Written by Marnie. On Sunday 18th October, a group of UBUC divers made the trip down to Swanage Pier for Nick’s LP3 dive management trip! With training to be completed, marine life to discover and the very important possibility of underwater pumpkin carving, there was plenty to look forward to! Read more
11 divers descended to swanage bright and early, except Joe, of course, who was blissfully in bed ignoring our calls. The goal of today’s diving was a lot of drysuit training in preparation for Skomer and some well needed fun diving! We started the day off with a miraculously shallow Read more
Six divers arrived at a wet and windy Swanage pier on Saturday morning. The plan for the day was a pier dive in the morning, followed by a drift dive in the afternoon. Questions surfaced as to whether the drift dive would go ahead due to the weather conditions reducing Read more
Friday 12th July The group convened at Stores and scratched our heads about how to fit 7 people and 9 lots of kit (scuba and camping) into 2 average sized cars… Turns out, with epic tetris skills and an early go on the air cylinders for the passengers squashed into Read more
Early on Saturday morning, eight UBUCers headed down to Swanage pier for some diving in non-freezing temperatures. Chris, our resident fish, did four dives to train some ODs and SDs, so diving started quickly as Chris loses his powers if he stays on land for too long. The depth was 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
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
In the morning of Saturday 25th January, three of us went on a two-and-a-half-hour drive to Swanage. I was told that we would be diving off the pier, which on this day was a fairly relaxing (but freezing!) dive. After arriving, we made all the necessary preparations for a standard Read more
It was a surprisingly sunny morning down at Swanage, after the 2.5 hour drive from Bristol – or in Ollie’s case a 3.5 hour drive… We started the days activities with an introduction to UK diving for Rocco and Toby, some Sports diver training with Ellie, and some easy fun Read more
Swanage is a small town in south-east Dorset. You can park on the pier (easier for diving) but it is cheaper to park on the car park up the hill. The shop on the pier also has a small museum containing some artefacts from nearby shipwrecks including the Kyarra. The Read more