Diving
Dives
I've dived with Adrian Roddam 11 times:
| Dive number | Date | Site | Location | Area | Country | Wreck | Freshwater | Depth (m) | Bottom time (min) | Total time (min) | Divers | Quality | Summary | Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
187
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22 May 1984 | Port Napier | Kyle of Lochalsh | Skye | Scotland |  |
20 | 23 | 25 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam |  |
Took Adrian through the mine tubes by special request. Visibility a lot poorer than Saturday - only 20-30 feet. Entered forward of bridge and swam to stern through one mine tube, then back through another. Inflated polythene canister. Explored superstructure on shore. 16 divers in one wave on one engine! | own | |
| 209
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25 Nov 1984 | Wemyss Bay | Clyde | Scotland | 36 | 8 | 8 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam |  |
The less said about this the better. | own | |||
| 213
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17 Mar 1985 | Creran Bridge | Oban | Scotland | 5 | 10 | 10 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam | |
As good as the last dive with Adrian. Vis 6 feet; yellow pea soup. Reasonable current. Sinuses disgraced themselves. Adrian and I decided to separate again. | own | |||
| 225
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2 Jul 1985 | Port Napier | Kyle of Lochalsh | Skye | Scotland | |
22 | 30 | 30 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam | |
Dived after a long van journey and 2.5 hours' sleep [after Alasdair's wedding]. Down at the stern and swam through lower starboard mine tube (very murky). Ended by exploring the bows - very clear and light shining in. Sinuses dodgy. Good prat about afterwards. Moules Marinière for tea. | own. DV leaking again. | |
| 234
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8 Jul 1985 | Meall Thailm | North-east of Tongue Bay | North-west Scotland | Scotland | 20 | 40 | 42 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam, Malcolm Gauld, Sarah McCracken |  |
Too good a site not to have a full dive on, so we hit it again, in a loose foursome with Malcolm and Adrian. Found three lobsters - one was huge, with one claw guarding a dead dogfish. Saw crabs sitting in holes in the rock wall, also shoals of small fish, the usual anemones and sponges etc. | own | ||
| 235
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9 Jul 1985 | An Dubh-sgeir | Sango Bay | North-west Scotland | Scotland | 18 | 15 | 15 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam | |
Launched at Rispond (wettest, windiest campsite in the world). Dived into a narrow crevice between two rock formations which became a tunnel. Nearly collided with a seal in the tunnel. Came up on the other side of the island and swam back over a lurking seal on the way. Another one stayed just ahead of us all the way. Turned right and followed the gullies and underwater arches. Good vis. Fantastic dive. | own | ||
| 236
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9 Jul 1985 | An Dubh-sgeir | Sango Bay | North-west Scotland | Scotland | 20 | 19 | 19 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam | |
15 minute interval from previous dive (Adrian had to pee). Followed the island round clockwise to shallow inlet and followed a crevice into a 30m long dead-end tunnel. Turned round to find we'd been followed in by a seal. Swam back towards the other tunnel over strange rock formations and cornered another seal in a cave. Finished the day by coming face to face with a seal pup in a rock pool, lifting a Seagull outboard and finding two cannon. | own | ||
| 265
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9 Nov 1985 | Kintyre | Wemyss Bay | Clyde | Scotland | |
40 | 11 | 13 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam |  |
Spent ages looking for the 'Wallachia' but the echosounder died and the transits weren't good enough to grapple successfully, so we went for plan B. While looking for the 'Kintyre' we were hit by a snow squall. All worth it, though, because Adrian and I actually found the wreck. We saw a lot of it - bogs, bows, winches, boiler, engine and resident conger, or ling. Very dark, but a good dive. | own | |
| 315
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31 Dec 1986 | Heather Island | Oban | Scotland | 30 | 20 | 32 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam | |
Last dive of the year. A good cliff if fairly murky. Plenty of life - feather duster worms, seasquirts, squatties, sunstars, fish, scallops and crinoids. Supposedly cold but with the new suit as warm as toast. Hello 1987! | ||||
| 440
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20 Dec 1990 | The Pinnacles, Forster | Forster | Australia | 40 | 34 | 34 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam | |
Up early for this one - 6.50 am. Overcast day. Clear blue water and a definite thermocline. No steep rock formations, just domes with gullies in between. Saw three wobbegongs and Adrian saw grey nurse sharks. So did everyone else. High air consumption. | Wetsuit, 82, 20lbs lead | |||
| 441
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20 Dec 1990 | Latitude Rock | Forster | Australia | 58 | 16 | 16 | Iain Hosking, Adrian Roddam | |
Swam straight down onto the sloping side of a rock reef, then over the steep side (past anchor rope abrading on the rock). Turned left into a shoal of bullseyes - some are yellow with a grey top and others are the reverse. Roughies look similar but are brown with a white and black stripe (#137 - bullseyes are #334 and #332). [There's more, but I didn't finish writing it up.] | Wetsuit, 82, 20lbs. |