St Abbs, June 2019 – “And then there were five!”
It didn’t bode well. A bad weather report and a skipper who was not sounding positive. Friday morning 8:20 and the message comes: ‘I don’t think we will get diving tomorrow, looking at the forecast strong north east for most of the day’. Time for a decision. Well, two couples were going up for a…
TSAC’s “Plymouth the return” 3rd – 6th May 2019
The annual bank holiday trip to Plymouth has not run for since the retirement of Richard and his classic dive boat, The Ceeking. This year we returned with the Mountbatten based dive centre InDeep, as it seemed time to renew our acquaintance with James and Glen. We arrived, as is the norm on the Friday,…
Try Dive Night – Weds 14th Nov
Trafford Sub-Aqua Club will be hosting their annual Have-A-Go Night on Wednesday 14th November 2018 at Flixton Ex-Servicemen’s club and Urmston Leisure Centre. The event gives newcomers a chance to give scuba diving a try in a friendly and social environment, previous experience is not required. The event kicks off at 7:30 pm, where after…
A weekend in St Abbs
Meeting early on the day you travel up is a good idea. Get the four hour journey over with, beat rush-hour, unpack, then kit up for a shore dive in the evening. That’s just what Steve and I did with an easy walk out over a rising tide to take a bearing to Seagull rock…
Shore Dive at Porth Ysagden
There aren’t many times I’ve set off for a days diving at half four in the afternoon – in fact I can say this was the first. We all squeezed into one (large) car and with Steve Gresty driving we were soon leaving Sale. It took us about two and a half hours to drive…
700th Dive
Congratulations to Neil Smitham, our current Diving Officer. A fantastic milestone of 700 dives. Well done, hopefully your 800th will be in more tropical waters.
Charts Worked and Positions Fixed
To compliment the recently qualified nine new Boat Handlers, TSAC recently ran a BSAC Chartwork and Position Fixing Skill Development course for its members. The practical ran over four weeks on club nights at the John Alker Club, followed by two separate groups putting their newfound skills into practice in open-water on one of the…
More boathandlers for TSAC
A group of nine TSAC members recently completed the BSAC Boat-Handling course over two weekends. A full day of theory at our HQ The John Alker Club, followed the day after for six of them on The Wirral at New Brighton, with the other three completing their training last weekend in fine weather. Great in-house…
Dinner Dance and Presentation evening.
A great turn out and evening was had by all that attended the Trafford Sub-Aqua Club Dinner Dance and Presentation social evening last night to celebrate 2017’s year of diving and achievements. Main raffle prize was provided by our guests from Aqualogisitcs and was complimented by donations from club members. A full list of the…
Christmas Dive and Meal
A great turn out from TSAC for the Christmas Dive at Eccleston Delph. Nine hardy souls braving the bracing six degrees water temperature for a minimum of thirty minutes, that’s 350% up on the normal amount of two going in! Lovely to then see a mixture of club experience turning up for the meal to…
Menai Boat Run
TSAC members on club boat Nessie joined in this years Menai boat run in early April organised by East Cheshire Sub-Aqua Club. Over 20 BSAC clubs and 34 RIBs sailed down the Menai at the same time raising £1,010 for the RNLI with a presentation to the Beaumaris lifeboat crew. With fish and chips organised…
A special dive in a special year
Congratulations to TSAC membership secretary, Paul Tweedale, who in this his 65th year on the planet, has completed his 65th dive of the year this weekend on board the Gaelic Rose out of Oban. A quick re-count with the Diving Officer last week sorted out the total done this year, and after being involved with…
