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Loch Fyne

16th-17th April 2011 After last years successful club trips to Loch Long and Fyne, it was clear that demand for places on this years trip was likely to be high; This proved to be the case with demand exceeding the 12 places in the two booked static caravans with the excess attendee’s being accommodated in …

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Dunbar

10th April 2011 Where to go and dive somewhere different? With Brown’s Bay, St Mary’s island, Beadnel and St Abbs shore dive sites to choose from, we are quite fortunate in the range of good shore dive sites available to Tyneside 114 members. Dunbar, a historic port town in the Borders has a reputation for …

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Farne Islands

5th March 2011 Too warm for a wolly hat??  It was only as the lines were being cast off that I realised that I had carelessly left my woolly hat in the car. ‘’Don’t worry, its too warm for a woolly hat” reassured the DO, Andy Hunt. True, in the relative shelter of Seahouses harbour …

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The Full-Face mask experience, 31st January & 7th February 2011

Read about us on the BSAC Website Not strictly a course report as such but instead an account of two recent club pool nights at which members had the opportunity to experience using a range of full-face masks. Normally associated with commercial rather than sport diving, full-face masks have a number of advantages when diving …

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Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Course, January 2011

An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is a potential life saving machine which in certain circumstances can literary bring the dead back to life. The Club’s Diving Officer, Andy Hunt, perhaps mindful of an increasing number of members aged over 50, decided that this might an interesting but potentially life saving course to organise for the …

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Tenerife

December 2010 by Nicola Faulks Where to go on holiday? The PFO was closed in August, the consultant has given me the ok to dive, so looking for somewhere where we have lots of options, so we can dive alternate days – to ease me back in to the way of things. I know: Tenerife …

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Beamish Hall: A Winter’s Tale, Tyneside 114 Annual Dinner, 23rd November 2010

This year’s annual dinner took place in the grand surroundings of Beamish Hall. Twenty two club members and family assembled for drinks prior to sitting down to the three-course dinner. Dress was formal black tie. The food proved to be of a high standard. After dinner entertainment was provided by Richard Booth who gave an …

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Loch Leven

17th September 2010 Travelling back from the club’s expedition trip to Glenuig, the Hunts and Richard Booth could not resist the temptation to stop en-route home to complete a shore dive in Loch Leven. Belinda and Angus provided shore cover as the intrepid trio kitted up prior to making the perilous dash across the busy …

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Glenuig Expedition

12th – 16th September 2010 by Richard Booth Expedition organiser Andy Hunt selected the small but picturesque village of Glenuig as the expedition base. It has the added advantage of a concrete slip as well as a small relatively sheltered bay in all but the severest of weather. There are a number of cottages available …

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Pipers Gut Drift Dive… and Discovery of Another Mystery Cannon Site

4th September 2010 by Richard Booth With both the clubs RIB’s successfully launched from Seahouses, we headed out towards the Farne Islands . The weather forecast was for increasing South Easterly breeze, potentially ruling out the majority of the better known dive sites around the Farnes. Trip organiser Andy Hunt opted for a drift dive …

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HMS Unity

30th July 2010 by Andy Hunt HMS Unity was a Royal Navy U-class submarine that was lost after a collision with the Norwegian ship Atle Jari in poor visibility on the 29 th April 1940. Lieutenant John Low and able Seaman Henry Miller sacrificed themselves to save the crew by remaining behind in the flooded …

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