The weather forecast wasn’t good, but the mighty Serenity was going diving anyway. We basically had the ocean to ourselves, as everyone else had cancelled. But with westerly winds forecast, shelter was to be had on the east side of outer Farne Islands in an area called the Hopper. Although the wind was strong, off […]
Relaxed day on the Farnes Read More »
23rd August 2020 Spellbinder dives A bit of grey morning dawned, but at least the sea was flat. There had been some heavy rain in the days preceding, and the tides were very springy – not an ideal recipe for good visibility! But hey ho, if anyone can find a wreck to dive with some
Written by Andy Moss A snorkel and Three Local Shore dives, Browns Bay, Cullercoats. After months of lock down and not having dived since February in a very cold Capernwray and during one of the month’s three storms, following a change in the lock down guidance which permitted diving subject to precautions, I decided it
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9th August 2020; Written by Andy Moss. The club has had a couple of ocean diver trainees this year. Kim started her training early in the year and did her first open water divers in Capernwray in mid February along with a number of divers from Newcastle University Sub Aqua Club (which I was a
First Sea Dives, South Gare, Teesside Read More »
Friday dawned with strong south eastly winds and growing swell, so there was a bit of a worry as to what the diving on Saturday would be like. Well the wind dropped over night and so too did the swell, but not totally, it was still about 1m smashing up on to the rocks at
Swelly seas at St Abbs Read More »
25th July 2020: Well this was supposed to be a lovely trip to the Farnes, with 12 club divers, diving from a hard boat. Everyone was excited about covid compliant group diving as the GT boats are quite spacious. Unfortunately, we turned up to find that there was a group of 7 on the boat
Not so Glad Tidings! Read More »
Again, this was the first Spellbinder trip of the year, with the June trip having been cancelled as DEFRA had jumped in and banned all charter boats in the UK for a couple of weeks. With sense prevailing and charter diving resumed, we were able to head out of the Tyne, aboard Spellbinder, with Alan
Tyne wrecks with good vis! Read More »
Sunday 12th July and this was our first club boat dive of the year. Lockdown cancelled a lot of our diving plans, including a week of wreck diving out of Plymouth, a weekend in the Sound of Mull and a Bass Rock Isle of May weekend too. Time to catch up with some diving, now
Pathfinder – St Abbs Read More »
