Certificates
Certificates A small news item to celebrate the fact that our 40th and 50th anniversary certificates have now been framed and put up in the John Alker over in the TSAC corner (as I’m now calling it). The certificates were awarded to the club by BSAC and in recognition of our ongoing Fifty@50 celebrations the…
Sound of Mull – September trip
Sound of Mull – September tripOur group consisting of 11 TSAC members, 8 retired and the remaining 3 still working (boo), arrived in Oban on the evening of Friday 8th September at various times due to serious traffic delays around Lancaster and Glasgow. Afterloading our bags onto the Gaelic Rose (moored on the Marina pontoon) we met up in ‘The Corryvekan’ (Wetherspoons pub) where drinks and food were enjoyed until late. Saturday morning saw us setting off for a leisurely sail up the Sound of Mull for our first dive the Shuna (11…
Gods Pocket
Gods Pocket This trip is one of the best out there. Not only for the diving but the pure adventure of getting there and being there. The best way to explain it is to quote directly from the front page of the dive centres website.“God’s Pocket is an off-grid dive lodge nestled in British Columbia’s…
Gibraltar
Gibraltar A weeks leave to go diving and somewhere warm but different was required. Add to that a desire to keep the cost relatively low, the ideal came clear, Gibraltar. it’s a place I have visited many times for many different reasons and I’ve always wanted to dive there so it was an ideal location.…
3rd Annual BBQ
3rd Annual BBQ This year we moved the BBQ forward due to the number of summer dive trips taking place in August. Once again we were using the double decker bus and the facilities of Springfield Junior School for the event, thanks to our chair, Paula. It’s a great setting in the middle of Sale.…
50 Below – 1973 – 2023
50 Below – 1973 – 2023 As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations we arranged to meet at Capernwray and complete 50 dives in one day. The Capernwray team opened up early to allow us to set up together and organise our first dive before anyone else so that we could get some specific filming…
Video from 50 Below
Video from 50 Below I thought I would make this a separate link as the video created by Rick Scarsbrook is worth a look. A great day with the club achieving 50 dives in one day. Thanks once again to all involved.
St Abbs Trip (part 2)
St Abbs Trip (part 2) 10 TSAC members convened at St Abbs on Thursday evening 1st June to fill the Rock House bunkhouse in the harbour with 2 others using their campervans to add additional accommodation. Our contingent comprised mainly of experienced club members (Advanced Divers or Dive Leaders) but also had two novices as…
St Abbs (part 1)
St Abbs (part 1) An annual family trip to St Abbs gave me an opportunity to dive with Tony New (a BSAC member who has dived with our club on many trips). He is an experienced diver and enjoys photography so where better than St Abbs, in fact the photos used are mainly his. We…
The importance of testing new kit
The importance of testing new kit. A dive buddy of mine once described changing his dry suit like taking off a glove and putting on a mitten. Both do the same job but the old kit was a known quantity, it worked, he knew how it felt and new how it worked. Putting on the…
Troon Trip to Rosa & Ada
Troon Trip to Rosa & Ada (17-21 May) The plan was to take a RHIB to Troon to enable videoing of a Whitstable oyster smack, Rosa & Ada (R&A), for a film that one of our members was intending to make to celebrate the end of its career in Troon; and do some RHIB diving…
Charles 111 -1st Scuba diving monarch
Charles 111 -1st Scuba diving monarch King Charles III, will officially be the first British qualified Scuba diving monarch counts among, which he took up in the early 1970s. He learnt to dive in the Navy at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in September 1971. He wasn’t the first member of the Royal…
