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Guernsey 2014
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Hope you're right, at the moment this is shaping up to be my first dry year in 10. The pics above show its still far too murky to spark my interest.
R
Rockie
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Lets hope so Mart. I ended up putting the gun back in the car and practiced breath holds for an hour. Not doing very well mate. Can do 3 minutes static but on 30 seconds in the water. Ive spoken to Steve and need to practice walking apnea and will hopefully get better times in the water when vis is better, fingers crossed
Yep know exactly what you mean 3/4 min on dry land 20 seconds in wety in water!
It was clearer in a lot of spots, enough that if it had been fishy you'd have seen them
The vis wouldn't put me off going in again as it is
Thanks, we'll see. Nearly night dive season.
Regarding the breath hold difference between dry static and actually diving I find the key is to relax properly. It's so easy to tense every muscle as you dive the complete opposite to when you're laying on your bed all calm and relaxed.
What I do when breathing up, about 30 secs before the dive, is to go through every area of my body, consciously relaxing each area. Start with your toes, ankles, calves, thighs...work your way right up to your neck and don't forget your jaw, that's always locked rigid.
Try to maintain that when diving, don't rush, don't look at your watch to see how long you've been down, just enjoy being down there. Note how your body feels when you start to feel the urge to breath but do it dispassionately, as if viewing it from outside.
And most importantly don't push it. When you're properly relaxed it's comfortable, not painful.
Regarding the breath hold difference between dry static and actually diving I find the key is to relax properly. It's so easy to tense every muscle as you dive the complete opposite to when you're laying on your bed all calm and relaxed.
What I do when breathing up, about 30 secs before the dive, is to go through every area of my body, consciously relaxing each area. Start with your toes, ankles, calves, thighs...work your way right up to your neck and don't forget your jaw, that's always locked rigid.
Try to maintain that when diving, don't rush, don't look at your watch to see how long you've been down, just enjoy being down there. Note how your body feels when you start to feel the urge to breath but do it dispassionately, as if viewing it from outside.
And most importantly don't push it. When you're properly relaxed it's comfortable, not painful.
R
Rockie
Guest
Thanks Magpie. Perseverance i think is the word I am looking for. I do think I am weighted too heavily and have taken some out which will let me relax on the surface more easily next time. Hopefully will be able to completely relax. Steve (apneaboy) is also giving me tips and things to try and hopefully I will see progress. Thanks
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Had a swim around the knife first thing yesterday a.m - wasn't really a great idea! There was quite a bit of swell at the point and occasionally I could see past the end of my 85.
Went to the E Coast in the evening and vis was certainly better. Swam in a huge shoal of horse mackerel for a while - never seen them here before, likely common enough I guess.
Ended up with a bit of a mixed bag of 1 each of - mullet, mackerel (Atlantic), Plaice and a Bass.
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Went to the E Coast in the evening and vis was certainly better. Swam in a huge shoal of horse mackerel for a while - never seen them here before, likely common enough I guess.
Ended up with a bit of a mixed bag of 1 each of - mullet, mackerel (Atlantic), Plaice and a Bass.
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Just back in from what will likely be my last guernsey dive, and it was superb.
Headed out around 8.30 and went to the end of the knife. Torch on then headed out to the first outer reef.
Saw such a lot of bait fish, small squid, mackerel, mullet & flatties and 1 solitary Bass. I hope this is just a little blip and the Bass will reappear in numbers shortly but I've seen very few over the last weeks. Maybe overfishing is really hitting home now? Who knows.
Coming back in from the outer reef the sea was just alive with bait fish and Sandeel. At one point they were battering off me for about 10 mins. It was just thick with them.
I had a bit of excitement crossing back onto the knife when I saw a shadow pass under me. Couldn't make out what it was but it was around 5 or 6 ft long. Saw it twice more off to the side but always just on the edge of the beam. I just kept telling myself it was a seal
Back into 15 ft of water and there was thousands of squid, maybe 3 inches or so long and the phosporescence was amazing. I drifted around with them for 10 mins or so with torch off watching them lit up by the green phosporescence while trying to put the 'seal' incident out of my mind.
The final tally was 5 Plaice and 2 sole.
A bloody brilliant dive and a great way to end my 3 weeks here.
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Headed out around 8.30 and went to the end of the knife. Torch on then headed out to the first outer reef.
Saw such a lot of bait fish, small squid, mackerel, mullet & flatties and 1 solitary Bass. I hope this is just a little blip and the Bass will reappear in numbers shortly but I've seen very few over the last weeks. Maybe overfishing is really hitting home now? Who knows.
Coming back in from the outer reef the sea was just alive with bait fish and Sandeel. At one point they were battering off me for about 10 mins. It was just thick with them.
I had a bit of excitement crossing back onto the knife when I saw a shadow pass under me. Couldn't make out what it was but it was around 5 or 6 ft long. Saw it twice more off to the side but always just on the edge of the beam. I just kept telling myself it was a seal
Back into 15 ft of water and there was thousands of squid, maybe 3 inches or so long and the phosporescence was amazing. I drifted around with them for 10 mins or so with torch off watching them lit up by the green phosporescence while trying to put the 'seal' incident out of my mind.
The final tally was 5 Plaice and 2 sole.
A bloody brilliant dive and a great way to end my 3 weeks here.
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So you have had your firsts guernsey shark encounter!
Seals sleep at night....
Seals sleep at night....
Well done Grant.
I presume you're sure it wasn't just bait getting right up close to the torch? I've been regularly scared sh1tless by a massive shadow on the bottom, which turned out to be a 2 inch roselet right against the lens of the torch projecting an 8ft shadow onto the seabed.
How was the viz round there?
I presume you're sure it wasn't just bait getting right up close to the torch? I've been regularly scared sh1tless by a massive shadow on the bottom, which turned out to be a 2 inch roselet right against the lens of the torch projecting an 8ft shadow onto the seabed.
How was the viz round there?