Dives in 2010

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This year’s weather has been a bit better than last year and we have managed to achieve over 964 dives compared with 918 last year.

Our overseas diving included the Philippines, Red Sea (three times), Maldives and St Lucia.

Our UK diving has been centred on Plymouth with the Ribcraft stored at the Mountbatten Centre. This format seemed to work well from a logistics point of view. We had 6 trips and it would have been more but for bad weather.

There have been lots of one or two day visits to coastal or inland sites and these include Chesil Cove, Brixham, Thurlestone, Swanage, Dartmouth, Cromhall (7) and Vobster. Our August Bank Holiday trip was to Porthkerris with both boats and was very enjoyable, apart from towing back up the hill.

We also enjoyed some new dive sites notably to Lundy on the Pride of Bristol and out of Dartmouth on Falcon II. We also discovered Tinkers Shoal which lies to the west of the Mew Stone and stretches north to the Breakwater.

Our most challenging UK trip was to Scapa Flow on the Radiant Queen a superbly converted fishing boat with a lady skipper who has dived the wrecks extensively. The diving could be deep and dark but the wrecks were impressive and the guns and turrets are awesome.

The awards for most dives are a draw for the men this year: joint 1st on 78 – Bob and Tim, for the women, Mary was the clear winner for the second year running.

On a final note, in the past Tim has been a dedicated training Officer and one of the most enthusiastic Diving

Officers of recent years; this year Tim achieved a significant milestone, one which we don’t see very often. I am talking about 1000 dives a goal that many aspire to but few achieve – well done Tim!

Saturday 18th December, 2010 : Cromhall – Fun (Tim & Duncan) – see separate (brief) report

Sunday 28th November, 2010 : Cromhall – Fun (Tim, Chris H, Rob & Duncan)

Saturday 20th November, 2010 : Cromhall – Fun (Cyril…)

Thursday 28th October, 2010 : Grenada – Fun (Mike D…)

Sunday 24th October, 2010 : Plymouth – Fun (Tim, Jo, Laurence, Mary)

James Egan Layne – wreck
Mewstone

Saturday 16th October, 2010 : Cromhall – Training (Tim Sue E)

Friday 8th October – Friday 15th October, 2010 : Red Sea North & Brothers – Fun (Duncan, Bob, Chris H, Cyril, Geoff, Ian Con, John, Laurence, Mary, Mike D, Mike W, Neil, Sheila W, Steve H, Stewart, Sue R)

El Mina
Small Gifon Island
Gotta Abu Ramada
Big Brother
Brothers – Numidea
Little Brother
Salem Express
No 1:’Poseidon’ wreck
Ras Abu Soma
Ras Disha
Kimon
Marcus – wreck
Ghiannis D – wreck
Bluff Point reef
Rosalie Moller
Fanous

Sunday 3rd October, 2010 : Dartmouth – hardboat (Falcon 2) (Mike, Mary,Laurence, Sue Rosser, Tim, John, Neil, Geoff, Jo, Sue Eyres)

Maine – wreck

Thursday 16th September, 2010 : Cromhall – Training (Duncan, Mike D, Steve H, Sue E, Tim)

Sunday 12th September, 2010 : Plymouth – Fun (Laurence, Mary, Mike D, Mike W, Sheila W, Sue R)

Mewstone
Breakwater

Saturday 28th August to Monday 30th August, 2010 : Porthkerris – Fun (Duncan, Bob, Chris H, Geoff, Jo, John, Laurence, Mary, Mike D, Neil, Rhys)

Volnay – wreck
Mohegan – wreck
Manacles Reef
Drawna Reef

Thursday 19th August, 2010 : Swanage – Fun hardboat (John, Geoff, Sue R)

Kyarra – wreck
Peverill Ledges

Saturday 7th – Sunday 8th August, 2010 : Dartmouth – Fun (Tim, Jo, Bob, Chris H, Dave G, Geoff, Mike D, Mike W, Neil, Rhys, Sheila W, Sue E, Sue R)

Start Point – The Cherricks
Mewstone
Eastern Blackstone
Peartree Point Reef

Saturday 17th July – Friday 23rd July, 2010 : Scapa Flow – Fun (Duncan, Mike D, Andy, Bob, Laurence, Mary, Mike V, Neil, Sue E, Sue R, Tim) – see separate report