Annual Christmas dive and meal
Annual Christmas dive and meal The annual call had been sent out for divers and socialisers for the annual club Christmas dive and meal on the 28th December. As usual Steve (our DO) had booked the Cornerhouse pub for lunch only to find out that it had closed it’s doors, so a hasty phone round…
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…
Annual club dinner dance and awards night
Annual club dinner dance and awards night After several rebooking’s and cancellations, we finally got to the have our annual dance. Sadly, we still had a covid cry off, but the Awards night finally happened. Lisa organised the event and threw herself into the task, finding an excellent venue and organising the decorating and meal.…
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…
Scapa Flow
Scapa Flow An ex-member of TSAC (Chris Brough) wanted to dive Scapa Flow on his first visit back to the UK since the lockdown, so he got together 5 of TSAC’s current members to join him on MV Clasina for 6 days diving in October 2022. Four of us made the long journey up to…
Loch Long shore dive weekend
Loch Long shore dive weekend Neil and Paul arrived outside my house cars full of dive kit and snacks. Once the van was loaded we headed up the M6 to Helensburgh to meet up at the Couty Hotel, with the rest of the dive team. A quick unloading of kit and of we went to…
Rib news
Rib news The club ribs have been in use over the summer. There have been several trips to practice skills and also to complete dives at places such as Anglesey and Loch Fyne. In between times we have run the boat handling training with four new boat handlers qualified. These took place at Sale Water…
A long weekend to the Scottish Islands.
A long weekend to the Scottish Islands. With a weekend available for diving on the Gaelic Rose members of the club headed up to Oban on the Friday to take the opportunity of the forecast good weather. The problem with a weekend is that it doesn’t give the opportunity to go far but, as it’s…
Boat handling course
Boat handling course The practical boat-based course is one designed to give everyone plenty of time at the helm of a small dive boat to practise their skills, including how to operate a boat, how to check the boat over and how to drop and recover divers safely. A Boat Handler is defined as someone…
Second annual BBQ
Second annual BBQ Continuing the tradition started at the end of lockdown we held our second annual BBQ. The committee, once again, decided to continue with funding the BBQ and, as our club chair works at last years venue, we decided to return there and do it again. Paul Moore (our club social secretary) pulled…
Red Sea – Simply the best
Red Sea – Simply the best Third time of trying and the trip is finally happened. We left for Gatwick with a sense of relief rather than excitement and trepidation as the news was running items about plane cancellations. We had travelled down the night before and met everyone at the Europa hotel and met…
Treyarnon Bay snorkelling
Treyarnon Bay snorkelling Having gone away for a weeks holiday in Cornwall with the family I promised not to take diving kit. However we took wetsuits, and I honestly have no idea how, but a snorkel, mask and fins had added themselves to the equipment! It started off with a strong wind which allowed the…
