Diving

Dives

I've dived with Crawford Foster 14 times:

Dive number Date Site Location Area Country Wreck Freshwater Depth (m) Bottom time (min) Total time (min) Divers Quality Summary Equipment
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13 Apr 1984 Calve Island Cliffs NE corner of Calve Island Mull Scotland 38 12 15 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Four stars Cliff dive. Cliffs go down vertically to 50m but we stopped to be able to dive later. Cliffs covered in sea squirts and cup coral, with occasional plumose anemones and starfish. own
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13 Apr 1984 Pelican Calve Island, Tobermory Bay Mull Scotland Wreck site 20 9 15 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster, Mike Weitzner Three stars Short second dive. Snorkelled out from shore and down cliff to wreck. Up to bows, down to stern and surfaced. Vis good for this wreck. own
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24 Sep 1984 Leith Forth Scotland 7 20 20 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster, Jenny Clough Three stars 2nd Class rope search with Jenny and Crawford. Searched for obstruction marked off Leith. Appalling vis: 1-2m, and some current. Weather calm and clear. own
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3 Jul 1985 Nordhuk Skye Scotland Wreck site 28 23 23 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Four stars Slack at 4pm so we filled in the time exploring caves and snorkelling around seals. Grappled it in 30s. Fantastic vis meant we could see the whole wreck lying there smashed up. Good close quarters rake around. Found portholes (ferrous), pressure vessel, cogs, winches etc. Lots of fish life. own
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2 Jan 1986 Calve Island Cliffs NE corner of Calve Island Mull Scotland 36 14 16 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Four stars First dive of '86. A beautiful day - clear and cold with wind force 3. Water quite clear but not gin clear. Down to 34m in free-fall mode and spent the time drifting along in the current, upside down half the time. Pretty cup coral, like sweets. Afterwards we had man overboard drill, a prat about and a bit of target practice. own
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16 Feb 1986 Falls of Lora Loch Etive Oban Scotland 22 10 10 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Four stars Sunnier and winder day (easterly 3). Full of anticipation after Mark surfaced to report he'd been in a Kenwood mixer. Very fast at the start, then slower through gullies. Reached pebble slope at south edge where a very insistent upwelling dumped us on the surface. own (as 269), 29lbs.
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16 Feb 1986 Falls of Lora Loch Etive Oban Scotland 22 10 10 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Three stars See 271. see 271
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13 Jul 1986 Helena Faulbaums Belnahua Oban Scotland Wreck site 54 15 45 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Three stars Last dive of the trip. Crawford and I raised the lamp he found yesterday and found a few more portholes. Overcast, chilly day but still calm. Twin 55s, 28lbs
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18 Sep 1986 Beagle North of Great Cumbrae Clyde Scotland Wreck site 33 16 18 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Three stars Still perfect conditions. Several buoys on the Beagle so we added ours. Down onto the bows, swam round forward hold, then aft along starboard side, past a locked-in conger. Very impressive rudder and prop. Vis not too brilliant. Kevin's Rowi suit, 24lbs.
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18 Sep 1986 Wallachia The Gantocks Clyde Scotland Wreck site 33 8 10 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Four stars Conditions even better. Wreck was buoyed so we were able to update our transits. 2 hour surface interval so we had a time penalty, but an excellent dive. Saw the bridge, wheel, engine room 'greenhouse', spare wheel, jars and beer bottles. Down over stern to see prop and rudder. Tried 91-year old beer. Horrible. Kevin's Rowi suit, 20lbs lead, club 78.
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22 May 1987 Loch Long Clyde Scotland 25 25 25 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster, Sarah McCracken Four stars Night dive - surfaced at exactly midnight. A brilliant dive, literally, with incredible phosphorescence. Sarah led. Plenty of life - colours showed up well in the torch beams - several sorts of sea anemone (big plumose ones at the end), masses of peacock worms, all out and arranged very tastefully about the rocks, with sea squirts in among them (transparent and pink varieties). Fish - pollack and small cod-like things - three dorsal fins and barbels (pout? dab? poor cod?). Also tiny purple sea urchins, east coast type squat lobsters and a starfish looking like a wedding cake - pink knobs on white. We turned our torches off and played at Disneyland for a while. Crawford and Sarah were easily visible by columns of bubbles and sparks. Oh, and a whole shoal of jellyfish. Good dive.
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24 May 1987 Otter Ferry Loch Fyne Kintyre Scotland 34 16 18 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster, Sarah McCracken Three stars Beautiful day but site not too remarkable. Torch failed on entering the water so I tagged along behind Sarah and Crawford, seeing less and less as we got deeper. Good few drinks at Strachur that night, and slept on the beach. Drove back through Hell's Glen at 4.30am next day.
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26 May 1990 Manly Around the corner from Shelly Beach Sydney Australia 15 50 50 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Three stars Recommended by Phil Marshal. Tricky descent to the water down a cliff and across boulders, which continued underwater. Exposed site so few squidgy things, but lots of fish - sea carp, morwong, yellowtail, bream, a moray eel, pomfret (ladder-finned) etc. Also abalone and cuttlefish. Found a goody bag. Beautiful day. No BC (they're worse than useless), 82, 26lbs.
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27 May 1990 Shiprock Port Hacking Sydney Australia 14 45 45 Iain Hosking, Crawford Foster Three stars All EUSAC visitors get taken to this spot. A good dive (except for the leaky suit) with heaps of leatherjacket (including one new to me - fan-bellied), all eating the soft coral, and old wives, catfish, rock cod (ugly), flounder, magpie morwong, immaculate damsel. Best moment was Crawford's close encounter with a numbfish (electric ray). Finished off with an octopus - amazing colour changes. Discovered the cause of the leak in the left sleeve - the Draeger mushroom valve - then spoilt it by melting a hole in the cuff. Saturated during the dive - amazing that so much water can enter through one small hole.