{"id":4646,"date":"2018-02-02T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?page_id=4646"},"modified":"2020-03-14T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:19:11","slug":"tales-from-the-blue-stuff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?page_id=4646","title":{"rendered":"My Life in the blue stuff – tales from the early days of scuba diving with ECSAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Alan Heywood <\/strong>       
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\"\"<\/a>Alan is one of the original members of the club from back in the 1960\u2019s.  He has some amazing stories and has dived with and met some of the real superstars of the diving world.  He will be doing a weekly feature for our club newsletter regaling stories from the past, it will also be featured here on the website with more pictures and details.  We start with how Alan was first introduced to diving and his first tentative steps into the water.<\/p>\n

Chapter 1 – How it all started.   <\/a>
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Chapter 2 – Free Diving & Bluebird (working on the world speed record team)!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 3 – <\/strong><\/a>ECSAC, New Friends and Diver Training<\/a>
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Chapter 4 – The Club Room and Air Supplies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 5 – Lamorna Cove – 18 Years of Easter Dives and Shipwreck hunting!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 6 – More Lamorna, A dive to remember. Lloyd Poulton. (The Master Diver and Bridge Climber), John Rhodes and our compressor.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 7 – Devon, D-Day and other debris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 8 – Devon, Freinds, Boats and travel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 9 – Torey Canyon, ECSAC in cleanup and seabird  rescue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 10 – Blue holes of Andros<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 11 – St Kilda, other Islands and Keith Floyd<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 12 – More Islands, please don\u2019t feed the animals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 13 – BSAC above the Blue Stuff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 14 – Things worth another look. (Small party projects)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 15 \u2013 Ireland and shore diving in Israel<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 16 \u2013 More Drive and Dive in Egypt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 17 – Early dive equipment and DIY Efforts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 18 – Diving Friends<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

My Life in the Blue Stuff Live – 16th August<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Alan can be contacted by email – Alan J Heywood <alan@alanjheywood.co.uk<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Alan Heywood         Alan is one of the original members of the club from back in the 1960\u2019s.  He has some amazing stories and has dived with and met some of the real superstars of the diving world.  He will be doing a weekly feature for our club newsletter regaling stories from the past, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4646\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}