On a lovely Saturday morning, a group of UBUC’ers rose at dawn to travel to the picturesque seaside town of Lyme Regis. For a lovely bootcamp warmup, we carried the boats and equipment what felt like miles to launch them into the water. We then set off into the beautifully Read more…
A small group of UBUC’ers headed down to Babbacombe as after Monday’s storm, there weren’t many sites diveable. Although the visibility was a bit pants, we still saw lots of crustaceans including lobsters and crabs, and we even managed some open water training too!
On a rainy Sunday October morning 5 divers headed down to NDAC for some training. After taking the minibus down to the shore we started out with a rescue dive for Matt’s training and a forward roll entry for Bryony’s to finish their Sports Diver. Vis was pretty good at Read more…
UBUC welcomed 37 new trainees as part of our Try Dives (during Bristol SU’s Give It A Go week). Thank you to all that attended, including trainees, instructors and helpers – we hope you had an amazing time and we hope to see you again in the water soon!
7 of us at UBUC ventured to Devon on an early Saturday morning for a shore dive at Babbacombe beach. After setting up the kit we split the OD’s and trainee ODs into groups to practice some diving. For many of these divers it was two years In the making Read more…
Vis reports stated that Swanage was ‘4m and getting clearer’ so we decided to head down to see what all the fuss was about, introduce some new members to the club and finish off some training. Well, not sure who posted ‘4m’ but that was definintely not the case – Read more…
We travelled to Chesil beach Saturday afternoon and completed two shore dives with the objectives of finding sea life and completing an OD’s training. During the first dive OD 003 was practiced and afterwards we went for a short exploration of the rocky, reef areas during which we spotted many Read more…
We couldn’t have asked for better weather to begin some of our new Ocean Diver training. With three days of diving and training some new boat handlers it was a very busy trip. We started out with a dive at Crownhill Bay where we began OD training and lots of Read more…
As one of our boats has never left stores yet, and the boat fettling had mostly been finished, we decided to get them out on the harbour for a test run and to check everything was working. Aside from missing fuel bulbs on the new fuel lines it went pretty Read more…
With OD and SD trainees nearly finished it made sense to pop across the bridge to NDAC where we could get the depth required plus see some wrecks that none of them had seen before. Lots of good training was done and congratulations to our two new Ocean Divers!