November 2015 Words by Richard Booth Photography by Richard Booth and Richard Moss This year’s annual pilgrimage to the blue waters of Malta took place a little earlier than previous years trips, in the hope of encountering better weather. We were rewarded for our efforts by a week of blue skies, sunshine and clear water. […]
Tyneside 114 Malta Winter Warmer Read More »
2nd August 2015 Words and photography by Richard Booth With an ebbing tide and the Knivestone reef nicely exposed providing good shelter from the retreating tide, it was a good time for a bit more exploratory diving on this remote reef We started off on the main area of wreckage with both pairs of divers
A Drift in Pipers Gut – 2nd August 2015 Read More »
August 2015 by Richard Booth The week prior to the planned day on Spellbinder started very promisingly with light winds for the majority of the remaining week. Hope continued to rise throughout the week, but then the heavens opened and Tyneside was awash with flash flooding with the resulting water running off into the Tyne.
The Hunt for Clear Water – wrecks of the SS Ferryhill and the Pandora Read More »
April 2015 by Nicola Faulks After weather watching all week, the Seasearch dives are definitely on! Good news, but the weather was a 3-4 North Easterly, so there would be limited places to hide from the swell. Although these were seasearch dives, we did have 4 Tyneside 114 members on board. Richard Moss our newest
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Sunny, sunny, Scotland and the Sound of Mull. By Nic Faulks A few weeks have passed since we did this trip, so I am sitting here on a drizzly day catching up on trip reports. One thing that strikes me about the dive logs for this weekend of diving, in the Sound of Mull, are
19th July 1015 By Richard Booth The seaward side of the Knivestone reef usually offers some shelter from the ebbing tide, particularly when much of the reef is exposed above the surface and there is no swell crashing on to the rocks. It is therefore not surprising that when conditions are good, it is a
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Back in May of this year I was asked by a friend at Northumberland Wildlife Trust (NWT) if I would be interested in taking an artist diving. Of course I replied, if I can spread the love of diving and the knowledge of the amazing life under the waves, then I am happy to. I
Filming Countryfile with the BBC Read More »
5th June 2015 by Nicola Faulks Typically Friday 5th June was a calm day with blue skies….. The diving was organised for the Saturday, which in true British summer fashion dawned windy, dark and not very summery. The forecast was for westerly winds of up to 80kmph. However a phone call to Allan returned the
Oslofjord Diving in a Force 8! Read More »
24th May 2015 by Nicola Faulks The late May bank holiday weekend 24th May 2015, perfect time for a dive? Simon and I had run the rhib engine back in April, so we knew it would start. We had also pumped up the tubes and checked the electrics. So we had faith that the boat’s
First Farnes Rhib Dive of 2015 Read More »
25th-26th April 2015 by Richard Booth One of the joys of membership of the BSAC is the opportunity to dive with other branches. In this case three members of Tyneside 114 joined a Durham Divers trip to Lochaline on the Sound of Mull. So it was that the party assembled at the Morvern Dive lodge
April 4th-5th 2015 written by Richard Booth photography by Richard Booth, Tiago Moreira and Nicola Faulks The forecast earlier in the week was poor, with strong winds and rough seas predicted. Nicola however promised to do her mysterious weather dance, and as the week progressed and as anxious eyes scoured magicseaweed.com, the first glimmer of hope
St Abbs’s Easter weekend 2015 Read More »
31st January – 1st February 2015 by Nicola Faulks The first club diving of 2015 – organised by Si as a “winter warmer” (?!) on board Fyne Pioneer with Simon Exley. Too be honest the trip, when advertised back in September the trip filled up very quickly with 10 brave souls. Sadly at the last
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