The Lobster Song

"Good Morning Mr Fisherman,

Good Morning said he..."

Well, we’ve just returned from a fantastic trip to Scapa Flow during which we have ascertained the following things:
 

• My Bare XCD2 Pro Dry, 2mm hypercompressed with diamond –tuff nylon drysuit, very reasonably priced at £649.95 and available now at Diving Leisure London, is the best drysuit in the world.

•  Triton is the best diveboat in the world, complete with onboard drying room and full nitrox compressor.

• Roy, the skipper of Triton, is the best skipper in the world, loves the ladies, drink and song but has a dubious taste in underpants.

• The Tabarka is one of the best dives in the world, 20m of viz inside a cavernous wreck in only 16m of water. Truly breath-taking.

• My Greenforce Tristar LED with F2 battery pack and umbilical, very reasonably priced at £449 and available now at Diving Leisure London, is the best torch for lighting up the interior of aforementioned wreck.

 
Anyway, we travelled up by car over night, which wasn’t too bad a journey, especially when you get your girlfriend to do most of the driving for you and stayed in a couple of lovely little cottages just outside the main town of Stromness. The cottages had a huge garden area and because the weather was so nice we took ample opportunity to barbeque up some local Orkney beef. There were also some really lovely pork steaks that had been marinated in a combination of spices, but I suppose I’d better mention something about the diving:
 
Lots of people will say that Scapa Flow is the best diving in the UK. This is actually true, but you probably won’t believe me until you go (don’t worry, we’re going again next year). The wrecks of the German High Fleet are awe-inspiring, many of them are as shallow as 16 m on the top whilst they rest on the bottom at around 38m. It is perfectly possible to complete a 45m dive all around the wreck without going into deco, however if that’s your bag there’s plenty of that on offer as well. There are loads of interesting bits of penetration, little swim-throughs and huge guns to see on the dive. We averaged about 10m of viz on these wrecks.
 
As well as the battleships, there are also shallower wrecks, like the blockships which include the Tabarka and also ‘rummage dives’ where we collected scallops for dinner (Johanna managed to find one as big as a man, with a steak sized piece of meat, inside, which we gently fried in butter and served up with… but I digress) and Vicky found a porthole and I found a shell casing from the second world war.
 
I’d like to say a big thank you to Richard, Caroline, John, Vicky, Johanna, Jen and Kasia for making the trip such a great laugh.
 
We’re definitely planning a return next year at a similar time. If you’re interested, drop me a line or stick something on the forum and I’ll get the details out shortly.
 
Finally, you may be wondering about the title of this blog. Follow the link below and find out (warning, video contains VERY strong language about shellfish….):
 
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