Another DSD at Flamingo

On saturday we had another great session at Flamingo, this time we had Niki, Marcus and Marko with us. We started off a little later than normally since another group was there before us, gave us an excellent chance to enjoy the wicker chairs, fake palms and general tropical ambience at Flamingo ;)

After the dive we had time to chat a little about what happens after the DSD, generally, you have only one option, go on the open water course to keep diving ;)

We'll be arranging OWD courses for those who want to go further asap so please let me via email if you're interested in joining.

Our next DSD is going to be in the beginning of April 5.4. and then we're going to Kaatiala 11.-13.4. ( edited, was wrong about the date )

Have a great week everyone!

Discover Scuba Diving in Flamingo Spa

The pools are a balmy 32 degrees, there's fake palm trees, coloured lights, a café with wicker seats and diving equipment. No, we're not in Egypt, this is Flamingo Spa in Vantaa, the site for our DSD this week.

First time DSD Leader (me) picks up his customers from the reception and after a call for someone to open the doors we get inside. My three colleagues, Mika, Kenneth and Matz have agreed to be my guinea pigs for my first DSD lead :D

After the paperwork ( which I'll let participants handle in advance next time ) we go to the pool and put on our equipment, I go through how the regulator, BCD and mask work and we're off.

After getting used to the equipment for a bit and learning to control our buoyancy we go to the 4m pool below the jumping tower and practice equalizing ears.

Everything went smooth and we had fun, I hope you guys also enjoyed it as much as I did :)

Next week we have a fresh group of Baswareans to dive!

3 days of diving in Kaatiala open pit mine

Today we got started pretty early, cleaned the cabin and packed our gear in the cars. Yesterday yours truly was filling the air bottles and managed to overfill a couple. Heard jokes about this all day ;)

We dove to the diving bell at 25m and made a trip to the "tourist cave" on the first dive and to the airplane on the second. I took the opportunity to touch bottom on one dive and measured 29,7m on the bottom.

Everyone were happy with the dives, we'd had nice weather for a change so the cold didn't bother us and many of us racked up some of our first proper "deep" dives in Finnish waters.

Lunch was steamed hotdogs and then I decided to start heading south to civilization. The drive is 330km so better get started reasonably early if you want to have some time with the family in the evening :)

Deep diving in the Kaatiala open pit mine

We were pleasantly surprised with nice weather today. We've had sun, rain and wind :)

On today's fourth dive we started off in the deep end of the mine and decended directly to the old diving bell at 25m. After a brief visit and some funny talk inside we moved to the "airplane" and after some photos we started our ascent. 3 minute safety stop at the 5m buoy and then out of the water.

Great dives today, hope we have this good visibility (8+ m) next time..