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I was hooked for life - and continued at my training, turning up for weekly lectures. I began to understand the mechanics of how all my equipment worked, what it was for and started to learn something of the physiology of diving - what was happening inside my body as I dived.

After 6 months of training and a move to Ellon, I joined the local branch of the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) there. There were number of very experienced divers at this branch and the club dived regularly and went on expeditions to far flung exotic parts of Scotland. It all seemed extremely daring and exciting.

Soon after joining the BSAC in Ellon, I turned up at my local dive shop in Aberdeen, Sub Sea Services to buy my first wet suit. At that time everyone was still diving in wet suits – the dry suit revolution had not yet happened in sport diving. With great relish I bought the biggest dive knife money could buy, a wet suit, a 72 cu ft. aluminium dive tank and harness, weights and a weight belt and a Fenzy ABLJ. The Adjustable Buoyancy Life Jacket (ABLJ) was a large, bright orange horse collar life jacket that went over your head and was secured by a couple of straps, one round your back and one under your crotch - so you didn’t drop out of it.