Despite some minor confusion over the clocks changing, four UBUC’ers headed to everyone’s favourite quarry for some OD and SD training. In what may be a historic first for the club, all the divers were in drysuits–some for the first time! The water was cold as balls but vis was Read more…
It was a wonderful trip to Chesil Cove, Devon in Chris’ nice cosy Ferrari that surprisingly fit 5 BCD’s, 10 cylinders and 5 eager divers and their kit. For my first time diving in the UK I was expecting brown mucky water with <5m visibility but to my surprise we Read more…
On the weekend of the 20th/ 21st of October. 14 UBUCers (including a few new faces) headed down to Lyme Regis to dive the SS Baygitano! Despite the sub-par visibility, we still managed to get some good diving in, and all around had a great time! We all had an Read more…
On the Friday 5th October, 9 UBUCers squished into two cars and headed off on the long drive North to the Farne Islands for the weekend! After a cosy night in a shared bunk house we woke up nice and early (with no electricity) to get to the bay for Read more…
37 try divers, 9 instructors, 11 helpers, 3 hours in the pool… what an evening! We all had an excellent time at the Try Dives this year. Many thanks to all of our instructors and helpers for volunteering their time to come help us out, we couldn’t have done it Read more…
On Saturday six of us went down to the south coast of Devon for some diving and SD training at the wreck of the Louis Sheid. Sam and I went first, using a compass bearing and some geographic features (lining up a house with the arch off the beach) to Read more…
Foreword – Chris 12 UBUC’ers headed to Gozo, Malta for 10 days of fun in the sun. With no winds pretty much all week, 20m+ vis, and a great bunch of people, it was an awesome trip! For anyone planning to go in the future: We stayed at Dar Tan Read more…
After training and diving so far only in UK water, where better to have my first tropical dives than on the Great Barrier Reef with Reef Encounter (or Reefie). With four days booked, I was lucky to visit a range reef dive sites at many different times of day, from Read more…
Over the weekend of the 19th of August 6 of us tried our luck at getting over to Lundy island to do some of the fantastic diving on offer there. In particular we had obtained a licence to dive the protected wreck of the Iona II from the warden. We Read more…
We headed down to Babbacombe for some Ocean Diver training on Saturday. The vis was OK at high tide (4-5m), although at low tide this was somewhat reduced. Still, training was productive and well done to Freya who completed her Ocean Diver qualification! Currently all the spider crabs seem to Read more…