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We first started diving in the UK, we did our confined water in a hotel pool in Telford and then our open water training in Stoney Cove, an old quarry in Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire.
Stoney has good facilities, there is a good shop for all types of diving equipment, diver training on site, changing rooms with hot showers, a "cafe" selling hot drinks and hot food, there is also a licenced Pub for beer and sit down meal's.
Access to the water is very good with lots of entry points, in the water there are quite a few attractions to make the dive more interesting, an old Bus, Helicopter, the Stanegarth Tug, and the Cockpit, at 35 metres there is the "Box", a steel box you can enter from underneath and exit from the top, or vice versa.
It has been a while since we dived there, but they have been busy building a completely new building for the dive shop etc.

The Stanegarth, before sinking.

We did our training in Stony Cove, it was very cold at the time and we were both diving in wet suits. We soon migrated to dry suit diving.

The picture to the left shows me and Jan at Stoney, just after we qualified, we used to dive there at least once a week. It was much quieter there then than it is now.

A training day with our Instructor Andy Bird.

Jim and Janet at Dorothea in Snowdonia Wales, for us it is a long drive, around 2hrs 30min's. We allways find Dorothea a cold and strangely spooky place, you have to be fairly determined to dive in Dorothea, depending where you get in it can be a step climb, and after a dive that climb is even steeper.

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Janet at the Cockpit in Stoney Cove.	Just up from a dive in Stoney Cove


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