Stoney Cove with Dive Wimbledon 

Stoney Cove with Dive Wimbledon

Scuba diving at Stoney Cove in the sunshine can be quite a treat.

This weekend we had a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course to complete. Sue and Brent were the students and on the Sunday we went up to Stoney Cove for the Deep and Multi level dives.

For those of you who don't know it Stoney Cove is a flooded Quarrey near Leicester. It is about 2 hours away from London so quite a drive. We had students coming from Southfields, Wimbledon, Kingston, Surbiton, Earlsfield and Putney. We all got their bright and early ready to dive.

The weather was fantastic and the sunshine penetrated deeper than normal so it was very light on the bottom. Sue, Brent and Daron were completing their Enriched Air Specialty courses at the same time which made it perfect for the deep dive.

On the deep dive we all descended along the old road into the quarrey to 28 metres where Sue completed her timed problem and Brent checked the colour changes. On the way back up we took a bit of a diversion so we could have a look at the bus. We were the first divers of the day to see it so the visibility was fantastic. The dive went really well and I am sure the divers are all competent to dive 30 metres in the future.

The second dive was on the Stanegarth, an 18 metre long tugboat. We were lucky as we were the only divers on the site. It was a lot of fun swimming around the wreck but time past quickly and it was time for us to swim a bit ahallower. We swum around in the shallows for a while and visited the Personnell carrier as well as the Nautalis and swam under the pub for awhile.

It was a fabulous dive and as we completed the paperwork the others all went for a third dive.

A tiring trip back to London but a lot of fun!!!!!