Ah hah! G-AVTN in 1975.

It's documented on the glenforsa website (I wish I'd started there) and on aviation-safety.net but can't find anything on AAIB.

The riddle of the lost flight | This Britain | News | The Independent seems to have the whole story but who in their right minds would think a pilot seemed competent enough to land at Glenforsa at night. It gave me hiccoughs to try to land there in the middle of a sunny afternoon!

Edit: and more recently http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3467055.stm

Even mentions the scallop diver!

From the BBC link above. A Royal Navy spokesman said:
"Sorry Chiefy, one metre too deep for us. Too bl**dy dangerous."

:ugh:

There's no point in having a rule if you don't stick to it.

GTW,

My tongue-in-cheek point was that the spokesman was probably misinformed. Non-decompression diving, which is what I and most recreational divers do, is limited to 30m. Deeper than that, you will need a decompression stop, on top of the safety stop which most divers do these days.

I am sure military divers, using conventional SCUBA gear, routinely go below 30 m, with appropriate safety measures and decompression stops.

Hey akaSylvia,

I watched a video with this kind of incident on National Geography.