Today Jim and I took our inaugural Nitrox dives.

We jumped on the one of the new boats at Sunset House and headed out to the Kittiwake with Victoria, Toby and Ty.

It was raining. I can report we were wetter on the surface than under the water!

The first dive was great and as an added bonus we were treated to Silversides.

A really nice dive. Our second dive was to the Ora Verde. This is the wreck of a sunken banana boat scuttled by its crew after the captain refused to share the profit from an illicit second cargo…

Here the benefits of Nitrox really became clear. We were able to dive for nearly an hour at 50ft.

We would have run out of air long before we reached our decompression limits!

We found green moray eels and my personal favourite A drum fish!

By the time we got back the weather had cleared up enough for a beer and to watch the sunset.