April cold
Tuesday, 11th April 2006 by JulieIt’s April right? It’s supposed to be getting warmer! You wouldn’t think so to see the pictures of parts of the southern UK under 12cm of snow yesterday!
The bit that I’ve been trying not to think about, in between the icy winds and condensing breath, is that we’re be doing some training dives on Saturday…
We’ll be off to our favoured inland dive site – the Leicestershire quarry site Stoney Cove – and they’re forecasting a partly-sunny 13°C for Saturday. I don’t even want to speculate yet on what the water temperature might be – but sunny skies would definitely help.
These dives are with one of the highly skilled divers from our club; a great teacher but a man who has no sympathy with my lack of enthusiasm for the cold – and he also dives in a wetsuit!
In casting my mind back to how we ended up doing this in April, I can only come up with the excuse that this was the only weekend for several months when we all free. I guess it has to be better than the January dive we did last year but I confess that I’m struggling to work up enthusiasm…
For more details how it all goes, watch this space.
April 16th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Well, it was fine. The water got down to about 4°C, but was mostly at 7°C. More importantly, it ws sunny and the air temperature was abour 20°C and there was no wind. This meant that we were nice and warm before and after the dive, which makes a lot of difference.