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Night dive from Swanpool Beach, Falmouth

Posted: 7th December 2009

4th december 2009

a chance meeting saw me standing at the water’s edge at 19:30ish thinking “ I must be mad...”
for the 1st 5 or 6 minutes after getting under I have to admit I was stilll thinking that, but gradually we got away from the soup and into clearer water and sleepy fish territory.
This was my 1st night dive, so I was glad that my new buddies had MUCH better torches than me (hint, hint Santa).
we came across quite a few sprats sleeping, 4 flat fish (and stroked a couple), juvenile brown crab, the usual velvet crabs and a tub gurnard who showed us his pecs (complete with shiny markings).
Navigation was easy - bearing straight out from the beach, swim for 15mins, turn right, hit rocks, turn right again - simple. Sand ripples really helped with direction.

All in all a great 1st dark dip for me…

11degC, max 6.5m, 45mins (and despite wearing a 5mm semi-dry only 110 bar!)

Comments

Mark said on 30th December 2009 at 9:54 PM

Swanpool is an easy dive at anytime of year. I’ve dived it plenty of times this year including a couple of times at night. I do think Porthoustock is a much better night dive though.

Mark said on 11th March 2010 at 6:37 PM

3 comments, 2 of which are spam. They like the URL link, so do I

sue said on 4th July 2010 at 11:03 PM

Hi Mark

Are you diving Porthoustock at night any time soon, if so hubbie and I would like to join you

Sue

Mark said on 5th July 2010 at 6:21 PM

Hi Sue

I’ve got to do it sometime soon for my daughters AOW course. I’ll let you know when, when I know

Mark

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