Divers: John, Chris, Malin, Dave, Sarah, Mark and Dilys.

Saturday: Persier, JE Layne; Sunday: Elk, Poulmic (or close to it).

Weather on Saturday morning was perfect, but we still had to launch the boat first. The tide was at low water and the slipway was green! After last years experience with Torvill and Dean (Richard Bellis and Dave Merrill) we roped the trailer to the tow bar and let the boat in gently. Mark in particular made some spectacular back peddling moves (Tom and Jerry style) as the boat carried on down the slipway regardless.

This situation was really helped when we overheard an instructor standing at the top of the slip saying to his pupils "you don't want to do it like that...."

Anyway with the boat launched it was 26 knots all the way to the Persier and we were first there; the GPS was spot on. Visibility was 8m an excellent first dive.

Flushed with success it was off to JE Layne for the afternoon dive, but in the middle of the sound were six or seven dolphins following the boats in and out of the harbour. We watched them for a while and then pressed on. The JE Layne vis was disappointing compared to the morning dive, it was getting quite rough waiting on the surface and half the crew threw up.

Sarah researched a new pub for the Saturday night and we were well fed and watered. Discussion revolved around the luxury of Bovisand dorms, seasickness, and Malin led the discussion on which way to turn your bike to go round the corner - don't ask! I can't remember much more but we did e-mail Mole from the pub about something that seemed really important at the time.

Off to the Elk in the morning, you are advised to get permission from the Port Control, the "long room", before diving. Unfortunately, the radio was dead and so we attempted to use a mobile phone 3 miles out - directory enquiries are not very helpful. At this point Mark parted with his breakfast, luckily another rib arrived with a radio. We had 40 minutes before a tanker was due into harbour. Nice dive on the Elk - plenty of fish.

Over lunch we watched the free diving national championships for about five minutes or the 'floaters' as someone called them. Malin got his trampofoil out and the rest just had lunch. Bovisand decided to clean their slip way. Thanks guys but why didn't you clean it on Friday? In the afternoon we went to look for the Poulmic. I haven't found this since they demolished the gas towers in Plymouth. The GPS co-ordinates off the web were not good, but this is broken up wreck in rocky gullies. So just a scenic gulley dive! The 2 pairs went in opposite directions and went quite some distance Malin thought about getting a lift home with a fishing boat but used his air horn instead.

Final trip figures: Dolphins 7, Seasickness 5, Wrecks 3