Check out some of our recent trips!
Skomer August Trip Report Written by Phil Dobson, Kaden Elsey, and Alex Elwood. Photos by Kaden Elsey. Wednesday After loading kit into cars and the club boats into the van the group departed from stores in the early afternoon to arrive at the campsite and pitch up. With plenty of Read more…
Six divers arrived at a wet and windy Swanage pier on Saturday morning. The plan for the day was a pier dive in the morning, followed by a drift dive in the afternoon. Questions surfaced as to whether the drift dive would go ahead due to the weather conditions reducing Read more…
Day 1 – Saturday After an exhaustingly long drive, with Sam, Meg, Lewis and Dan coming from Bristol and Hayley and Alex from other parts of Scotland, we met in Oban just in time for dinner. We all went to a fish and chip shop and ate while trying to Read more…
Friday 12th July The group convened at Stores and scratched our heads about how to fit 7 people and 9 lots of kit (scuba and camping) into 2 average sized cars… Turns out, with epic tetris skills and an early go on the air cylinders for the passengers squashed into Read more…
A group of four left for Chesil on Sunday 30th June bright and early, leaving at 7:30am and arriving at around 10:30 am. The most direct route there went through many small winding roads through little villages; a very scenic journey but perhaps not the easiest to drive through! We Read more…
Departure and Arrival: We embarked on our scuba diving adventure on Sunday, June 23rd. The day started early, with our group leaving Bristol at 7:30 am. The drive to Chesil Beach was smooth, taking approximately two and a half hours. We arrived at our destination around 10:00 am, eager to Read more…
Trip to Louis Sheid Written by Chenjun Liu On the 21st of April 2024, four divers from UBUC completed a fantastic dive trip and trained as sport divers with three instructors. We explored the wreck of the Louis Shied. In the early morning of 7 December 1939, the Louis Shied, Read more…
In January a small group of UBUCers headed to Mauritius to see their diving dad – Chris. How did they get on? See below! Sunday 14th (and the beginning of Monday 15th – days all merge into one when you’re traveling!) by Georgia On Sunday the 14th, all five Read more…
On the 14th of December a group of 8 hardy divers headed down to beautiful Babbacombe. Myself (Ben) and Lewis were there for training, Lewis was keen to use his new OWI status to help me get some more of my DL training ticked off. This meant we were first Read more…
At the end of November we ran a OD open water training at Brixham Breakwater. See how they got on below! Saturday On the 25th November, 9 ocean diver trainees and their instructors took the 2hour journey to Brixham Breakwater, Torbay. Despite the early start and bitterly cold weather, Read more…