{"id":13434,"date":"2024-12-11T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?p=13434"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:24:03","slug":"shetland-live-aboard-24th-29th-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?p=13434","title":{"rendered":"Shetland Live aboard – 24th – 29th August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Shetland Live Aboard: 24th - 29th August 2025<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pat and Phil are running a trip to Shetland to dive a mixture of scenic sites and wrecks. This is some of the best diving in the UK in a stunning, remote location. The viz is excellent and the marine life abundant and diverse. The dives are in the 28m -45m range.<\/span><\/p>

We will be liveaboard with<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>skipper Bob Anderson on The <\/span>Clasina<\/span>—-<\/span>spacious deck, and storage, under cover kitting up area, dive lift, on board compressor, warm cabin, twin bunk rooms, 3 shower rooms, 3 meals per day,\u00a0bedding provided. Crew on deck to help with kitting up etc.\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.clasina.co.uk\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>

The trip is fully catered except for the Friday evening when we eat on the overnight ferry to Aberdeen, 6 days diving, 2 dives per day, air included. Nitrox is available. Helium on request.<\/span><\/p>

Pick up and drop off point, Lerwick.\u00a0 <\/span>Ferry<\/span>\u00a0overnight from Aberdeen to Lerwick on Saturday 23<\/span>rd<\/span>\u00a0August 2025. We leave cars on the mainland and use dive containers to take kit onto and off the ferry.\u00a0 We taxi the kit to the <\/span>Clasina<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>Return is the overnight ferry on Friday 29<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0August 2025.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Qualification<\/span><\/strong>: Dive Leader: you must be confident with depth, current and swell and be proficient with DSMB deployment.<\/span><\/p>

Cost:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a315,000 to charter the boat\u00a0<\/span>= \u00a31250pp<\/span>. (We receive a 10% discount if we fill all 12 spaces) Deposit to secure your place 25%\u00a0<\/span>= \u00a3312.50pp<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>

Balance due July 2025<\/span><\/p>

Once you have paid your deposit you are committed to finding a replacement or paying the full amount if you cannot go. Insurance is a good idea.<\/span><\/p>

Extra costs<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

  • return overnight ferry plus a cabin and meal from Aberdeen\/Lerwick.<\/span><\/li>
  • Car parking for the week.<\/span><\/li>
  • Taxi to and from Lerwick harbour to Shetland ferry terminal.<\/span><\/li>
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    Shetland Live Aboard: 24th – 29th August 2025 Pat and Phil are running a trip to Shetland to dive a mixture of scenic sites and wrecks. This is some of the best diving in the UK in a stunning, remote location. The viz is excellent and the marine life abundant and diverse. The dives are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","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":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13434"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13444,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions\/13444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}