Cyprus – Zen diving
Cyprus – Zen diving When in a warm country and by the sea it would be rude not to have a dive so, not wishing to upset the locals, I took the plunge. Staying in Paphos I gave CyDive a shout and soon lined up a couple of shallow dives. They do a lot of…
TSAC 50th Anniversary Quiz Night
TSAC 50th Anniversary Quiz Night To continue our celebrations of our 50th anniversary we held an anniversary quiz at our club, The John Alker. It was great to have 30 people attend including new and long standing club members and it was also great to have some prospective club members attend. Thanks must go to…
Menai Boat Run 2023
Menai Boat Run 2023 This is the annual excuse to get the dive boats out of winter storage and onto the sea in the company of other dive clubs from Wales and the North West. With that in mind our DO (Steve Bettison) decided to have a run out and took a boat over to…
Buoyancy and Trim Workshop
Buoyancy and Trim Workshop The Buoyancy and Trim Workshop includes one theory session and two open-water dives. In it the diver is taught the value of control and relaxation to achieve an optimum position in the water and to understand what affects buoyancy underwater and the practical steps you need to take to achieve and…
The Royal Oak
The Royal Oak The clubs founding member, Graeme Campbell, took part and helped organise a remarkable expedition to the Orkneys in order to film and record the wreck of the Royal Oak. Later in the year he will be giving us a talk and a viewing of the video that was produced at the time.…
International Women’s day – 8th March
International Women’s day – 8th March Not your normal club news but I thought it worth writing about. When we think of divers and innovators in diving the classic names are Jacques Cousteau, Hans Hass, Bob Hollis, Jean-Michel Cousteau, John Cronin, Ralph Erickson to name but a few. It is very rare that the list…
BSAC recognition
BSAC recognition We are proud to have received official recognition of our 50th anniversary from BSAC. BSAC have formally recognised our club reaching 50 years old. Originally formed as Sale sub aqua in 1973 (by Graeme Campbell) the name changed to fit with the changes in boundaries brought in by Greater Manchester and we became…
TSAC 50th anniversary dive
TSAC 50th anniversary dive This is the first of our 50th anniversary celebration events. Having got in contact with the founder member of our club we discovered that our first official logged dive was at, what is now an inland dive centre, Eccleston Delph (Eccleston Delph – Home – Eccleston Delph (thedelph.com)). The original dive…
Sharm El Sheikh
Sharm El Sheikh Originally we planned to dive Aqaba but as Easy Jet cancelled the flights we looked further south and chose to return to the steady favourite of Sharm El Sheikh. Six divers in total (five experienced and one relatively new diver). We arrived at the hotel late at night and were pleasantly surprised…
Capernwray – the Ted Tandy
Capernwray – The Ted Tandy Sadly the training dive for the weekend had to be cancelled but we decided to head up and check of a couple of dives on the Fifty@50 list and also to look over the new attraction, the Ted Tandy, a former barrow pilot boat, named after the hundreds of hours…
TSAC AGM 2023
TSAC AGM 2023 Agenda Dissolution of the 2022 Committee and election of 2023 Branch Officers – Paul Tweedale Position Nominee Proposed By Seconded By Elected Chairperson Paula Garbett Nick Haigh Debbie Carrier Paula Garbett Diving Officer Steve Bettison Richard Scarsbrook Dave Godson Steve Bettison Treasurer Ben Flanagan Paul Tweedale Lisa Kean Ben Flanagan Secretary Paul…
Mexico – ‘1 DOWN’
Mexico – ‘1 DOWN’ To celebrate our 50th anniversary we have set ourselves several targets based on the theme of 50. One of the whole club challenges is the ‘50 DOWN’, challenge. Over the year we are aiming to record the location of any dives completed and record 50 different sites/areas. Hopefully we will have…
