Antarctica Pictures - Diving 2

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14/ Sometimes the weather was nice enough to bask in the sun for a while too.	15/ Usually it's a case of get there, dive and straight back to base again.
16/ Getting out is as difficult and ungainly as you can imagine	17/ Check there's no seal to land on and in you go.
18/ A convenient natural gap in the ice is a real bonus	19/ Sometimes you could walk to the dive site
20/ Ice and weather sometimes conspired to make diving even more fantastic than normal	21/ Scenery is pretty good too when you come out
22/ At other times though, it was just incredibly cold and hard work!	23/ OK, time for just one more dive if we can find some water that is