Week Long Absence

My apologies for the absence of a blog for the last week, your writer was in Scotland and unable to get a decent wireless signal except twice. And, unfortunately, I was in a bit of a rush those two times. Scotland may be stunningly beautiful, full of friendly people and some great dive spots, but it still seems a wee bit behind on the old technological front!

Not that I actually got to dive, I was driving around all over the place for the full week. If you are heading to Scotland, however, and you have a little more time, I'd recommend looking into St. Abbs for easily accessible dive sites, but also Skye and the Scapa Flow if you want some seriously cool dive spots .... both literally and figuratively. The water is likely to be a bit nippy around the top of the Scottish mainland and decidedly more so around Orkney, but some of the images that have been snapped up in those parts promises some exceptional diving. If you are looking for a little more info, a good resource can be found at http://www.divesitedirectory.co.uk/uk.html

During my brief period of silence (yes, it was Golden wasn't it?), another batch of our Open Water Divers completed their Open Water training. Congratulations go out to Andrew, Amparo, Armando, Lewis and Jeff. Well done all!! Unfortunately, the camera was left behind, so no photos this time.

Coming up this week, we have our inaugural Club Night at Ryerson University, it should be fun. On top of one person completing a scuba review, a few of our new Open Water Divers will be buffing up their skills and for the first half an hour, there will be a lights out session in the pool to chill everyone out. I've been advised that the interior pool lights must remain on by provincial requirement, but we'll still create a cool and relaxing start to our dive time. If you haven't let us know you want to go to the Club Night and you do, email me as soon as possible.

Keep smiling at the boxfish, they like it......