2nd August 2009 With a brisk SW breeze and bright sunshine, club members enjoyed two separate organised dives this Sunday. One group, Mike, Maurice, Simon and Nicola opted for a shore dive off Howick. This exercise involved something of a hike carrying their dive equipment down to the shoreline, but had the advantage of a […]

01 Aug 2009 By Richard Booth With a sizable southerly swell running up the coast, any plans to dive to dive Bell rock was clearly a non starter. Instead a mixed group of divers from Tyneside 114, Bishop Auckland and Durham City divers assembled on the pontoons at Eyemouth harbour and loaded their kit aboard

25th July 2009 By Richard Booth Several years ago, Tyneside 114 use to dive its own secret wreck. Originally, Dave Simpson had discovered the site, whilst he was completing survey work for one of the local water companies. Trips were made in secret, to avoid other divers finding this wreck. Situated in 30 metres of

5th July 2009 by Richard Booth Conditions came together this weekend to dive one of the Farne islands most spectacular dives, Whirl Rocks. Situated some 200 metres east of the Knivestone reef, Whirl Rocks consists of a series of underwater pinnacles that rise up from 30 metres to within a few metres of the surface.

30th June 2009 By Richard Booth With many of the regular Tuesday night divers recovering from the weekend trip to Mull, numbers were down for this Tuesdays dive. In the end 7 turned up to be greeted by a smooth sea and slack water! In view of the smaller group, the decision was made to

14th June 2009 by Richard Booth It was an early start from Beadnel to reach the site of the Somali in order to catch slack water, but this effort turned out to be well worth the effort. Arriving on site it was evident that many other divers had had the same idea as we were

2nd June 2009     A Tuesday night dive on a familiar wreck off the Tyne but with a difference, namely for once excellent underwater visibility of around 10 metres… On arrival at the site the shot was dropped and anticipation grew as we watched the line streaming away down into the depths. We excitedly

May 2009 This year’s Tyneside 114 expedition to the Mull had a simple aim; to seek out new dive sites off the South West tip of the island. Whilst most dive trips to this area of Scotland tend to focus on the wrecks in the Sound of Mull, the waters surrounding the island itself also

16th-17th May 2009 by Richard Booth The problem with booking any UK based weekend trip well in advance is that you are entirely dependent upon the great British weather. In recent years the May Scoutscroft weekend organised by Durham city divers has had something of an unlucky record when it has come to good diving

10th May 2009 by Richard Booth Fresh back from extensive engine repairs Sunday provided a good opportunity for ‘testing’ the clubs osprey RIB, Sea Eagle. The weather forecast was not particularly promising but fortunately turned out better than predicted. Sea Eagle was duly launched from Seahouses and engine firing on all cylinders headed out towards

2nd May 2009 by Richard Booth With a brisk Westerly breeze Spellbinder headed out for the site known locally as the Cider wreck in the hope of finding some clearer water as well as gaining some protection from the wind. Things looked quite promising with the shot line remaining in view for some depth. On

25th April 2009 by Richard Booth Light winds and a blue sky, heralded the first official club dive out along with a group form Newcastle University Sub Aqua Club on the Farnes in 2009.   The party assembled at Seahouses harbour to await the return of the booked charter boat. The original plan had been

21st of March 2009 After a week of light winds and the magic combination of small neap tides and bright sunshine on the planned day of diving, things were really looking up. On arriving at the pontoon in Eyemouth harbour it soon became evident that Derek had taken heed of suggestions made from the previous

28th Feb 2009 With a reasonable weather forecast for the day of brisk south westerly winds, we booked another charter on the MV Scimitar which operates out of Eyemouth harbour. Once kit was safely stowed, the coordinates of the wreck of the SS Shadwan were loaded into the GPS and the M/V Scimitar headed down

22nd February 2009 After a week of westerly breezes and no real rain to speak of, the opportunity to attempt a shore dive at Greenend Gully seemed too good to miss. On driving up the track from the new harbour it was soon evident however that a combination of heavy ‘diver’ traffic and winter weather

20th Feb 2009 The original plan for Saturday had been to conduct some dive leader training at St Abbs and given that our RHIBS were in for engine repairs and service this left three options for diving: none (or a muddy puddle somewhere inland), shore diving or last minute hardboat. Up until relatively recently there

15th February 2009 It is not often that one gets the chance to ‘test dive’ a new dive boat! This Sunday however, just such an opportunity arose. The M/V Scimitar is a Blyth 33′ catamaran that is currently in the process of being fitted out to meet the demanding needs of the dive charter business.

February 2009 by Gordon Lambert Following the previous branch Ice dive to Cawfields Quarry (see Ice Breaker January) we couldn’t miss the chance to do it all again. Second branch dive of the year and we are back under ice. In the week which saw most of the country ground to a halt with heavy

 January 2009 First member of Tyneside 114 to dive this year was Gordon Lambert who managed to spend the first minutes of 2009 under the surface of Wastwater celebrating the New Year. The Hunts also managed some New Year diving during a ‘dive’ break up at Oban. For the first ‘official’ club dive however, we

December 2008 With a mixed weather forecast we loaded our dive kit aboard the in the Elizabeth G at Oban railway pier. Next morning with a freshening south easterly breeze the Elizabeth G headed up the Sound of Mull. It soon became evident however that the conditions were too rough to dive the wreck of

31st October – 2nd November 2008 by Nic Faulks A final check of the weather report on Friday 31 st October stated that the weather for the weekend on the west coast of Scotland would be calm, cool and clear. As we set off towing the boat up the A1 and into Scotland , we

18th October 2008 With a brisk westerly breeze blowing, both of the Tyneside RIBs motored out of Seahouses Harbour before turning North and opening up the throttles and speeding up the coast past Bamburgh Castle towards Lindisfarne. The aim of the days diving was to locate the wreck of the SS Coryton off Ross Sands