After an early start to beat the crowds to the car park on the hottest day of the year so far both boats were launched for a dive on the Chasms. The bright sun and good visibility made for excellent diving with Edible & Spider Crab, Lobster, Octopus, Sea Squirts, Nudibranch and much more being spotted. […]

A number of blearily eyed divers assembled a mountain of kit and loaded Top Cat in Rhoscolyn Car Park at 06:30 am before launching and departing shortly after 07:00 am for the 12 mile journey to dive the Roanoak, an American supply ship torpedoed in 1945. Despite a challenging dive to 49m in extremely dark

Our first trip of 2013 in early June was focused in the Lake District as we were originally intending to dive at Birks Bridge. However, following further study of some of the wild swimming publications we decided on planning a dive to Peel Island in Coniston water (aka Wild cat island from Swallows and Amazons).

We had an excellent trip to the Farnes to dive with one of the UKs largest seal colonies. The Farnes are a group of Islands situated off the Northumberland Coast famous for their colonies of birds and diver friendly seals and situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The waters are rich in sea

We dived with Lochaline Boat Charters but stayed on Mull at Salen Pier House, a rather luxurious detached house with its own pier about 10 minutes drive from the ferry terminal at Craignure. Walking 50 metres from the house to the pier to be picked up between 9 and 10 am each morning gave each

Fifteen intrepid ECSAC divers ventured out on a beautifully sunny Bank Holiday weekend to dive around Anglesey with the objective of diving some of the less dived wrecks.  Sadly we found out why they are less dived as the wind picked up to Force 4/5 (occasionally 6) and we were unable to get far enough offshore

Phil Darlington organised a trip in the new club boat ‘Top Cat’ to dive Carreg Allen, to the east of Dulas Island on the eastern side of Anglesey.  We launched the boats from Traeth Bychan beach and the diving was good, with visibility about 4-5m (although the boat launch on the very soft sand was

Easter had us visiting our regular dive sites around Rhoscolyn, Anglesey. On Good Friday and Saturday we dived out of Rhoscolyn with a good number of members, but unfortunately the weather turned and we dived Holyhead harbour on Easter Sunday. The harbour area near the museum has the only site containing Sea Pens in Wales,

This was our first sea dive of the season and arranged at the last minute. We had brilliant blue skies, with calm seas, although it was a bit chilly 😉  We managed to do two dives out of Rhoscolyn around the beacons. Visibility was okay but the dives were kept short due to the cold