Last night was a last minute decision to go for a dive. Where, it now seems to me that the UK has a diving spot within a 1hour drive from whereever you are.
I hope I never hear anyone tell me that a mirky silty dive is just like a night dive. The only similarity would be if you were diving a murky silty location at night.
We had an mevening dive at Wraysbury dive centre , entering the water at 20:10. Even though I am a Divemaster and have over 350 dives all around the world and 6 previous dives at Wraysbury, my lack of freshwater buoyancy control in the first 2 minutes and the water which was so cloudy and murky had me extremely nauseas within the first 10 minutes of my dive, something I thought I would never feel.
It was 20:30, 20 minutes later, when I told my dive buddy, Marco, that I just couldn't carry on diving. At one point I was hovering at 6metres just off of the yacht and when I started to descend again I had to go through some other diver's silt clouds which just made me feel like throwing up, I also experienced what I am sure was vertigo.
It was almost 20minutes after the dive when I started to feel better again.
I did actually enjoy the dive, three boats, a couple of other odds and sods, a little duck weed diving along the bank as we entered.
I do have to research this but there are endless inland quarries and divecentres. When I was searching for one close to me I even found that people were posting some of their dive locations. Locations like, Under the bridge two miles out of X town, 200 yards towards the big oak tree, about 4 to 8 metre dive, good visibility with the occasional aquatic life and very little pollution.
