The wind eventually dropped to allow the waves to calm down making a shore dive possible off the North Norfolk coast again. Mark and Jason had already dived on the Rosalie several times in the last few days so they decided to dive at Sheringham.

Simon joined the other two at the promenade in Sheringham outside the Burlington hotel and was lucky enough to park next to Mark. Parking there is free and is usually very busy in the height of the season. There are also public toilets nearby and a nice grassy patch to set up your kit and put your wetsuit on.

We walked down towards the sea under the arch and to the left up to the lifeboat station. We walked down the slope used to launch and recover the lifeboat and entered sea. We swam out for quite a long time, the depth was still only about 2 metres and the viz wasn’t very good, I couldn’t see my knees. We swam out further and eventually the viz improved and I could see the bottom.

Dive 1

• Divers: Simon, Mark, Jason
• Max Depth: 8.4 metres
• Dive Time: 80 minutes
• Water temperature: 17.2 degrees C
• Viz: 5-6 metres
• Dive details: We descended to check the seal on Jason’s mask, he wasn’t happy so he wore Mark’s and Mark used Simon’s spare. We swam out underwater for a long time until we eventually came to the chalk gullies and arches inhabited by lobsters, crabs and lots of fish. As we went up and down the gullies we had to avoid getting caught up in the ropes that connected the lobster pots. As we headed back we could feel the tide had started to run and the visibility deteriorated as we got closer to the shore. We surfaced East of where we entered so we had to walk up the steep stony beach and then climb the steps onto the sea wall, up the slope through the archway and back to the cars where we took our kit off and laid it on the grass.