Reviews
Hydrotac stick on bi-focal lens
Age will weary and mean changes to gear configuration.........the first being a loss of close up vision!
Santi BZ400X 'Extreme' thermal undersuit
I must be getting soft in my old age....five years ago no hood or gloves at any time of the year, then I started with a hood, then gloves, then dry gloves and now this a new undersuit as the 4th Element kit doesn't seem to be 'cutting it' in the winter!
Otter Britannic Superskin Drysuit
What with one thing and another I am looking at changing from a neoprene to membrane drysuit, I am hoping that a more pliable suit makes manouvering with my 'aging' back a tad easier, so where to go? After some investigation and talking with other divers it was time for a trip to Bradford!
Air-Lift for budding treasure hunters
A bit of an odd-ball...........I guess that this is more a review of instructions more than the air-lift that I made.
Kubi dry glove system
I do feel that having been diving for more than 30 years I am due some luxuries in my dotage to make leaping, or should that be rolling, into the cold North Sea slightly more pleasurable.
3D Mesh Vest by Waterproof
Another item of thermal wear for dry-suit users but how does it compare to gear already on the market?
Big Blue AL1000XWP dual set up for Go-Pro
With the popularity of the go-pro set-up it was inevitable that 'specialist' set ups have been developed, but how well has this one been developed?
- Fins, tekkie or sport, standard or modded?
- Seabear H3 Dive Computer (Smart Watch)
- Halcyon 'H' Titanium Knife
- Lumb Brothers 'Crab Hook'
- Sea & Sea YS-01 Strobe
- Ikelite DS51 TTL Strobe
- To wax or not to wax?
- Miflex Hoses
- Hollis 38LX wing and solo technical harness
- Oceanic GT-3 regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Oceanic EOS regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Highland EMT Shears
- Northern Divers Weight and Trim Harness
- Beaver Tech Weight Harness
- 'J Nowill' SBS Titanium Dive Knife
- Halcyon Gaiter Wraps
- Halcyon Exploration Pocket
- Sovereign Diving (Seahouses)
- AP Diving Open Circuit Bailout Mouthpiece
- Waterfront Scuba Servicing Facility
- Waterproof G1 3mm 5 Finger Gloves
- Greenforce F2 Umbilical Torch
- Narked at 90 fourth cell conversion
- Hollis LED 3 Torch
- Atomic Aquatics SS1 Auto-air
- Beaver Aquasnips
- Jotron AQ 4 Strobe
- Shearwater Predator Dive Computer
- AP Diving Oxygen Sensor (R22D)
- Metalsub XRE1000 torch
- Eezycut Trilobite Cutter
- VR3 Dive Computer
- VRX Dive Computer
- Scubapro Seawing Nova
- The Dive Pod (Nuttys Dive Centre)
- Dive-rite Travel Pac
- Atomic Aquatics Frameless mask
- Seaskin suit repair and rock-boots
- Halcyon Pathfinder 400 Reel
- Re-visited Archon D33 torch
- AP Diving: Black Self Sealing SMB with DIN cylinder
- O three Ri 1-100CCN Dry-suit
- Archon D33 torch
- Bigblue Focusing-Spotting Light
- O three heated under vest
Latest Photographs


The propellor from SS Abessinia, you can get some idea of scale when you see the diver hovering around it.
Dropping into the main gully one of the first things that you notice is the rust stained sand, then larger 'lumps' and as you head inshore the gully tightens to an end and you have sections of the steel rubbing strip and what is now apparently the bows of the ship.
This waterlogged piece of wood, which I think had been a fence post was covered in hard pink coraline and very 'pretty', once underwater it doesn't take long for detritus and junk to be absorbed into the eco-system
A very large, well the largest that I have ever seen Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), eyes down!
Think that this is a Montagus Blenny (Coryphoblennius galerita) there were always plenty warming themselves on the steps. The fact that the seals are fed fish there and there will be 'bits' also probably attracts them!
Heading down the boulder slope for the starting point, good vis but don't go straight to the bottom, you will go round and round in a pit!
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) doing 'cute' the reason loads of divers visit the islands
Ta-daaaah, the bow shot!
Part of the engine assembly, in this case a con rod on the main shaft, not easy to get a sense of scale but it's B----I----G.
A Topknot (Zeugopterus punctatus) you will see these flatfish stuck onto the bottom and underside of crevices if you look carefully on dives over rocky ground. The skin is coarse so you can easily get hold of this docile fish and bag him for tea, should you wish. A word of warning they tend to be infested with worms!
Another small nudibranch, not sure what type it is and for all the wporld it appears to be an immature Sea Lemon although it is far to late in the season.....further investigation required!
The grunions were soldered in place although they were a push fit.
Wreckage is strewn all over the site, generally if it is 'big things' then it will have been from SS Abessinia a german ship sunk en-route back from it's internment in WWI
This site is home to a multitude of Common Hermit Crabs (pagurus bernhardus)
A general shot of the rock formations complete with kelp and bits.....
Towards the end of summer the kelp does get eaten away, once the critters or urchins have broken through the tough outer skin they rapidly get stuck into the softer internal flesh
A Lions Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), when they are about deco stops are always interesting!
The point where the gun meets the turret
An immature cod (Gadus) this particularly colourful and lonesome specimen is obviously going to be a 'kelp cod' that's to say one of the sub-species(?) which stay inshore all year around and turn red as they age.