Pool Sessions - monthly Not been diving for a couple of months over the winter ? Why not take advantage of one of the benefits of being a club member and try all your unused kit in the pool prior to taking it to the Open Water. If you don't have all of your own kit the Dive Centre can supply what you need in the pool for free. Just check beforehand to make sure there is space and enough kit available. If you've been out of the water for several months and are a bit rusty why not consider a Scuba Review which will cover all of the skills you did on your Open Water Course - when was the last time you actually practiced sharing air or breathing from a free flowing reg. It only takes around an hour. Call the shop to book. FEATURE ARTICLES BY CLUB MEMBERSSorry but as nobody has been on any trips since Christmas there are no articles for this newsletter. Hopefully someone out there can write something about some of the trips later in the year. There will be articles on the Wales and Oban trips in the next newsletter. Don’t Forget - Thursday Diving Days
And finally ....A hundred and twenty five hours underwater Yes you read it right - 125 hours underwater - that's more than 5 days AND nights ! As you may know Cliff and Richard know the Editor of Sport Diver Magazine, Mark Evans, quite well and so when the magazine decided to try and break the world record for the time spend underwater on open circuit scuba he asked Cliff and Richard if they knew anbody that wanted to try it. A total of five divers would be required. Two members of the CDWC staff were given the chance to participate as well as three members of the Sport Diver Staff. Divers would be wearing full face masks to allow them to sleep underwater at night and special temperature controlled drysuits to control body temperature, even though the record was attempted in a 3 metre deep swimming pool. During the day the five divers were able to play board games and even watch a specially made underwater television to try and pass the time. A total of 175 cylinder changes were required, all completed underwater with the help of a 12 diver support team. During the 5 days the team were also able to smash the previous world records for time spent playing underwater scrabble, underwater monopoly and underwater ironing. At the end of the record attempt divers where required to complete 4 hours of decompression stops at 2 metres, 1 metre and half and metre on 100% oxygen to remove the nitrogen that had accumulated in their bodies over the five day event. The main problems were eating and drinking and obviously using the toilet. Special liquid diets were planned by the doctors monitoring the divers which could be drunk underwater and they contained a mild antimotility drug - loperamide hydrochloride - which would slow the bowel down during the attempt. This was combined with a hops and barley extract which allowed the CDWC staff divers to maintain their normal blood alchohol levels for the full 5 days. Full details of the record attempt will be in the April addition of sport diver which goes on sale from the 1st of the month. Richard took his camera so we will have a few pictures of those involved at the next club meeting, just ask him if you want to see them. |
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