
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…

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…

Lifesaver training
Lifesaver training One of the great strengths of our club is the training provided for members. A variety of courses are offered by the team of instructors lead by our DO (Steve Bettison) and our TO (Steve Gresty). This years we have planned the Ocean Diver, Sports Diver, Dive Leader and Advanced Diver courses. In…

Loch Long, a day out
Loch Long, a day out A question to start: What do you do when given an occasional day’s holiday to go Christmas shopping? Answer: Grab the opportunity with both hands and go diving, and where better than Loch Long? Loch Long is just North of Helensburgh on the West of Scotland an offers unparalleled diving…

Freedive course
Freedive course – AIDA 2 – Pool Freediver Having watched the freedivers at our pool sessions, read about freediving in dive magazines and watched various Guillaume Nery videos (Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean’s Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier – YouTube) and ‘Defending the Vandenberg’ (Defending the Vandenberg – YouTube), Also, between diving…