Saturday, 22 September 2007

Zanzibar 11 September 2007

Went diving off Mnemba Atoll with East African Diving. http://www.sansibar-tauchen.de/eng/

Saw dolphins. Did two dives to about 20m. In spite of havng told them that we thought we needed 6-8kg of weights, the dive centre gave us 4kg (Jenny) and 5kg (Mark), which was inadequate, meaning we had to fin down rather than descend normally, and also made it nigh on impossible to do a safety stop at 5m on the ascent as we would have had to be head down and finning hard with all the air out of jackets to stay at that depth once our tanks were nearly empty. Not impressed.

That said, everything else about the operation was well run. The wanted to see our PADI cards to check our qualifications and the briefings were thorough.

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