Check out some of our recent trips!
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 Jethro and Emily – our two Read more
The conditions (well, tides anyway) were perfect for an Eastern Kings shore dive so we headed down for a deep dive and some training dives in the shallows. Lots of boats had the same idea as we were joined out there by at least 2 other groups. Unfortunately the vis, Read more
Brixham and Babbacombe had very bad vis reports so we decided to try a new site – Newton’s Cove, which is very close to Chesil Beach. Be careful of the big sucky thing in the middle of the site, marked by a buoy, as well as swimming too close to Read more
With winds reasonably strong we took a gamble and went to Swanage Pier. The visibility wasn’t too bad at all, and was perfect for some students who had never been in the sea before, plus drysuit training, although it was pretty windy on the surface! Many pollack and bib under Read more