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…
Foreword It all started with ‘can we run a UBUC trip to the Philippines’. We spent weeks trying to work out how this could happen. Unfortunately, we felt that due to logistics we had to keep the group size small. Turning up in a new place without booking anything can Read more…
On Friday the 3rd a bunch of us headed down to Plymouth with a flotilla of 3 boats. Two separate trips were planned, but lots of people dropped out – the amalgamated trip was a great idea though. We had fantastic diving conditions and ended up helping recover some abandoned Read more…
We headed down for a quick Ocean Diver training trip at Brixham to finish 3 Ocean Diver qualifications. Although the vis was terrible and there was quite a current at Shoalstone, we managed to do everything that we needed to get done. Congratulations to everyone for finishing OD and welcome Read more…
Indonesia – Anna’s first tropical diving! UBUC-ers featured: Carla Greco and Abby Dent The day after finishing uni this year I hopped on my first ever long-haul flight and headed out to Indonesia. I was staying on Gili T for most of my trip, which despite being known as a Read more…