Ex CD's book (mine) :)

[SONAR-BENDER]

You were a monthly dipper ships diver, oh how we tortured them when they came to the section to get their minutes in

Yep, don't I know it! The odd time or two I unfortunately had to do monthly dippers, no matter how long I was in the water it always came to 59 minutes - funny old thing!

i was one of the rare ones that actually enjoyed 'the work' and was usually kept well employed either onboard or in Dolphin.

 

[WreckerL]

I was drafted to Faslane (Clyde Submarine Base Diving Team) twice to keep the sundodgers dodging. Prop changes, towed arrays, dry docking, torpedo trials etc. plenty of diving work, work hard and play harder I believe it's now called the Northern Diving Group.

You missed out your normal job, connecting the shit pipe

 

[Tommy S.]

You missed out your normal job, connecting the shit pipe

There's a funny incident in the book involving a thunderflash and a blocked shitter in the Faslane Diving section, you can imagine how it went

 

[superpom]

You were a monthly dipper ships diver, oh how we tortured them when they came to the section to get their minutes in

Yes you did, bastards!

 

[LifebuoyGhost]

Yes you did, bastards!

And I'll second that @sp - jackstay swims weren't the most interseting time and to find after all your effort of getting every last molecule from the SABA set you'd still not got an hour to log - sadists springs to mind

 

[WreckerL]

@Tommy S. was there any truth in the dit about a mahoosive conger living underneath AFD 60 or was that just an urban myth?

 

[Tommy S.]

@Tommy S. was there any truth in the dit about a mahoosive conger living underneath AFD 60 or was that just an urban myth?

Actually never heard that one, probably a dit

 

[SONAR-BENDER]

There's mahoosive congers everywhere!

There was a story years ago about a guy being dragged across Loch long by a giant conger - he was found wandering in the road on the other side from where he'd been diving or fishing!

I'll see if I can find it.

 

[SONAR-BENDER]

Here you go! I believe quite some time later the story was pronounced to be slightly less than 100% true and/or plausible.

Diver attacked by eel

Diver attacked by eel

www.independent.co.uk

Missing diver attacked by eel

A DIVER who went missing for 10 hours before being found alive was

www.heraldscotland.com