Diving

Loch Long Dives

I've dived at Loch Long 5 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 		4 Mar 1984 Loch Long Clyde Scotland 12 20 20 Iain Hosking, Mike Weitzner Three stars Dived with Mike Weitzner after he'd taken Eileen down for her first dive. Calm, not cold, and vis OK, about 4 metres. Lots of plumose anemones, crabs and some fish. own
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First dive Last dive 		3 Aug 1985 Loch Long Clyde Scotland 31 18 22 Iain Hosking, Carole Mullen, Graham Russell, Sarah McCracken Four stars Forecast SW 5 so called off the 'Kintyre' and dived at the usual spot in Loch Long. Straight down to 30m in very clear water, torch beams lighting first on a washing machine, then on huge boulders covered with anemones and feather duster worms. At 18 minutes ascended to 5m and spent another half hour among plumose anemones, wrasse, codling, blennies, crabs and clabby-doos. Good dive. own
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First dive Last dive 		15 Mar 1987 Loch Long Clyde Scotland 20 20 22 Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries Three stars Cathy's first dive. She survived the cold, dark, crowds, traffic, Jasper, mud, me, flooding suit and buoyant fins, to see sea anemones, flatfish, crabs, clabby doos, sea cucumbers and join the ranks of EUSAC! Bravo!
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First dive Last dive 		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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First dive Last dive 		26 Jul 1987 Loch Long Clyde Scotland 20 20 20 Iain Hosking, Clive ? Two stars Drove to St Abbs to find it was spectacularly too rough for diving, so turned round and drove to Loch Long. 270 miles altogether. Clive's first dive. Rather murky, and weather very wet.