For those of a more nerdy disposition, you'll remember Hoth. It was a frigid planet. Well, today TDFKAMF and I headed over the snow covered Rest & Be Thankful for Loch Fyne. We had much grander plans at the start of the week, but we wondered, with more snow forecast, if the B8000 would even be passable. In the end we plumped for a couple of dives at Seal Reef, St Catherine's.
The water was pretty flat calm and the weather was fine. We kitted up aware that we were both going to be diving with some unfamiliar pieces of kit, did our buddy checks and headed down to our desired depth of 30m. I had also plumped to keep my ice hood dry until the second dive I mean how cold could it get?
I took my camera in a pocket in case we found something good, but TDFKAMF didn't so the moment we saw anything interest we marked the depth and agreed to go back on the second dive. We stayed down for about 45 minutes and found some nice cushion stars.
After a wee BBQ we kitted up with our more conventional set ups and went down to the boat before back to the reef for the photo opportunities. We kept the dive shorter fearing that the semi cooked BBQ sausages would be squirting out of us within the hour. As it was, we both held fast!
I asked rhetorically, "How cold could it get?" Well, it bottomed out at 3C, 276.16 K or 35F. Yeah, pretty cold.
On the drive home the conversation veered towards our early memories of Star Wars....and Hoth.
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| Flabellina |
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| Cushion Star |
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| Highland Dancer |
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| Dragonet |
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| 2nd Cushion Star |
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