A few of us headed over to Holbrough Lake in Snodland Maidstone for a short notice end of year dive. Paul, Val, John and I (George) met at the lake. The lake still had a layer of ice on and I must admit it looked very cold. After a coffee and a few mince pies we suited up, I budded up with John who left Paul and Val.
John and I headed into the water it was cold about 3 degrees but we weren’t going to miss out on the dive. After waiting a little while for Paul and Val to join us we descended for the start of what was going to be a great dive but it was cut short as Val had a small leak in her dry suit so paul and Val had to get out and sort the problem out me and John carried on with the dive.
we first looked round the boat Sweet Mystry John swam through the boat and out the front hatch and i decided to swim over the top.
After a 10 mins or so i started to have trouble with my regs they were going into free flow so I signalled to John and we headed up broke though the ice and tried to sort the problem out. After trying a few times and getting the same problem we decided to swim back for a well deserved coffee.
Paul and Val had fixed the dry suit problem and had gone for a dive but they had there fare share of problem with a stuck (frozen) inflator valve.
Even with the little problems we had it was an enjoyable day and i think i can say we all enjoyed ourselves.
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