Whirl Rocks – Best ever dive
Nic and Tiago snuck off on a Tuesday for a wonderful dive off Whirl Rocks. Excellent visibility made for a great dive.
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Gorgeous Glanmire
Divers ready to go! A nice day for a dive, with no wind and a thin high cloud. Sea was quite flat too which is always a bonus, especially when the first dive was on the Glanmire. This wreck sits in about 30-33 metres of water, not far off the coast at St Abbs. It
Sunshine on the Farnes.
A lovely day out diving the St Andre and the Hopper in the sunshine.
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Farnes with a zip disaster!
First dive of the year on the Farne Islands. The weather was surprisingly good. Unfortunately Alison’s zip wasn’t closed properly…..
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Capernwray Season Opener!
First shakedown dive of the season, held at Capernwray so people can test kit and their skills.
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Clyde Diving – Amber Weather Warning!
Tyneside 114 members headed up to the Clyde to dive with Wreckspeditions, then an Amber weather warning was declared for rain…. so much rain. But dive we did. Two days of diving with visibility, wrecks and reefs.
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Farne Islands, Hiding From the Storm!
Kelp forest with sea urchins With the weather forecast for the weekend so poor, we didn’t know if the dive on Sunday would happen, but with no word of cancellation from the skipper, we all met up on the pier at Seahouses for a respectable 0930 ropes off. Seven keen divers, two of who were
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Farne Islands Pan Pan!
JJ Hartlepool towing us to port Finally, the weather looked wonderful, we had four divers, three of them diver coxes and the club rhib. Dave turned up with the bat on the slip at 0900 as arranged, we packed the kit in the boat, moved the cars and launched the rhib. All looked so good…..
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Spellbinder Joint Clubs Dive
Graham and Luke after the first dive Always love a day out on Spellbinder, it’s a three dive day with lunch in the middle, not may boats offer that. So we all gathered some on the north site and some on the south side of the Tyne. Spellbinder is moored up at Royal Quays, but does
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Sun Sea and Fun in Tenerife
Turtle grazing on sea grass at Abades Following a meeting in the pub in October 2022, where members expressed an interest in doing a warm water trip, we organized a club trip to Tenerife in June 2023. Early enough to miss the school holidays (expensive flights) but late enough to enjoy the warm summer water
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Fog bound in St Abbs? No!
The day started with fog, then as it cleared, we loaded the boat and had two lovely dives, wolf fish by the dozen and lots of pretty nudibranches – happy divers!
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Fantastic Vis at St Abbs
Due to a bit of a shuffle around of boats, timing and skippers, this was our fist club dive with Danny of St Abbs Charters. We all arrived on the harbour with kit, ready for the very pleasant 1pm ropes off. The swell seemed to be receding, having been quite significant in the previous days.
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Gun Rocks 2022
The first dive of the season has been undertaken on Gun Rocks, by four BSAC divers, from our club rhib. The intention of the dive was to remove the kelp from the cannon (under the MMO licence for the site) and to remove the dive trail rope, which we noted last year had been storm
Bass Rock – Well Nearly!
Written by Andy Moss For many years I have been trying to get to Bass Rock, but have never got there, for one reason or another, usually bad weather. The last attempt was also a challenge but that is another story. Anyway, in the knowledge that unusually I had two consecutive weekends child free, I
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Plymouth Wrecks with InDeep
By Nic Faulks – Diving 5-9th July 2021 Our club trip to Plymouth was supposed to have taken place in June 2020, but due to covid-19 it was rearranged to July 2021. A whole week of diving with six club divers and a couple of visitors! We all found our way down to Plymouth for
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Inspiration in 2020
By Andrew Moss October 2020 My first experience of a rebreather was on a Draeger Dolphin in the Red Sea in approximately 2003. Not wanting to rush things, 15 years later in February 2018, I did a BSAC Try Tech CCR day in Capernwray and tried the Poseidon and AP Inspiration units. A year later,
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Relaxed day on the Farnes
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
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Silty Sunderland!
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
June and August Shore Dives
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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First Sea Dives, South Gare, Teesside
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
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Swelly seas at St Abbs
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
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Not so Glad Tidings!
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
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Tyne wrecks with good vis!
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
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Pathfinder – St Abbs
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
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