On Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:28 PM, Huw Porter wrote:

> With the club trip to Scapa Flow just a fortnight away, six club members
> arrived at Portland Port for a warmup day trip for six club members.  Five
> miles offshore, first dive of the day was the Elena R.  A Greek merchant
> ship of 4,600 tons mined at the start of WWII, heavily salvaged and broken
> with parts standing up to 7m above a 27m gravel bed.

> We had one buddy pair on single 12's, one of whom was starting to feed the
> fish in the mild swell, so we put them in first.

G'Day, Mate!  I guess it's all a question of degree - and I know that folks,
having paid for a dive, are often loathe to forgo it, (often because of the
belief that once they get off the boat they'll feel better!) - but it does
fly against that last point in the buddy-check, "Are you OK to dive?", to
hop in the water after you've already started to up-chuck!  :-)))

But I'm glad that he was OK!  :-)

Strike