April 2010 by Andy and Fiona Hunt Armed with a copy of Gordon Ridley’s book Dive North West Scotland and Anita Sherwood’s “100 best UK shore dives”, coupled with some knowledge from previous trips, we set off after the Loch Long club trip and carried on driving and diving further north. We have done this

3rd April 2010 With a dodgy weather forecast and the news that Capenwrays latest attraction was now in place a select group of Tyneside 114 divers headed across the Pennines to experience the quarry’s latest attraction, a sunken passenger plane! We expected to find a crowded car park and were somewhat surprised to find that

April 2010 I first came across the diving in Loch Long after a club trip to St Abbs with Durham City Divers last May was faced with the prospect of a blown out weekend with no diving available in the sea due to the inclement weather and rough sea conditions. In desperation we made the

January 2010 Despite the last month of freezing weather a few hardy souls ventured down the A1(M) to enjoy the delights of Ellerton Lake. Assembling in the car park, we awaited the arrival of Mr Hunt. Where was he at the appointed time? A quick phone call established that his absence was due to a

27 Sep 2009 The original plan had been to head out of Beadnell for the wreck site of the Somali but a combination of a very stiff westerly breeze and a few reliability issues with the RIB electronics soon put paid to this plan. Instead, after a quick revision of plan, we headed down the

13th Sept 2009 by Richard Booth With a dull overcast day and a brisk onshore breeze our initial plans to visit some of the more out lying dive sites off the Farne Islands had to be changed, as we headed out in the club RIB powering up and over the short chop. After a rapid

12th September 2009 With a beautiful blue sky, a calm sea and a favourable flooding neap tide it was an ideal day for an early morning shore dive in Browns Bay. We arrived at 7:45 AM to find that numerous other North East divers had had exactly the same idea as us. Taking considerable care

31st August 2009 Launching the club’s RIB from the public slip at Berwick, we headed rather gingerly down the harbour channel before opening up the throttle and heading south down towards the distant silhouette of Holy Island . Our aim, to explore a number of dive sites that lay to the north of the island.

29 Aug 2009 With a light offshore breeze and a blue sky, things were looking up for a good days diving. Members of Tyneside and Durham City diving clubs loaded their kit aboard the Aquanaut, Eyemouth Sub Aqua clubs venerable old dive boat. From Eyemouth harbour it was a gentle journey out and down the

25th August 2009 The plan was to dive on the wreck of the Chandris. Alan Lopez, skipper of the M/V Spellbinder, on the previous weekend had dropped a group onto a bit of wreckage where all manner of interesting objects had apparently been seen. His aim was to drop us off on the same area

22nd August 2009 On arrival at Wuddy Rocks it was very clear that we were in for a good days diving on account of the exceptional underwater visibility that was all too evident from simply looking over the side of the boat. Wuddy Rocks is a site situated not far from the entrance to St

Written by Andy Hunt Photography by Andy Hunt and Nic Faulkes After an excellent expedition the previous year which was organised by Dave Robson, it was decided to go again, to do dive some of the better sites we’d done last year, plus explore some new ones. The final expedition team comprised many members from

11th Aug 2009 Instead of the usual Tuesday night boats dive, a group of Tyneside members assembled on the road above Browns Bay before making the long descent down the steep path to the rocks beside the old swimming pool. From here it is a relatively simple entrance point into the water. When no swell

8th August 2009 With big spring tides, light SW winds and virtually no swell, we headed out to the Farnes with high expectations of some good diving. The clear water at Seahouses slip added to this expectation. Out at the Farnes and with a strong ebb tide running, we took shelter from the current on

2nd August 2009 With a brisk SW breeze and bright sunshine, club members enjoyed two separate organised dives this Sunday. One group, Mike, Maurice, Simon and Nicola opted for a shore dive off Howick. This exercise involved something of a hike carrying their dive equipment down to the shoreline, but had the advantage of a

01 Aug 2009 By Richard Booth With a sizable southerly swell running up the coast, any plans to dive to dive Bell rock was clearly a non starter. Instead a mixed group of divers from Tyneside 114, Bishop Auckland and Durham City divers assembled on the pontoons at Eyemouth harbour and loaded their kit aboard

25th July 2009 By Richard Booth Several years ago, Tyneside 114 use to dive its own secret wreck. Originally, Dave Simpson had discovered the site, whilst he was completing survey work for one of the local water companies. Trips were made in secret, to avoid other divers finding this wreck. Situated in 30 metres of

5th July 2009 by Richard Booth Conditions came together this weekend to dive one of the Farne islands most spectacular dives, Whirl Rocks. Situated some 200 metres east of the Knivestone reef, Whirl Rocks consists of a series of underwater pinnacles that rise up from 30 metres to within a few metres of the surface.

30th June 2009 By Richard Booth With many of the regular Tuesday night divers recovering from the weekend trip to Mull, numbers were down for this Tuesdays dive. In the end 7 turned up to be greeted by a smooth sea and slack water! In view of the smaller group, the decision was made to