Karl Holford
Karl belongs to: The Diving Centre Ltd
Karl learnt to dive through his father Stan. He grew up with diving with his brother Michael. Karl manages The Diving Centre Ltd, providing the diving community with equipment, training and advice.
Karl was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 17 January 2006. The interview took place at Discovery Museum History office and lasted 38 minutes and 50 seconds.
Smells
"It’s the last thing you want to hear- you don’t want to smell anything"
It’s the last thing you want to hear- you don’t want to smell anything, because if you smell anything it would be to do with the air, which means that the air you would breathe would be then tainted, so no. The air that you breathe is like Swiss mountain air, you know, it’s filtered and really pure. So anything which has got taint of a smell to it would be the air. But underneath the water, no, your nose is all enclosed with the mask, so you can’t smell anything.
Karl has 17 memories in the memorynet:
Karl's memories with a Danger theme:
Smells
Diver and jellyfish
Karl's other memories:
- Growing up in the diving community
- Learning to dive in the North East
- The Dive School
- Sea life in the North East
- Weather and conditions
- Diving routines
- Development of diving equipment
- Sounds
- St Abbs Head
- Cawfield Quarry
- Moving the Diving Centre
- Scapa Flow
- Freddy the Dolphin
- The Diving Centre Ltd
- The Diving Centre Ltd
This memory has these themes:
Danger | Sounds and Smells
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