How it all started

This project started as a desperate attempt, really, at not having diving slowly vanishing out of my life. Juggling full-time work, family, friends and other interests than diving often strikes out full day trips to the best dive locations already at first base. Then, You start looking at the local dive sites with new glasses on. Maybe that nearby silty, shallow dive at a water plant intake installation isn't too bad after all...

Well, yes it is. It is a bore. Having dived it numerous times over the course of the last few years of relatively intense diving, I know. It works fine as a place for the first one or two open water dives for basic training classes. It works fine for testing that new piece of gear You just can't wait to get wet. But as a site for fun-dives, repeatedly expecting some sort of visual impression and at least one or two "wow!":s... No.

So I needed to rethink my whole approach to the place. I wanted to like it - I needed to - in order to get some diving done, and having some fun while doing it. At the time - I'd say late 2007 - I had been watching videos and reading reports from the feats of the WKPP. This is diving at a slightly different level than where I am (and probably ever will go).

But it was awe inspiring and made me think about what kind of kick I needed for diving to be fun again, and also about how to fit The Pipe into this. Adventure. Expectation. Camaraderie. A few good laughs and a pizza around the corner from the dive center afterwards.

And so, the idea of extending diving at The Pipe came up. Why just swim up and down that pipe that we've seen so many times? Why not venture out into the unknown to see what we may find?

The more I thought about it the better the idea seemed. This would develop stuff I once learned but never used, like mapping and search patterns from the Divemaster course. Maybe I'd even learn new stuff? Or maybe I'm just repeating Napoleon; invading Russia really did seem like a great idea at the time.

Anyway, being a person who likes playing with words and who gladly buys anybody listening a good laugh on my own expense, the Boring Kortebo Plain Project emerged in my head. I presented a colleague at work, Johan Deimert, with the idea. He was immediately in flames, and off we went...

     -- Håkan Olsson, February 21:st 2008

PS It's the plain that's boring, not the project. Thought I might add that. DS

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