Graham\’s Dive\’s and Rants

So Whats Next ?

Having had one of the worst seasons ever i thought long and hard about what to do with the whole diving scene, and where it was taking me. I also looked at family life and how my kids are growing up fast and I’m missing it all. So after a long talk with Gary i have put all but the main pieces of kit up for sale, I’m going to have a break and do some climbing with my daughter who’s now 9 add into that some skiing in the winter and some trekking to go along side the climbing. I’m now looking forward to doing something rather than waiting for the weather to break so the only good days I’m diving and i see the kids on days that are that bad we cant do anything.

I started my family after the forces because of the job i was doing, i never wanted them to be fatherless and that was a good chance they would have been, I have two of the best children i could wish for and i seem to be very selfish when it comes to diving, And i don’t want my daughter diving just yet. It’s not very kid friendly when I’m diving 60 to 90 meters is it?

I told a good friend what i was doing and they said they are sorry i was doing this, I’m not looking for all the “sorry to see you go” etc I’m not I’m looking forward to the next year I have got my rack sorted and Devon has some really good climbs of all levels and some good walks to get there, and i couldn’t think of a better evening than sat with my daughter at a climb discussing the route (camping of course)

I shall still keep looking in on YD, SWM and others because as 90% of them are armchair divers i shouldn’t have no problems and i can piss people off with the best of them, when i do start again it will be on the sentinel rig after a course with rich Stevens.

So thats it most of the kit gone some bits left and another chapter starts kind of exciting teaching my daughter, short post this but why make up crap thats meaningless i leave that for Fiona

Graham

September 4th, 2008 Posted by grahammills | Uncategorized | one comment