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;…
Diving in the Caymans by Piers Boileau Goad On the 12th February the girls and I all went to the Cayman Islands Turtle Centre which turned out to be an absolutely wonderful day out for the family! After we left we went searching for lunch, lo and behold we drove to a place called Macabuca where my wife suggested we…
Six frost-defying members of Swindon’s Seahorse Dive Club—Bill, Chris, Pete, yours truly, Tom, and Glen—braved the Arctic-esque charms of Somerset’s Vobster Quay last weekend. Armed with drysuits, grit, and a questionable sense of adventure, we plunged into water so cold it made penguins reconsider their life choices (6°C, give or take a shiver). Visibility? A generous 5 metres… if you…