A good time was
had by all on the first of The Scuba Trust's bi-annual
trips abroad for 2004. The destination was the Movenpick
Hotel in El Gouna, Egypt. The hotel was nice (apart
from the lifts) and the weather was really hot.
We had 5 days diving (some people went for 1 more
day) with a dive company called "The Dive Tribe".
We were accompanied on most dives by Dani and Nemo
with Rob (the Dive Tribe head honcho) accompanying
us on the first day.
The diving was superb even if I couldn't look round
that much as I was doing my advanced dives and so
I was trying to concentrate on the exercises for
this. One of these dives had to be a wreck dive
and on the second day we luckily were going to a
dive site consisting of 13 wrecked ships. On arrival
that morning we had had a briefing on a wreck called
the Ghiannis D, a ship that had sunk in 1983 and
had a metal hull. I'm no nautical expert but after
1 minute of that dive I noticed that we were diving
the wreck of a ship with a wooden hull. Apparently
the Captain had thought we were diving the Ghiannis
D in the afternoon not the morning.
Thanks to Gill for organising everything
for a trip that seemed to have every ingredient
of a good time. They were:
Laughs
- watching Tony trying to swim back to the boat
(without fins) in a good strong current, before
a drift dive.
Tears
- me when I was told the bar had shut at 11.30pm
on the last night.
Joy
- watching Frank and Chris surface to hear they
had seen dolphins on the dive I had sat out because
of a stomach bug.
Pain
- Egyptian taxi journeys.
Interesting sights
- courtesy of Jackie.
And the best quote of the week came from Geoff Green
- "I NEED A MAN!".
And also thanks go out to Frank for not drowning
me whilst completing the advanced course (although
I think he tried to on the drift dive as we were
meant to land on a ledge 13m down and when looking
at my depth gauge it was showing 20m!).
