2010 Dive Logs

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 […]

17th October 2010 Written by Andy Hunt Photography by Richard Booth After a failed attempt to get out into the sea on Saturday we resorted to plan B for Sunday.  The main RHIB was already being used for a boat handling course and so we chartered Lazy G Diver at St Abbs for a dive

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

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

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

21st August 2010 by Richard Booth With all dive kit safely loaded aboard the Lazy G charter boat it was full steam ahead up the coast to the first selected dive site of the day, Branders point. This particular site is situated further up the coast past Petticowick, so is not a regular destination for

31st July 2010 by Richard Booth Survey work continues with the first dives of the day being conducted on the North East side of the reef. In 1970 it was in this area that Bill Smith had located a non ferrous pulley wheel from an old ship wreck. The area is heavily covered in kelp,

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

11th July 2010 The original plan had been to dive the wreck of the Buka, but driving along the seafront at Beadnel it was all too obvious from 2222the extent of the whitecaps out in the distant bay, that the strong offshore wind had literally blown this plan away. Assembling in the car park a

6th July 2010 With the good weather holding and a calm sea, things were looking very promising for a good dive off the Tyne. The usual crowd of suspects turned out at St Peters Quay and Milldam to board the MV Spellbinder. With no traffic planned to enter or leave the Tyne, Alan received the

3rd July 2010 The advent of larger more comfortable RIB’s often funded courtesy of the Lottery fund appears to have led to the virtual demise of the use of small inflatable boats for diving, once the common stay of most club ‘boat’ diving. Small inflatable RIBs do however still offer a number of positive advantages

27th June 2010 The aim of the day’s diving was to explore a cannon site off the Farne Islands . Usually this site is best dived on slack water. With an ebbing tide decreasing at the approach of slack water, Richard and John entered the water first and explored the NE area of the reef.

12th-13th June 2010 by Richard Booth After the clubs earlier successful trip to Loch Long in April of this year it was time to venture a little further North to explore the rich green waters of Loch Fyne. This time however the logistics of the trip were a little more complicated in that we decided

June 2010 by Richard Booth The forecast had deteriorated over the previous with the result that the planned club dive out to the Farnes was going to be a non starter. Instead, the Diving Officer reorganised the weekend‘s dive programme to a club dive down at Ellerton for those individuals who were still desperate to

22nd-23rd  May 2010 First dive of the day was a drift dive close to the West Hurkur. Mark dropped everyone close to the cliffs with the instruction to look for the submarine gully’s running out to shore. The tide was running but we quickly found and took shelter in the main gully and worked our

May 2010 by Richard Booth On previous dive trips to the Maldives I have always gone for the liveaboard. This time however with a non-diving partner, Belinda, we decided to try the resort option. After careful research and advice we settled on the resort of Filitheyo, complete with luxury spa and dive centre! Flying from

15th May 2010 by Richard Booth Big Spring tides made for a slightly tricky low water launch from Seahouses harbour with the end of the concrete slipway left high and dry out of the water! Despite the challenge of negotiating a launch across the mud we soon had the club RIB Seawitch afloat in what

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