Malta 2015 Holiday - Day 2

Alarms are going off at 7am because Rob and I need to be at Techwise for 830 and because we haven't got anything in the house, we will stop somewhere for breakfast. Walking through Paceville, we stopped in at the Black Bull for breakfast and coffee before then wandering down to Techwise for 830.

Flying 1600 miles to eat the same food as home!

It was a straightforward morning of analysing gas, loading up the truck with (a lot) of cylinders!

And off we go to the marina to meet the boat.

Launching from the RIB

The rib arrived, we loaded up and took the 5-10 min ride out. I had to try on two wetsuits during the drive out. In the end I settled on a two piece wet suit to give me the comfort and thermal protection. It had been my initial plan that we would start with easier back-gas only dives and then build up to the trimix dives later, nothing like starting off the wrong way around! I have been diving about twice a month for quite a while so I felt reasonably good that I could jump straight in with this level of diving, I still had some apprehension though.

You can read the dive report here.

While waiting for the RIB to come get us, I couldn't resist doing the Richard Rawlings (Fast 'n' Loud / Gas Monkey Garage) "woo"!

Back on the boat, its time to chill!

Reflecting on an awesome dive!

Rob - serious!

Once we arrived back at the dock, we loaded up the truck and headed to Cirkewwa to dive the P29.

A beautiful day at Cirkewwa.

While we had lunch Steve 'scary' Sherry was decanting to refill our twinsets. Rob and I ended up with about 140 bar, so we would take our deco stages and breathe them on the way out to extend our range and preserve the back gas for when at depth on the wreck.

You can read the dive report here.

A rapid de kit and loading up the truck and we left to head back to Techwise. Whilst sorting out our gear we met Julie, Chris's wife. Discussing the plan for tomorrow, we would be diving the Hellespont, like the Imperial Eagle it was at 40m+ so we elected to use trimix with 50% for decompression again.

Retiring to Huggins for the mandatory deco, Rob and I had lunch and got to know Chris and Julie - a lovely couple! Rob and I retired home to the apartment where we watched the dive porn of today. I was still pretty tired so took an early night again, 8pm, to rest up for tomorrow.