Foreword – Chris 14 UBUC’ers headed off to Egypt (Hurghada) with Blue o Two on Blue Melody for a week of diving in the Red Sea on some fantastic reefs and wrecks. The original itinerary was supposed to include the Brothers Islands but as it was closed due to recent Read more…
On the 16th-18th November Eleven UBUCer’s headed down to Plymouth to what they thought would be a weekend of diving. Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas. The weekend started off, as most UBUC trips do, with boat trouble! Yay! After we finally got out to JEL, we dropped the shot Read more…
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…