Vobster

Vobster Trip Report 29/06/2023 Bright and early on a Thursday morning four divers headed down for another sunny day at Vobster Quay, myself and Luis were there for the morning session with Will, who very kindly got up bright and early to DM for us. He was waiting for Edu Read more…

After a pleasant 8am departure, Harry and I headed down to Vobster to explore the sunken treasures of that cold, dark pit. There we met Becca, Stuart and Chris, who’d arrived (much earlier) to do some SD training. Before entering the quarry, I noted all the experienced looking divers were Read more…

Gruelingly early on Saturday morning, 12 UBUC’ers eeled into their tightly packed cars and headed down to Vobster Quay for a morning of diving. This was the perfect opportunity for Chris and Jase to instruct the two OD trainees and five SD trainees in the art of being a fish… 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…

Bad weather saw us having to unfortunately cancel a weekend trip to Babbacoombe, but we were still able to go to Vobster for Anna, Josh and Sam to complete some Ocean Diver training and me, Emily and Jo to do some Sports Diver training. On our first dive we focused Read more…

On Sunday Chris, Simon and I went for a day of training at Vobster Quay. The plan was to complete Simons last OD lesson and try and complete the remaining lessons of my SD. Our first dive was the distance line SD combined with the OD navigation lesson. The quarry Read more…

Swapping (grey) seals for (leaky drysuit) seals at Vobster quay! So with Storm Brian cancelling our plans to head up to the Farnes and dive with seals this weekend, a group of us headed inland to Vobster Quay on Sunday for some quarry diving! First to hit the water were Read more…