Dive with friends
We had a great night of fun and entertainment at the club with a race night. The social team worked hard to put together a really good night. We even had a visit from a Right Royal Arab, Sheikh Ur-Money. All the punters were excited for the racing.. Bets were placed, and the
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ECSAC Visited Malta for a week of wreck and reef diving and a lot of beer by the looks of it.. 😉 After a short flight from Manchester (3Hr) we landed in Malta for a weeks diving. As we were all arriving at different times we arranged to meet in the bar “Fat Harry’s” to
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Report by Pat and Phil. ECSAC North Rona and Sula Sgeir Aug 18-25th 2018. We arrived at Scrabster on Saturday morning to load kit into the dive containers. Nick and Claire had driven overnight. Everyone else had chosen the comfy bed option at various points on the A9. The ferry took the long way round
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Alan very kindly delivered a talk night at the club regaling members with stories of the clubs history and events in the early days of scuba diving. Clive also provided the refreshments with Chilli and Tortilla chips as well as Apple Sponge Cake. Feedback has been great including “Alan was very interesting with an
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This is the eighteenth installment in the series of articles from Alan Haywood, one of the clubs early members. You can see the full series of articles here. Chapter 18 – Diving Friends Neville Oldham (you can see a profile of Neville here). Ann and I moved to Macclesfield in 1957. We had spent 7
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Trip Video: Isles of Scilly dive trip report – by Alison Brammer. Sat. 28th July We met at the harbour at Penzance and loaded our kit into the container, parked our cars and then returned to the ferry to board. The crossing was extremely rough with many people suffering sea sickness, our group included. We
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After worryingly misty run down the weather cleared and gave us beautiful clear blue skies. Saturday’s started with a second breakfast for some and flag training for others. The diving began just off St Tudwal’s Island with the ‘Challenger’ which proceeded to live up to its name. In heavy swell, it proved very difficult to
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This is the Seventeenth installment in the series of articles from Alan Haywood, one of the clubs early members. You can see the full series of articles here. In Chapter One I described my first Scuba Dive, in The River Bolin near Manchester airport. The regulator was a single hose with a DIN connector onto
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The club held it’s Caribbean BBQ on 14th July, with a good turnout and superb weather everyone enjoyed a great afternoon and evening with music supplied by a fantastic three piece Jamsalana Steel Band. The club was brilliantly decorated to the theme by the social team who did a superb job of turning the
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A great weekend has had by all. Trip Report by Clive. Trip report; After a lovely drive to Whitby and a few drinks, we stayed at Sneaton Castle, a very impressive place which served great breakfasts. Saturday We met at the marina and launched both ribs. We then went out of the harbour to the
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