Page 16 - GC, July, Newsletter

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LMC GENERALCOMMUNITY
SCUBA DIVING
OFFCABO DE
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PALOS, MURCIA
SOMETHING THEBIG MAN UPSTAIRS
DIDN'TINTEND HUMANSTO DO! .
Peter Thomson with Jo Golder and Ed Smith
Peter Thomson
I?d experienced some sky diving when at University. I loved the idea of doing something which the big man upstairs hadn't designed us to do, essentially flying through the sky. When I left University, one of my older compatriots at BP
the Lincolnshire, and Stoney Cove in Leicestershire. I remember coming out of an old brick quarry and being asked if I saw the carp and us (our!) tadpoles inajaratStoneyCove,wheretherewasonlyanold aircraft to explore (much better now by the way).
Peter ThomsonandsonGregseh
I bought a made to measure 7 mm dry-suit which could be inflated from my second-hand twin 45s and even bought a mould to make my own
lead weights. I manufactured a lobster Winkler out of 6mm control line when working offshore and pinched a laundry bag to put them in for the shore divesoff Aberdeenshire.
My dry-suit unfortunately shrunk, my twin 45'swent out of certification, and I ran out of lead to keep my blubber below the surface. Diving eluded me for years.
suggested trying scuba diving through the company's social club. It was easy to be persuaded since we hadn't been designed for swimming underwater either.
This was all on the early 1980s, yes ? quite some decadesago. Besidesa wee snorkelling trip in Malta, my UK diving experience included chilly Aberdeenshire seas, a couple of ex-brick quarries in