A persistence of the fine, windless weather meant that kitting up and departure happening in lightening quick time due to the clouds of voracious biting midges. However unpleasant these mini-flies with attitude may be, we have been learning to embrace…

Thanks to another 6 hour round trip to Lerwick by Ant and Dec, and the generous loan of a compressor from Ian in Uyeasound, we are (fingers crossed) now sorted for gas…

We woke this morning to thick fog, which soon cleared to leave us basking in blazing sunshine (and the inevitable midges). Our first dive was round on the stacks off Herma Ness, with the gannetry perfuming the normally sweet Shetland…

Hot weather? Bright sun? Flat calm seas? Today, Shetland is giving us all of these things. We have just stopped for lunch at Burrafirth having just dived a new site with gullies and vertical walls to 30m. Out Stack next…

Beautiful sunny calm day, but with no working compressor, no diving for us. But thanks to generous help from Hazel, skipper of the MV Valkyrie, and a long round trip drive to Lerwick, we are back diving now.