Kicking off UBUC’s 2025 with a winter dive! 6 divers made the trek to Baddacombe, to brave the cold water conditions, despite the air temperature being relatively mild. The plan was to conduct a single dive in the day in order to introduce some rookie members to the necessary dry 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…
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!
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…
On Sunday 6th September, a group of 6 UBUCers, including two newly-qualified ocean divers, headed down to Babbacombe on a beautiful sunny morning. Babbacombe was seriously busy and no surprise as the sun was shining, the vis was ~5m and there was plenty of life to be seen. Conga eels Read more…
Back into the sea within the same week due to fairly good vis and calm conditions. Upon arriving and seeing the stunningly flat water in the bay, we were all very excited for our upcoming dives. In two waves (with the drysuit divers being able to stay under for close Read more…
On Sunday, 7 UBUCsters headed down to Babbacombe bay in Devon for some autumn diving. For two of us it was our first dive in UK water and safe to say it was not the temperature or visibility of the tropics but still an amazing experience to see below the 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…
8 UBUC’ers headed down to Babbacombe last Thursday for an evening of diving with the cuttlefish! We left Bristol just before 5pm and managed to get down to the beach before 7pm! There were a few divers heading out of the water when we arrived, most shaking their heads saying Read more…