As most of you will know, your dive club committee meets once a month to discuss all matters relating to the dive club (and many things which aren’t). Just so the rest of you don’t all feel left out, here’s a summary of what’s going on at the moment and what’s coming up soon.
Far away in the tropical waters of the Caribbean, two prawns were swimming around in the sea - one called Justin, and the other called Christian.
The prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks. Finally, one day Justin said to Christian, “I’m fed up with being a prawn. I wish I was a shark, then I wouldn’t have any worries about being eaten.”
A large mysterious cod then suddenly appeared and said, “Your wish is granted”, and lo and behold, Justin turned into a shark. Horrified, Christian immediately swam away, afraid of being eaten by his old mate.
Time passed and Justin found life as a shark boring and lonely. All his old mates simply swam away petrified whenever he came anywhere close to them.
While swimming alone one day Justin saw the mysterious cod again, and he thought perhaps the fish could change him back into a prawn - he missed his old life so.
He approached the cod and begged to be changed back, and, lo and behold, he found himself a prawn once more. With tears of joy in his tiny little eyes, Justin swam back to find his friends.
Looking around the gathering at the reef he couldn’t see his old pal. “Where’s Christian?” he asked. “He’s at home, still distraught that his best friend changed sides and became a shark”, came the reply.
Eager to put things right, Justin set off to Christian’s abode. As he opened the coral gate memories came flooding back. He banged on the door and shouted, “It’s me, Justin, your old friend. Come out and see me.”
Christian replied, “No way man, you’ll eat me. You’re a shark - I’ll not be tricked into being your dinner.”
Justin cried back “No, I’m not. That was the old me. I’ve changed - I’ve found Cod. Now I’m a prawn again, Christian”.
Boom boom.
Thanks everyone for a superb trip. I really enjoyed it and I hope you all did too.
Here are a few photos I took over the weekend. More will follow from other people, and Phil has been pressganged kindly volunteered to write an article for the blog.
Ready to go diving. From left to right: Alex S, Hannah, Joe, Chris and ‘Big’ Jim.
Here are some details about the upcoming Plymouth trip. Hopefully you will find everything you need to know right here; if not please let me know. To those of you who have been to Plymouth many times before I apologise for my verbosity.
People going and accommodation
21 people have their name down for the trip. Most people are staying in the Mountbatten Centre with others arranging their own accommodation.
Borringdon Arms: Morgan & Hannah. Unfortunately I couldn’t get enough rooms in the Mountbatten centre so we had to move elsewhere. We will be about 10 minutes walk from everyone else.
Mountbatten Centre: We have two triple rooms and four twin rooms booked. It would be sensible for the three women (Nikki, Nadia and Megan) to share a triple room. Please leave one double room for the two driving the Land Rover (Jim Moroney and Alex Marshall). Otherwise sort your own rooms out.
The weekend of 24-25 March saw three of our new trainees experience diving in the sea for the first time on an early season training trip to Portland. Despite some issues with the weather, cold water temperatures, lack of viz and lack of marine life, a good time was had by all ;). Trust me guys, it’s all good from here…
Joe
Here are a few photos taken from Chesil Cove.
Chesil Cove (more…)
