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Problems Equalizing – One Member’s Suggestion
As many members whom I have dived with know, I suffer from equalization problems with my ears when descending on a dive (and have attended ENT at the hospital for nearly 30 years, though not for this).
Whilst on holiday in Lanzarote a few weeks ago, the owner of a dive school told me about Otovent; [...]
A Lumpy Newhaven
Meeting at 11.00 in Newhaven was a relaxing start to what I hoped would be a relaxing day’s diving. Admittedly the weather forecast was not particularly promising, but with a few changes to the dive plan, we divided ourselves up on to Sea King and Britvic. On Britvic, we had Sarah and Gren Hamlyn, Dave [...]
Wraysbury Rescue Skills success
We had a productive day at Wraysbury on the 19th. Mariusz Isydorek, Leanne Collinson and David Allen were to attempt SP1 – Diver Rescue. This is a tough drill and it isn’t easy to pass, nor should it be as if you are ever in the unfortunate position of needing rescue, you want to know [...]
Congratulations – new grades awarded
Congratulations to Dorothea Klinge who is now an Ocean Diver and Jake Wright who passed Sports Diver.
Well Done.
Enjoy your diving and dive safely
Wraysbury ‘Rescue Day’ success
We had a productive day at Wraysbury on the 19th. Mariusz Isydorek, Leanne Collinson and David Allen were to attempt SP1 – Diver Rescue. This is a tough drill and it isn’t easy to pass, nor should it be as if you are ever in the unfortunate position of needing rescue, you want to know [...]
Congratulations – New grades achieved
Congratulations to Dorothea Klinge who achieved Ocen Diver grade and Jake Wright who passed his Sport Diver. Well Done
The Unofficial Report On Diving Croatia
In the world according to EasyJet you are allowed to have 32 kilos of luggage if you include sporting equipment, sounds simple, well yes and no!
You can have two bags if one of them is sporting equipment but you may be charged for the bag (no lies this is what we were told). For example, [...]
Blast from the past: July 1974
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 [...]
Cracking Croatia
Saturday morning of 16th May finally arrived. Everybody had been talking at the club on Thursday about how they were all packed and excited – well, I still had 2 hours before Jim and Audrey were due to pick me up so I took it easy and had a nice cup of coffee before I [...]