Diving Devonshire Bay - Piers Boileau Goad On a beautiful August day I met up with Sam Bennet of Ecodive here in Bermuda, at Devonshire bay, specifically Mary Prince park. It’s hot here, yet not just hot, it’s humid too. Just standing around chatting to Sam about the plan made me break into a sweat. Having decided on a plan,…
Rebreather Training in Key Largo - Piers Boileau-Goad Having arrived in Key Largo the day before, on the 23rd and checked into the bunkhouse, I wandered down to the dive shop below our accommodation at 09:00 to meet my cross over instructor - Dan Dawson. The rest of the day was used to go through how my new unit worked and…
Plymouth Weekend 14th to 15th June We chartered Red Alert for the weekend, she is an Offshore 125 operated by Danny Daniels. We first dived from her when Danny operated out of Fort Bovisand and had many fabulous, fun weekends and weeks diving from there. Unfortunately the Fort is being turned into posh flats etc and so Danny now operates…
A Day in Swanage Steve Marchant and I set off on an early season trip to Swanage today to dive the Carentan, a 407-ton French submarine chaser, taken over by Royal Navy at fall of France, built 1939. 116ft x 18ft. Armed with 75mm field gun, one 2-pounder, two 20mm Oerlikons, four machine guns and depth charges. Position: 50 34.95N;…