All our diving in 2018 as it happened. Saturday 17th-Sunday 18th November: Plymouth – Fun (Claire, Luke, John, Colin, Tim, Chris H, Chris L, Kevin) Our traditional Winter Warmer; the weather gods were not kind but we got wet! Full report here Saturday 20th October: Cromhall – Training (Sue, Taz) A training session in one of our…
With a 9am ropes off it was a very early start from Bristol (for Plymouth) for the 8 hardy souls laughing in the face of the weather gods and trusting their fate in the great sport of UK Diving! The whole party was at the berth TopGun (our ‘chariot’ for the weekend) occupied outside Aquanauts…
By John: A group of 13 club members and guests of the club went to the Seychelles for about 11 days of diving with Big Blue Divers; the main group went to Mahé, the largest of the islands in the northeast of the nation while others stayed longer and saw Praslin and other islands. There…
A suggestion from Sue back in the first part of the year & here we are – tempus fugit & all that! Traffic from Bristol was easy though the contrast to the twisty little roads at the end down to Discovery Divers at Fort Bovisand was a bit of a challenge! Sue & Geoff had…
A week since the last diving excursion (late August Bank Holiday) so time for the next adventure! A return (as promised!) to Porthkerris where despite the weather we’d had a solid weekends’ diving with Porthkerris Divers at Porthkerris down on the Lizard in deepest darkest Cornwall. Our party was John & Jan (who went down…
9:00 Friday morning saw the advance party of Tim, Neil & Geoff at the boat shed to hitch up the Alpha to attempt to beat the traffic on the M5 to travel to Plymouth. We had a stress free trip to Venn Farm campsite to set up tents etc. before going down to Mountbatten to…
The 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the SS Bretagne – Friday 10th August 2018 by Tim Clouter In August 2003 the Aerodivers club celebrated our club wreck (The S.S. Bretagne) being 100 years old as a ship. Since we didn’t know the date she was actually launched, we chose the date of her sinking…
It’s really great when a plan works and thanks to the help of a few instructors and some keen and willing students, today’s ambitious plan ran like clockwork! To maximize the time available we met at Cromhall punctually at 9:00am. Those getting air or Nitrox were asked to arrive a bit earlier. Everyone was there…
For some years the club has been planning a return to West Wales & this years’ Spring Bank Holiday weekend provided the perfect opportunity. We took the alpha & camped at South Cockett camp site at Broadway to give access to either Broadhaven or Dale. Air was available at Haven Diving Services in Milford Haven and dive sites included Sheep Island,…
From Tim: Having heard that recent storms had scoured sand and gravel from the wreck of the Glen Strathallen, significantly exposing more wreckage, a group of us were keen to go down to Plymouth, launch our club RHIB and see for ourselves. The weather earlier in the week wasn’t looking promising and vis reports even…
Our trip to bring the RHIB to Plymouth in the week before Easter for the start of the dive season was significant for at least 3 of the divers present and so I’d like to present their views of the activities (critter photos courtesy of Colin) Claire, for whom this marked a return to regular…