By Nic Faulks (1st September 2019) After a bit of WhatsApp-ing, it was finally decided that the six of us would take the Sunday afternoon slot on Oceanic with Derek as skipper. An early start would have meant a very really early start for the retirees, and we could have that! So a 1.30pm ropes […]
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By Nic Faulks (23-26 August 2019) This was “our” second club trip to the Sound of Mull. Well, I say “our” but both trips were actually organised by Dave Taylor who is the chief of Durham Divers. He couldn’t fill the trip with his club members, so kindly allowed us all to come along again
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28 July 2019 By Nic Faulks This year we have had 8 people sign up and undergo training for the Ocean diver qualification. Of these keen divers, two have progressed on to Sports Diver training, plus a new member, making three trainees. The weekend of the 27/28th July was full of activity with the lectures
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7-14th July 2019 By Nic Faulks Not strictly a club trip, but I thought it would be a good article to put on the website to enthuse divers about the opportunities that are out there. Since first donning a rebreather, Si and I have been wanting to dive the wrecks of Malin Head, the big
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By Andy Moss, ( 22nd June 2019 ) I tried to arrange a St Abbs dive on 11 May and had Pathfinder booked for 6 divers but as so often proved to be the case in the summer 2019, the sea was smooth during the week whilst I was locked in my cell but come
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May 2019 By Nic Faulks A team of intrepid divers set out on the 26th May 2019 in the rhib to visit Gun Rocks to clear the trail, install the marker buoy and check the trail ropes. The forecast wasn’t the best, but we hoped to get at least one dive in before the wind
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20 April 2019 By Nic Faulks It’s Easter and the weather is looking okay for a change. Not like last year when the beast from the east (version 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3) ruined our fun. So in between all of the diver training, we squeezed in some salty club diving at St Abbs Voluntary Marine
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19 April 2019 By Nic Faulks Having come through the winter, and some training at Ellerton Lake, it was finally time to finish and qualify the Ocean Divers at Capernwary. So on a sunny Friday morning (Easter Friday no less); a merry band of instructors: Andy, Si and Nic, met up in the car park
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6-7th April 2019 By Nic Faulks Easter was late this year, so we managed to fit in a Mull trip before the Easter break. The trip was organised by Dave Taylor and ran like clockwork. We stayed in the Morvern Dive Lodge which as ever was very comfortable. Dave had also arranged for us to
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01 April 2019 By Andy Moss After lots of publicity around the region the function room at the Ravensworth Arms was taken over for a second hand sale. With the function doors wide open lots of kit was unloaded from car boots and arranged on tables around the room. All sorts of kit was for
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05 January 2019 By Andy Moss The morning of 5 January dawned (eventually) cold and dark. A number of club divers wanted to go diving, so had arranged to go diving on the Farne Islands. The first dive of the year is always special, memorable and vitally important to do early in the year. Whilst
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