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Rust and bivalves

It was yet another calm day for our final diving session. Rusty metal was the theme, returning to the E49 first thing. The survey, both formal and informal, continued with the ling making another cameo in addition to plaice, topknot,

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Scenics and submarines

A persistence of the fine, windless weather meant that kitting up and departure happening in lightening quick time due to the clouds of voracious biting midges. However unpleasant these mini-flies with attitude may be, we have been learning to embrace

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New compressor!

Thanks to another 6 hour round trip to Lerwick by Ant and Dec, and the generous loan of a compressor from Ian in Uyeasound, we are (fingers crossed) now sorted for gas…

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Are we really in the Shetlands?

We woke this morning to thick fog, which soon cleared to leave us basking in blazing sunshine (and the inevitable midges). Our first dive was round on the stacks off Herma Ness, with the gannetry perfuming the normally sweet Shetland

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Lunch stop in Burrafirth

Hot weather? Bright sun? Flat calm seas? Today, Shetland is giving us all of these things. We have just stopped for lunch at Burrafirth having just dived a new site with gullies and vertical walls to 30m. Out Stack next…

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