Once again its that time of the month, no not “that” time, I’m talking about the “Doing It” club dive time. This time its inland, well it's October and winter is approaching fast. There’s no point making the coastal trek, just to get blown out, and have to spend the day in the pub (well ????, no we’ll go for a dive instead).

This month it’s something more than just a little different, and wow has it proved popular, with the places filling up that quickly Maya couldn’t write quick enough to get the names on the list. It’s called “The Rez” and in simple terms it’s a big boys (or should I say big ‘buoys’ – He He He) underwater playground.

As the collective gang gathered, a little excited but a little apprehensive, the chatter gathered momentum, as our allotted dive time grew closer. The dive time for this day was somewhat more exact than normal, as The Rez closely control the number of divers underwater at any one time. This of course is critical when you consider that the internal size of the dive chamber is only 40m x 20m, and is in a state of complete and permanent darkness.

The site itself was really very nice, the café (which of course was nearly drank dry of Tea and Coffee before during and after our dives) was staffed by some of the most friendly dive café type people ever. The general surroundings of the park made it a very civilized and attractive day out, well until we arrived anyway.

The Rez itself, we discovered, is a flooded reservoir dating back to the mid 1800’s (now there’s one you don’t get to put in your log book every day of the week), and is 40m x 20m site, fully enclosed and is in a state of permanent darkness. It’s not very deep, in fact I think the maximum depth any of the guys clocked was only 1.9m, however the complete lack of spatial awareness and necessity to navigate around the supporting structures made it a great adventure.

As there was no fish life, or in fact any life (ok we did bump into a “Hyatt” fish more than once or twice) the whole session was devoted to trying to find you way back to where we got in. Ok it wasn’t that bad because at least when we got lost we could stand up, well the taller ones among us could, sorry shortys.

All in all another great day out, and this time we were finished before lunch, so I think we all made it home to either eat or cook the Sunday lunch.