Aboard the "Lyre" Chasseur Mines in operation in front of Bastia
The reason that allowed me to board the Bâtiment de la Marine Nationale is that we reported (Club de Plongée) at the beginning of November the presence of a torpedo south of Bastia. The information was to remain confidential but the Press spoke about it recently:
Following this, here are some pictures of my two days stay aboard the "Lyre" Mineshunter and the National Marine Mine Divers.
The building arrived on Bastia on Thursday 17 in the early afternoon or I boarded for two days.
I thank the Commander, his Second, the Minesweepers and all the crew for the great welcome I received on board.
It is an extraordinary adventure to see all this small world on board, whether it be the diving exercises, but also the life on board the crew, the safety exercises (Fire ..). I had the right to the full course on CRABE, the semi-closed rebreather of Minesweeper and a detailed visit of the ship.
The watch of the divers:
The camera of the divers:
To be continued ”A day with Minesweeping Divers in Action”…
Story and Photos Stéphan for Corsica-Photosub:
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Sorry I must have taken too long ………
which I would find laudable, and even more than that, natural, normal etc if we went to the end and we get out of our form of colonialism to us, that is to say if all these young local DPs really exercised their instructor profession, it would then be a kind of sustainable development version diving, with transfer of proportional responsibility to the local populations, but this is not the case, or at least not often! for 1 year, these “monitors” have only been arguing Low cost for center bosses, I even know some who are declared “dive masters” to stick to the law and who do not even have a pair of fins to go into the water. And by pity, spare us the very short list of Egyptian instructors my friend, we all know them, and they are all our friends…. Which proves that they are not numerous. And I maintain, I don't care which chapel we're talking about, but the kind of “rule” Marie Aline speaks of is only a mark of incompetence or at least ignorance of the subject. Once again, and to be really useful for beginners, not making a stop is not, far from it, a method to achieve improved safety ... limit the depth yes, even if that annoys me personally but I am campaigning for generally, to limit time for the same reasons and because in addition it allows to be on time at the table, but to pretend to put that into equation and to conclude that not to leave his computer switching to deco mode is enough to improve safety is untrue.