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After a bottom time of about 20 minutes down at a depth of 25 metres it was time to start our ascent. My novice diver’s inability had almost ruined the dive but Colin’s stoic perseverance had saved the day and introduced me to the world of boat diving.
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Learning Curve
“A little learning is a dang’rous thing”
Pope, An Essay on Criticism
For the next couple of years after my introduction to the amazing undersea world of Scottish coastal diving I turned up every Sunday for club dives around the north-east coast. My diving skills developed as I explored an underwater fairy-tale land of plunging cliffs, massive subsea canyons, gorges and subsea caves amidst all the rich and varied sea life of Scotland’s shores.
I moved down to Stonehaven, some ten miles south of Aberdeen, in 1984 but still kept my links with my dive buddies in the Ellon branch of the BSAC, now some 40 miles north of where I lived. I jointly took a small loan and invested in my own 5-metre orange inflatable dive boat, an Aberglen Gordon with a Johnson 35hp outboard engine.