Back on the rock

Its been an interesting 72 hours to say the least. On Friday Dan, Luke and I went diving down at Vobster Quay in Frome ( www.vobsterquay.co.uk ). I was testing a new Cressi BCD which proved to be like diving in an armchair! Very comfy and very robust. My only gripe is that the pockets are on the smallish size. That said I shouldn't try and fill them with xtra large kebabs.



I was also testing a new SMB and reel much to the amusement of my diving buddies. The reason? On inflation of said SMB at 9 metres down, the fecking reel snapped and my over sized condom broke the surface at a rapid rate of knots. Pro-reel my sweaty cleft. Its also worth mentioning that laughing hard in a regulator requires an element of skill. God bless Mares.


Luckily I get most of my gear from Chris at www.divingdirect.co.uk and they are as good as gold when it comes to sorting issues out. Great prices too!




Saturday day and night saw me at the Gulf War reunion with my buddies from the fighting 21st. For those of you who don't know I actually served 10 years in Her Majestys finest and saw action in the first Gulf War. In my line of work I get to meet loads of celebs / actors / musicians etc but they are bugger all compared to my Brothers in Arms. It truly was a great 14 hour session and it felt like yesterday. Crazy, but nice.


On Sunday night I was on stage with my amigos from Bath FM for a charity gig with The Wurzles. Oh yes, rock and roll baby! More of that at a later date.

Opheus dive - Pathos Cyprus

Just a quicky this. We dived in Cyprus in May of this year. The Zenobia deserves a full write up with vids and pics. However above you can see Dan at the 'Opheus' dive site.

Its sooooooo boring we both fell asleep. What was extremely amusing is that our guide had to surface, not once, not twice but thrice to work out where he was. Bringing us up after a sleep sub aquatic session 50 minutes later, he still managed to distance us 500 metres from the fecking boat.

The Berk.