Trip Reports

Shetland – 23rd – 30th August 2025 We met at the terminal in Aberdeen, on Saturday afternoon to catch the overnight ferry to Lerwick.  The dive container and baggage trolley were loaded, and we made our way onto the ferry to drop overnight bags in pre-booked cabins, before meeting up in the lounge. The crossing […]

Isle of Man – 7th – 12th August 2025 Thursday the 7th of August Having never visited the Isle of Man before, we arranged to catch an early morning ferry over and an afternoon ferry back. This would top and tail our dive trip with two extra days for sightseeing. Joining Dave and me in

Kinlochbervie – 27th July – 2nd August 2025 An exciting if long journey lay ahead of us to get to KLB, some of us stopped over in Perth on the Saturday night to break the long journey up and arrived feeling ready to get settled into the lovely lodge house in Sheigra. Once settled in,

Bridlington – 14th – 16th August 2025 Phil prepped and checked Top Cat during the week before we towed it on Friday evening for Bridlington. We met up with Anna and Mark in the Lobster Pot bar to firm up the dive plan for Saturday. Plan A was to dive LV 83, however the forecast

Anglesey Dive / Snorkel & BBQ Weekend – 2nd – 3rd August 2025 The aim of this weekend was to provide a Club diving and snorkeling trip, to give newer members experience of the sea and RHIB diving, and to provide a BBQ and social evening for all members. There was a lot of interest

Eyemouth Dive Weekend – 28th – 29th June 2025 Departing to make the journey up to Eyemouth on the Friday we all had varying degrees of traffic congestion but by late evening we were all present in our lovely spacious static caravans on the Eyemouth park so close to where the boat was moored. Saturday

Dieppe Wrecks Dive Trip – 15th – 19th June 2025 The trip was a joint expedition with ECSAC and St Ives (Cambs) SAC to dive the usually remote wrecks out of Dieppe France. There were four of us from ECSAC, Steve Jan, Simon and Clare, and three from SISAC; Joe Paul and Dan. Three others

Llyn Peninsula and Anglesey Dive Weekend – 20th – 22nd June 2025 Top Cat and Cheshire Cat were prepped and checked mid-week ready for towing. The journey down was smooth despite a contraflow through the Conwy tunnel. Nikki had booked accommodation for six near Caernarfon while Phil and I stayed on Anglesey. On Saturday morning

Anglesey Bank Holiday Weekend – 3rd – 5th May 2025 A big thank you to Phil, Dave and Steve for ensuring that the repairs to  Top Cat‘s trailer were all sorted prior to this trip. We got the boat prepped and set off from Macclesfield to Anglesey for a weekend of diving in superb weather.

Gallipoli, Turkey – 26th April – 3rd May 2025 Five of us met at Manchester airport early on Saturday morning to catch our flight to Istanbul with Turkish Airlines (we met Paul at Istanbul airport as he had gone out earlier for a holiday). The airport is huge and it took some time to get