Part of the Gun Rocks funding was earmarked to increase the knowledge of archaeological survey techniques for club members. Although some members already had some Nautical Archaeological Society training, many didn’t and we chose the BSAC Wreck Appreciation course as a good starting point. While this course focusses on wrecks where there is a recognisable […]
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Words and images by Richard Booth Tyneside 114 has a long history of diving in the Shetlands dating back to the early 1970’s when club members first ventured to these remote Islands in search of Viking long ships! Still ever optimistic, this latest Shetland expedition had the ambitious aim of travelling out to the remote
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The second Spellbinder trip of the year, this one with Richard Moss as the dive manager, in order to work towards gaining his Dive Leader Qualification. Give him his due, he had arranged good weather, sunshine and some good visibility!! The first dive was on the Lonclara, just off the mouth of the Wear (Sunderland).
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Bill Cooper kindly organised this day of diving, but could not participate, so Dave Woodward took over the organising. The diving was off Pathfinder, running out of St Abbs with Paul O’Callaghan and his big yellow catamaran. The divers on board were: Nic, Dave W, Nick , Maurice, Dave (a guest of Dave W), Ray
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Each year Simon organises a Tyneside 114 trip to the Sound of Mull. Always a firm favourite with our club members, it generally books up at least six months in advance. Guests are welcomed too; this year we had visitors from Poseidon and one from South Bay Scuba. After a long drive up to Lochaline
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Club dive from Spellbinder, off the mouth of the Tyne. The weather was sunny and relatively calm which was nice. We had four visitors for this dive: Zoe and Mike from Yorkshire, who have dived with us before, and Stuart and Chris, two local divers both of whom I have dived with at St Abbs.
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Three whole days of diving organised for the late May bank holiday, with at least one dive a day on Gun Rocks. Time to get the new marker buoy in, to remap the cannon, and, if time permits, to start the photogrammetry of the cannon left to do…. Saturday 27th dawned so bright and sunny.
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This trip had been a few months in the planning, essentially picking a weekend when the tides were right so that we could get a nice long slack on Whirl Rocks. Also using a hard boat meant that everyone on board could have the full slack window diving the reef, rather than just half of
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Words and images by Richard Booth With a mixed group of varied experience, including some for whom this was their first sea dive in open waters, it made sense to opt for two relatively shallow dives in sheltered water, especially so early in the season. First site selected by Paul O’Callaghan, the skipper of the
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Three days of diving up on Loch Fyne out of Tarbert onboard Big Blue, with Malcolm the Skipper – Fyne Diving. The journey up was quite straight forward for most people to get to the log cabins at West Loch Shores, however, Sue and George managed to stop in the wrong Tarbet. Many phone conversations
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Early season dive at Ellerton Water Park, principally organised as training for our two newly pool qualified Ocean Diver trainees who were heading out in to open water for the first time. A number of other people came too to test our kit and shake down after a dry winter. The two ocean divers Josh,
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