Dive Logs

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

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