After last year where I did way to much diving and teaching, combined with my day time job. I started a few weeks ago with a 2 pax OWD course with very nice students.

2 weeks ago I did a 3 pax AOWD course.

And last weekend I did complete a 6 pax OWD course for another instructor.

Now I really miss diving, and I am looking forward to go on diving holidays, to have fun, take pictures, and just enjoy life

“Immortal” Jellyfish Swarm World’s Oceans

Looks like there is a Jellyfish that can become young again, when something life threatening happens.

The first version of the Cis Lunar Mk. VI will only allow you to dive to a max depth of 40 meter, and only on nitrox. So no playing around with trimix and stuff like that.

Another smart move, is you don’t have to spent time packing your scrubber, they come prepacked, this will of course be a little more expensive compared to doing it yourself, but i am a lazy person, so I love the idea.

I am looking forward to hear what people think about it once it has been released to the public in a month or two.

The main reason behind the mooring system, is that a lot of diveguides, still attach the ropes from their boats to weak parts of the wreck.
While i was working as a guide in Egypt, i saw a ship that was tied to the train wagon that could fall into the wreck every day. Due to waves that day, it was moving up and down by about 1 meter, it is amazing it didnt fall into the wreck. Remember there was other divers inside the wreck at that moment.

Hepca has also made holes in the wreck, to let the air escape the wreck, the oxygen in the bubbles from the divers accelerates the rusting and decay of the wreck.

Unfortunately some diveboats, boat captions and diveguides, are not capable at tying to the mooring lines, and still attach their ropes to the wreck. The loops of the mooring system is at about 20 meters of depth, and the distance from the loops to the wrecks is about5 meters. I agree 100% with HEPCA that if a diveguid is not capable of diving to 20 meters to attach the rope, they should NOT be allowed to guide on the wreck at all. The same goes for every dive guest that cant swim 5 meters against a current to the wreck, should never be allowed to dive Thistlegorm.
Hopefully the boats/captions/diveguide breaking the rules will be prosecuted very hard.

Lets hope this wonderful wreck will still be open for diving in the future.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Other than being the longest cave dive yet, it is also the longest dive between 2 different entry points. The cave system they dived, is the 4th largest in the world.

National Geographic has also an article about this dive: here.

On the GUE website there is another here.

Helium for trimix diving is already expensive as it is, but it does not seem to get any cheaper.

Therefore I am seriously considering getting a rebreather.
The model I want is the Sentinel Rebreather, but £5400 + extra for the course is quite a lot of money.

But I am ‘afraid’ i am doing it anyway