Okay as Sanso is busy with the "Monobrot", (see "collections of weird fins" thread) i will post my personal experiences, gathered this wonderfull last weekend.
I had a really great time in Konstanz, i arrived on Friday evening, had a nice chit-chat with Richard (aka Sanso the beast of the lake
) and after watching a very nice jennifer Garner killing people (Elektra) we went to bed to be in perfect shape the next morning.
Well perfect shape is not really how you describe my state at 6:30 in the morning :hungover, but after all i was there for some lake diving, so we went straight ahead to Sanso beach which lies 200m from Richards house.
There we played in 14°C Water at a max depth of 17m, to acclimatize, as we both were not much into deep diving these last month. I noticed after 1 hour in the Water that the lower water temperature, could become an issue, which revealed to be the case later that day. So we went back to Richards Villa and had a delicious breakfast/brunch (by the way Mr. Sanso did all the cooking and is really great at it
yummy).
After some relaxing in the sun on the balcony, we went to our next dive location at... damn can't remember the name, well ask Richard he knows
. There we had a similar drop-off into deep waters (~90m) as in Wallhausen, and serious PB hunt could begin. In the end i did a really nice 26m dive and a 28m dive that was close to lmc. With hindsight i realize why:
Don't try to set a new PB when you're already shivering from cold on the surface !!! :duh
On sunday reinforcement arrived in form of the rbsub family, and we went to the Spring-Jam dive spot, aka Wallhausen drop-off, despite the worsened weather conditions. No PB hunt for me this time, but a nice and relaxed 20m dive to memorize the feeling of sinking into the black
After a tour through Konstanz with our personal guide Richard, i abandoned these wonderfull people in the evening, and drove home to rejoin my beloved Exam preparation
To summarize:
- a PB increase of 40% (+8m)
- a hell of a good time down there with really nice people
Don't miss it next time boys and girls !!!
Christophe
P.S.: Pics will follow