This Sunday morning trip was planned to be a fact finding trip. The purpose was to be to find alternative shore diving sites which were closer to home.

We had been told of the first site by mark, the DM on our Deep Speciality course. He also suggested the area where we were to dive over the bank holiday weekend. See later report for this, he has a lot to answer for.

Our day started badly when Dave picked me up and it was already raining heavily, but we decided to carry on.

The first site was a bay just beyond Mumbles, by the Big Apple. There were 2 potential entry points although because of the wind and rain both would have been very dangerous. We decided to try this area another day.

Our next 2 stops were at Langland Bay and Caswell Bay. The same story at each site, potential for diving but just too dangerous with the state of the tide. Even the surfers were not going in. So we decided to have a cooked breakfast before venturing on.

Finally we got to Oxwich Bay, which was very calm, at last a place to dive. The rain has more or less stopped so we decided to get kitted up. We decided to enter on the right near some rocks, unfortunately it was not very deep and we had to do a surface swim for about 200 metres. We then dropped down into about 2 metres of water and had viz of about 1 foot, after crawling along the bottom for a couple of minutes we gave up and surfaced. There being no point continuing we did the return leg of the surface swim and went to the pub instead.