Check out some of our recent trips!
Easter PK this year was a true UK diving experience. The trip had the perfect number of people and skills on it, we had enough kit, and everything was looking set up for an amazing week of diving. There was one aspect though which held us up – the UK Read more
On Saturday, 8 UBUC-ers headed down to Charmouth to dive the Baygitano, a club favourite known for its huge shoals of fish and lots of congas. We planned on doing two dives and some boat handling practice for Jake, Emily, Ollie and myself. After an admittedly slow start, we made Read more
On Saturday we headed down to a beautifully sunny Chesil cove for a day’s diving. After securing a jammy parking space we kitted up and got going. The first dive was a combined sports diver lesson/ fun dive and we were lucky enough to see a barrel jellyfish, a catshark Read more
Last Saturday UBUC teamed up with CSAC for a day of practical rescue management for some of our Dive Leader trainees. We headed over to a surprisingly warm Cromhall Quarry (a nice change seeing as some of us have only seen it in the snow) to practice what to do Read more
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