2009 Dive Logs

22nd February 2009 After a week of westerly breezes and no real rain to speak of, the opportunity to attempt a shore dive at Greenend Gully seemed too good to miss. On driving up the track from the new harbour it was soon evident however that a combination of heavy ‘diver’ traffic and winter weather […]

20th Feb 2009 The original plan for Saturday had been to conduct some dive leader training at St Abbs and given that our RHIBS were in for engine repairs and service this left three options for diving: none (or a muddy puddle somewhere inland), shore diving or last minute hardboat. Up until relatively recently there

15th February 2009 It is not often that one gets the chance to ‘test dive’ a new dive boat! This Sunday however, just such an opportunity arose. The M/V Scimitar is a Blyth 33′ catamaran that is currently in the process of being fitted out to meet the demanding needs of the dive charter business.

February 2009 by Gordon Lambert Following the previous branch Ice dive to Cawfields Quarry (see Ice Breaker January) we couldn’t miss the chance to do it all again. Second branch dive of the year and we are back under ice. In the week which saw most of the country ground to a halt with heavy

 January 2009 First member of Tyneside 114 to dive this year was Gordon Lambert who managed to spend the first minutes of 2009 under the surface of Wastwater celebrating the New Year. The Hunts also managed some New Year diving during a ‘dive’ break up at Oban. For the first ‘official’ club dive however, we