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Alan Dunster: Wreck Detective
For those who’ve only heard the rumours of the pots of gold (OK, brass!) in Alan Dunster’s garage check out Leigh Bishop’s article in the July issue of Diver magazine which details the efforts to identify a Channel ghost ship, “Identity Crisis” and name-checks our very own wreck detective Uncle Al.
Newhaven: Familiar but fantastic!
It was with a growing familiarity that we drove into Newhaven last weekend as we seem to have spent most of the preceding couple of months there. We now build in time for a cup of coffee and a fried egg sandwich in the excellent Captain’s Table cafe and it was there that we met [...]
Your best dive so far?
The Thistlegorm (Red Sea). Thesis, Radas, (Oban) Zenobia (Cyprus) or may be the old Scapa Flow favourites Karsruhe, Tabarka, Kron Prinz Willhelm. Or something closer to home such as the Scylla or even The James Egan Lane (Plymouth). All wonderful but reasonably costly to do. Well here’s a cracker for £25.00!
Last weekend we dived the [...]
Blast from the past: June 1976
I have slowly been prising old copies of the Club’s newsletter (‘Triton’ then ‘OK’) out of Uncle Al’s hands and now have a year’s worth of news, reviews and comment from years gone by which I plan to revisit each month to see what the hot topics of the day were. This month sees us [...]
Phenomenal Plymouth
Flat calm seas, great visibility, blue skies, hot sun and basking sharks. Yes, if you had been one of the lucky crew who come on the club bank holiday trip to Plymouth this year you would have had a great time.
We were staying in the Mountbatten Centre which offers basic but comfortable accommodation however the [...]
All Wight Diving
On Friday 8th May 13 of us (unlucky for some) headed off to Lymington for our first UK dive weekend of the season. Half the group stayed with Cynthia Doherty and her husband, Roy, in their beautiful home. The other half stayed almost next door at Haven Hurst House B&B, also a lovely house – [...]
Life as a Diver cox, its not all flasks of Tea….
It is only going to be a matter of time before I can not fit into my dry suit. As I am expecting the arrival of Baby Tresidder in October, my diving activities have been some what curtailed for this year.
Being a qualified diver cox, I still have managed to get involved in the [...]
Great news about Club RIB diving
The RIB season has got off to a flying start and a lot of members have had a great time diving from RIBs. SeaKing, our new RIB, is proving an enormous success, it’s bigger, faster, more comfortable and, surprisingly, a lot cheaper to run! We have also negotiated a better deal for launch fees.
With reduced costs I [...]