{"id":2288,"date":"2017-06-30T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2018-03-10T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T12:51:09","slug":"spain-25-30-june-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Spain 25-30 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><strong>Trip Report by Kevin Phillips<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1054\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1054\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1054 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image010-300x222.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image010-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image010.png 320w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\"><\/a> The Spain trip was a great success, with a week of safe, spectacular diving completed.&nbsp; We managed to dive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2294 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4.png 1904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>marine reserve on the Medes Islands as well as exploring the coastline both north and south of the Bay of Roses (Pronounced Ross-Ass). We also found a new dive site off the Island of Maza de Oro which was named Loz\u2019s Cave to recognise Loz\u2019s discovery of the superb spot. &nbsp;It is an amazing small swimthough festooned with fish, morays, and loads of life, as well as a family of large Grouper in the small cave.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is to be forever known as Loz\u2019s Cave and has been saved in the plotter on the boat so others can share our discovery.&nbsp; As well as this we explored a number of caverns and caves, even extending the known extremities of the Cathedral Cave by laying in 140 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1057\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1057\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1057 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image006-300x144.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image006-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image006.png 546w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\"><\/a>meters of line<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1056\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1056\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1056 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image017-282x300.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image017-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image017.png 444w\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\"><\/a>.&nbsp; We also located a nearby seemingly unexplored cave (as it was not on the dive site list) and this would be worth another visit with a longer cave reel to explore its depths&nbsp;<i>(note all cave dives were conducted safely with qualified divers and redundant gas supply and lines laid).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the video of the trip below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NSqhtWL1KIk?feature=oembed\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain2-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain3-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Spain4-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trip Report by Kevin Phillips The Spain trip was a great success, with a week of safe, spectacular diving completed.&nbsp; We managed to dive the marine reserve on the Medes Islands as well as exploring the coastline both north and south of the Bay of Roses (Pronounced Ross-Ass). We also found a new dive site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecsac.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}