Jeremenemenemenemenemeny's Celebration

A toast for Jeremenemenemenemeny is proposed by Mr Wood

Where's my dinner????

Wojciech, Aleksandra, Suzanne, Kevin and Woody are still smiling.....

Aaarrrr - that's better

(Kevin leans back to make room for his tummy and reveals Dave!)

Our future divers (currently forming the Nintendo Club) - Elen, Tomos and Cerian

Helen embarrasses Jeremenemeny by telling him how brilliant we all think he is.......

(Tommy, Hazel and Sue listen carefully)

Jeremenemeny looks bashful

(also starring Nia and Ann and others previously mentioned, and Caroline and Martin leaned back too far)

(This is taking ages - I'll finish the story later)

from Lig

Ice Times

I have just returned from my field season so I thought I would share a view of the Antarctic summer. The view is not so different to a UK dive, you will see dead man's fingers and a sponge, but there are a couple of differences. Most of the animals in this picture are two species of sea cucumber, the pink one and the brown one. All of them have their feeding tentacles out and are making the most of the plankton bloom. For most of the time I was there the viz was appalling, often 1-2m, but that is summer, when the algae are making the most of 24 hour daylight. There is also a sea spider, a pycnogonid, on the dead man's fingers. This is one of the groups that are very common in the Antarctic and species are larger here than anywhere else. In the shallows there are more mobile fauna, including this nudibranch and the fine clear filaments are the feeding tentacles of a polychaete worm, a group that is also very common around Britain.

The seals in the Antarctic attract some summer visitors and it seems that every year we see more and more orca. We would often see them 3 or 4 times a day, which really stops the diving.







However, when you see pictures like this, when they are feeding on seals, then it is quite easy to see why we prefer to stay out of the water!