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The following is a divers comments about one dive in the Blue Lagoon.
7.30am
outside the gates waiting, as usual, for someone to open up. When the gate
opens, what seems like a mile drive across country finally allows me to view
through the trees the other Blue Lagoon. I had not seen the water from the
Boat House/Club House side before.
About 40 years ago I used to swim and dive from the Hitchin side, the crane I remembered from that time had long gone, but the briefing informed of a couple of sheds, stacks of ironwork littering the bottom (beware compass readings) and an environment similar to our "Bluey", both being flooded clay workings.
Dan and I, at approximate 180° bearing swam straight across, following the undulating bottom (maximum depth about 12 metres I would think). Visibility good, weed cover over the bottom more prolific than ours and greener. At the far bank we turned left and followed with the bank to our right until we came upon the sheds, one intact, the other missing its roof. Information was that large pike used them for shelter or whatever, so I wasn't brave enough to enter just investigate the exterior, two large trench were doing the same thing.
Heading on past other debris Dan was surprised when I nearly pulled his leg off, he fins faster than me and whilst catching up I saw this massive pike motionless on the bottom. I thought Dan had not seen it, hence the leg pull. I have seen pike in our Bluey about as long as my arm and broad as my spread hand, but this one dwarfed them. I do not think both arms spread out would have spanned its length and both hands side by side hardly did its width justice. It didn't move, but I did, slowly away, after a long hard look, from a distance.
Dan and I headed back to the jetty, or so we thought, when the trio of local divers swam by, so we tagged on to the line. We would have surfaced about 25 metres away from the jetty, but our "hitch" brought us exactly back to the start point.
Another very good dive, more memorable maybe because of the similarity of names and a bit of nostalgia.
Pete
Reproduced from Milton Keynes Sub Aqua Club web site
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