Diving

Dives

I've dived with Dougie McEwan 8 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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First dive Last dive 		6 Aug 1980 Mull of Oa Islay Scotland 6 10 10 Iain Hosking, Dougie McEwan, Lizzie Daw, Malcolm Gauld, Robert Sproul-Cran Four stars Photographic sortie. Visibility excellent (50 feet+). White sand, lots of fish. Robert took group photograph. ABLJ 5, steel 69, own dv, 22lbs weight.
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First dive Last dive 		7 Aug 1980 Floristan Kilchiaran Bay Islay Scotland Wreck site 10 25 25 Iain Hosking, Dougie McEwan Four stars Night dive with Dougie. Torch failed but his was bright enough for two. Spectacular wreck with locomotives, flatcars, trucks, boilers, bricks (Thistle Co.) and lots of pipes etc. Water clear, and not cold. ABLJ 5, steel 60, own dv, 26lbs weight
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First dive Last dive 		8 Aug 1980 Floristan Kilchiaran Bay Islay Scotland Wreck site 12 35 35 Iain Hosking, Dougie McEwan Three stars Examined details of wreck. Locomotive is on its left side - boiler has rolled off. Flatcars on top of one another. Millwheels. Fish individually (large territorial fish) and in shoals (pollack). Rust kicked up off wreck reduced visibility. Practised boat-handling. ABLJ 5, steel 60, own dv, 26lbs weight
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First dive Last dive 		24 Jan 1982 St Abbs South side of the Firth of Forth Forth Scotland 13 30 30 Iain Hosking, Dougie McEwan Three stars Very good to get back in the water again. Sea calm but very murky - archway in Cathedral barely visible. Followed Dougie around rocks SE of Cathedral and found another tunnel. Day notable for the reappearance of Susan (and Dougie!) on the diving scene. No wrasse, or any other fish. Resident lobster pinched by an English club. own
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First dive Last dive 		18 Jul 1982 St Abbs South side of the Firth of Forth Forth Scotland 15 60 60 Iain Hosking, Dougie McEwan, Mike Malone Four stars Ace dive, with Dougie and Mike. Visibility exceptional - 60 feet at least, and bright sunlight. Long, leisurely dive. Saw conger in crevice - bluish-grey, and 5 or 6 feet long, judging from the size of its head. Hundreds of saithe, several wrasse (one of which Mike hand-fed) and a butterfish - not brown but pink, same colour as seaweed. Sinuses OK at last! own
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First dive Last dive 		19 Sep 1982 St Abbs South side of the Firth of Forth Forth Scotland 14 50 50 Iain Hosking, Dougie McEwan, Eric Franz, Grace Franz Three stars Dived with Dougie, Eric and Grace. Swam to Cathedral via gully. Wrasse, pollack, nudibranchs, lobsters (one of which we caught, but returned of course, being conservation-minded divers). Vis crap. Current. own
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First dive Last dive 		22 Jul 1984 Helena Faulbaums Belnahua Oban Scotland Wreck site 55 15 35 Iain Hosking, Derek Borthwick, Dougie McEwan Five stars Threesome with Dougie and Derek. Usual good weather, flat calm, slack, good vis (30 feet). Dropped shot onto stern, port side, and went into free-fall onto the wreck. Derek followed Dougie, I followed Derek. We swam around the crew's accommodation, steering gear, companionway and had a look at the rudder before going forward to the officers' accommodation, into the holds and back to the shot. own, twin Luxfer 72s, -4lbs (should have left it on). 100 ats left before stops.
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First dive Last dive 		25 Mar 1987 Pettico Wick South side of the Forth, west of St Abbs Forth Scotland 14 20 20 Iain Hosking, Dougie McEwan Three stars Bloody rough. Stiff swim out to rock at 310 degrees from shore. Turned west and found rock faces with dead men's fingers, then a rock chimney.