Colin and I headed for the shores of Malta to complete our DSAT Tec 40, 45 and 50 instructor examinations and evaluation with course director Gary Mawston. Of course we operated out of Maltaqua in St. Paul’s bay – our regular home from home in Malta – and as ever they were superb; everything well organised with the logistics taken care of. We flew into Malta thanks to a Ryanair flight – my only complaint being the ridiculous baggage allowances available… the “sports bag” allowance is a mere 20kg… my 4 regulators sets and backplate (alone!) were 15kg which was my regular cargo bag allowance shot to pieces! Long story...

Just sitting in Dublin Airport waiting for our flight to Malta. Colin and I are heading off on a week of deep wreck diving... despite the worst intentions of one Icelandic volcano!


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Location:Swords Rd,,Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately with an avalanche of work waiting for me upon returning from this trip… inevitable delay happened with getting this report written up… so finally; here stands the written testament of one happy cave diver’s Cave 2 report conducted over the 5 days of March 15th to 19th 2010:

Flying to Cancun in and of itself was a mammoth task of endurance: an 11hour flight from Dublin to Atlanta, 3 hour wait in Atlanta airport followed by a 2h30min flight onward to Cancun. I was seeing double but incredibly happy when Sergio and Peter walked towards me at the airport. They kindly picked me up in...

On the 13th March our GUE cave team is heading for Mexico. Sergio, Peter and I are signed up for GUE C2 class with instructor Christophe Le Maillot at Zero Gravity at Xpu Ha, Q. Roo.

Needless to say we are really looking forward to the challenge of C2. I am also personally looking forward to getting into some “low flow” cave. To date all of my C1 level dives have been in the rather robust embrace of the flow of Ginnie Springs.

In Mexico all our dives will be conducted in the inland Cenotes of the Yucatan peninsula. There are plenty of great cave diving videos of these flooded cave systems on YouTube… but one of may favourites is...

As promised please see below the final cut version of our cave diving trip video to High Springs Florida. Warning: my video camera is not HD and I have no light rigging on it… the only light source during this video is our HID dive lights. Obviously in the end section when we emerge from the cave system the natural sunlight helps a lot :) I hope you enjoy it… we had great fun diving it… but yes I know the image quality is not exactly national Geographic!