Another weekend, another excuse for UBUC to drag themselves out of bed and head down to the coast for some diving. This time, we were off to Portland and Lyme Regis, with Luis taking charge of both trips as part of his Dive Leader qualification. Two days, two boats and Read more
On Sunday 15th of October, a handful of us went down to Lyme Regis, not to collect fossils, which undoubtably would have been a far more relaxing affair, but to go underwater for a little bit and forget about the world above for at least half an hour. This was Read more
On a lovely Saturday morning, a group of UBUC’ers rose at dawn to travel to the picturesque seaside town of Lyme Regis. For a lovely bootcamp warmup, we carried the boats and equipment what felt like miles to launch them into the water. We then set off into the beautifully 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 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
One of UBUC’s Assistant Instructors, Iain, requested on Thursday if he could run a trip to complete his Dive Leader qualification. Thus on Sunday, Josh and I headed down to West Bay to dive the Baygitano with Iain and Godfrey from NORAD Sub Aqua. We launched their RIB out of Read more
14 UBUC’ers left Bristol bright and early at 6:30am on Saturday morning, only to reach Lyme Regis and discover a very choppy sea. Even the harbourmaster was warning us not to go out, so in the end after a discussion we decided to postpone diving activities until the next day. Read more
We dived the Baygitano, launching our boats from the beach at Charmouth. We spent what seemed like half a day trying to find the dive site, only to realise we had the wrong coordinates in the GPS (twice). We also broke a prop coming back into shore.
A 20m wreck that can be dived at almost any state of the tide, although novice divers may find it difficult going on springs. Full of life (as in you will struggle to see the wreck due to all the fish in the way), this wreck is easily reached by Read more