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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 – [...]
First outing for Sea King
On the weekend of 25th and 26th May the new RIB made its first outing with the branch. With some last minute preparations during the week the boat was finally ready to go fully kitted out. So how was it? Here are some of the quotes: “Is that engine still running – I can’t [...]
Big Waves and Big Fish in Challaborough
As the waves crashed over the sides of the rapidly filling RIB it was clear we were running out of time. Weighed down by the water and pushed ashore by the breaking waves we risked smashing the prop on the rocks. Between sets we managed to turn the boat bows into the surf and Dave [...]
Newhaven with Britvic, April 2009
If you don’t count Portland, this was the first proper RIB trip of the season and bracing themselves for the cold water was Chris H (in charge), Dave T, Ian and Gail (braving it in wetsuits), Mariuz, Howard and me The plan was to meet at half eight, with the idea of (optimistically) launching at nine. [...]
The Crazies have been to Portland again..
Well, it was that time again. First weekend in January and the usual band of Crazies headed to Portland for the annual club trip. I had decided to hand the mantle over to Tom to arrange the diving and in Tom’s usual organised and methodical manor, the weekend was executed with the pose of a [...]
Cyprus 2008
Sunday 14th September 2008 at 8am I woke up with a jolt. Yahoo! The Cyprus Trip has arrived. Gawd, would my dive bag pass the 21kg threshold of Easy Jet. I put it on the scales one more time. Right on the money, (excuse the pun), hopefully. Right!! Cyprus here we come. Been looking forward [...]
Another year, another “fantastic” Farnes!
Bigger and better every year. After a bad year for blown-out club diving we were again very lucky to get three full days’ diving in for 32 divers in fairly good conditions and with reasonable visibility!
Fantasitic Farnes!
Another fantastic August bank holiday was spent diving with Seals by a record number of Kingston & Elmbridge members this year.
Diving Scapa Flow: A Primer
There are seven ships of the World War One German fleet at Scapa Flow. These comprise of four light cruisers and three Battleships…
Looking back on my first Farnes trip.
Searching for the briefing notes for this years Farnes trip I unearthed this report from 2003. Brings back a few memories…