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I've dived with Iain Fairbrother 3 times:

Dive number	Date	Site	Location	Area	Country	Depth (m)	Bottom time (min)	Total time (min)	Divers	Summary	Equipment
421	20 Jul 1990	Sgarbhstac Submarine Arch	Boreray	St Kilda	Scotland	51	28	28	Iain Hosking, Iain Fairbrother	This is the site that gets the longest write-up in Ridley's book, and you can see why. Conditions were perfect as we dropped off the boat and descended to depth. As we dropped over the lip of the arch the whole scene came into view. The bottom was clean. grey stone and the visibility was excellent - we easily saw all the other divers silhouetted against the far opening, with the bubbles going up to the roof 20m above. We spent a few minutes on the bottom drinking in the view, then ascended slowly up the walls (covered in jewel anemones) to the apex at 30m. Then further up there was an air pocket, which allowed Iain to apologise for kicking out my DV at 50m. Stops were spent hanging onto kelp and watching the sealife.
422	20 Jul 1990	Levenish, north face		St Kilda	Scotland	30	33	33	Iain Hosking, Iain Fairbrother	Amazing - a St Kilda dive without tunnels or clear blue water. This was murky by St Kilda standards and Levenish Tunnel was strictly off-limits. [Derek Borthwick's buddy was killed there.] Swam under one house-sized boulder, and saw a couple of shy seals, but for the rest of the dive it was closeups of squidgies, especially a weird crustacean called a coprellid, which seems to have exploded in numbers. See Cathy's log for a sketch.
443	21 Dec 1990	Seal Rocks		Forster	Australia	24	24	24	Iain Hosking, Iain Fairbrother, Malcolm Gauld	Began the dive attached to Ian Fairbrother and Malcom, but lost them. Persisted in my vain search for sharks. None. Swam back above an atmospheric gully. Heaps of blue groper. Surfaced to a long snorkel in worryingly rough seas.	Drysuit, twin set etc as in this morning's abortive dive on the 'Satara'.

Dive number

Date

Site

Location

Area

Country

Wreck

Freshwater

Depth (m)

Bottom time (min)

Total time (min)

Divers

Quality

Summary

Equipment

421

20 Jul 1990

Sgarbhstac Submarine Arch

Boreray

St Kilda

Scotland

Iain Hosking, Iain Fairbrother

This is the site that gets the longest write-up in Ridley's book, and you can see why. Conditions were perfect as we dropped off the boat and descended to depth. As we dropped over the lip of the arch the whole scene came into view. The bottom was clean. grey stone and the visibility was excellent - we easily saw all the other divers silhouetted against the far opening, with the bubbles going up to the roof 20m above. We spent a few minutes on the bottom drinking in the view, then ascended slowly up the walls (covered in jewel anemones) to the apex at 30m. Then further up there was an air pocket, which allowed Iain to apologise for kicking out my DV at 50m. Stops were spent hanging onto kelp and watching the sealife.

422

20 Jul 1990

Levenish, north face

St Kilda

Scotland

Iain Hosking, Iain Fairbrother

Amazing - a St Kilda dive without tunnels or clear blue water. This was murky by St Kilda standards and Levenish Tunnel was strictly off-limits. [Derek Borthwick's buddy was killed there.] Swam under one house-sized boulder, and saw a couple of shy seals, but for the rest of the dive it was closeups of squidgies, especially a weird crustacean called a coprellid, which seems to have exploded in numbers. See Cathy's log for a sketch.

443

21 Dec 1990

Seal Rocks

Forster

Australia

Iain Hosking, Iain Fairbrother, Malcolm Gauld

Began the dive attached to Ian Fairbrother and Malcom, but lost them. Persisted in my vain search for sharks. None. Swam back above an atmospheric gully. Heaps of blue groper. Surfaced to a long snorkel in worryingly rough seas.

Drysuit, twin set etc as in this morning's abortive dive on the 'Satara'.