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Old March 3rd, 2008
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Re: Scallops

Viz was good but the film made it seem better than it actually was. In 9m the bottom came into view about halfway down.

The commercial boys generally work the deeper water a bit further out, but yes, I knew they'd be there.

The weight is one of Dave's belt weights with some wire grips bodged onto it to anchor my float. I leave the float as a marker and work a search pattern around it to ensure I don't cover the same ground, then lift it up, swim 30m and repeat. It needs the grips because the tide can be quite strong out there.

Ah the camera mount, well that was quite ingenious actually..... It took quite a bit of thought and bodging to get right but what I came up with was to use this thing I found on the end of my arm, I think I've heard people call it a "hund". I'm lucky, I've discovered I've got two of them
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