for their swm throughs.

A couple twists and turns later we were back at the entry. Jester and I both had over 100bar, so we lift the Von Winkelhoffs to make a safe exit while we went on and sought out the Devil, Lord Lucan and Shergar for Jesters initial induction.

After the dive we came out chatted with the other groups and hit the cafe for some snackage.

However, it was dive two, that brought us to the pig gnomes and the Mermaid's deposit.....TBC

Hoss

Sturgeon

Devil

Carol