Trip Reports

SOUTH SHIELDS 14TH – 16TH AUGUST 2020 Nine divers journeyed north on Friday evening, some to stay at The Little Haven Hotel and others at a nearby B&B. Tim and Phil had prepped and checked the boats the previous Wednesday evening. We launched at 8am from the public concrete slip adjacent to the hotel. Sat

BRIDLINGTON 31ST JULY – 2ND AUGUST 2020 Top Cat and the trailer were prepped and checked before heading to Bridlington on Friday evening. The journey was incident free although we were treated to a spectacular electrical storm for the final hour of it. Sat. 1st Aug: An early start and a tractor launch courtesy of the

We drove to Heathrow  on Thurs to travel overnight to Johannesburg, spent Friday catching up on sleep and visiting The Apartheid Museum before catching the Saturday flight to St Helena, famous for housing the exiled Napoleon after Waterloo and for its importance to The East India Company  trading spices and slaves.  Our accommodation was a

Trip Report – by Vesta A team of ECSAC explorers joined Wreckspeditions aboard the Starfish Enterprise this weekend for what promised to be a great weekends diving. And it delivered. To quote Fred “the best skipper he’s ever had!”. The gang arrived on Friday night and settled in to the accommodation with a few beers.  Ropes

A bunch of daring ECSAC explorers have headed to the farnes. To be chewed on by Sea puppies. The trip was looking questionable based on the weather but thankfully the Farnes were in the eye of the storm and the weather was looking amazing! Thanks to Vesta for the photos below.  

Report  by Pat Spencer  Tyneside 23-26th August 2019 Top Cat was prepped and checked at home during the week before it was towed on Friday evening to South Shields. The only incident on the way there was a blow out on the nearside tyre of the trailer which Phil fixed in twenty minutes. I watched

The ECSAC Team went back up to Loch Striven to complete a project to photograph the bombs in situ and produce 3D Photogrammetry Models of at least one of them. (some images (C) Alex Tasker). Thanks also to Sue Wainwright and Vesta Charlesworth for other photos) Early efforts were looking good with the initial model

Scapa 100th Anniversary Trip – June 2019 Watch the video here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxzqtrXq4A The 100th Anniversary of the scuttling of the fleet in Scapa Flow took place last week.  ECSAC was there and dived the High Seas Fleet in style on our club RIBs.  Alison and Loz wrote this trip report. The intrepid boat crew

Top Cat was repaired, prepped and checked at home during the week before it was towed on Friday evening to Bridlington. Phil’s meticulous research, organisation and attention to detail had the group in the hotel car park on Saturday morning at 6am ready to drive to Hornsea boat yard. The chances to dive the lightship

Trip Report by Pat Spencer. We caught the overnight Liverpool to Belfast ferry on Friday evening, disembarked Saturday at 6.30am, drove to Ballycastle, had breakfast in The Bay Café, kitted up and were ready for our first dive on the North Wall and Arch, on Rathlin Island at 11.30am. The north wall was stunning– a