It was lovely catching up with Johno and Cathy at Guz.Tech on Saturday, until Johno announced, “Hey Mark, can you write a piece for the club’s blog for this weekend?”…
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Early Saturday morning six Newbury Scuba Diving Club members braved the torrential rain, floods and the M40 to drive to Birmingham for the BSAC conference. First up was Sophie R…
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Nine intrepid members of Newbury Scuba Diving Club braved the horrors of the M1 heading North to sample the underwater delights of Northumberland’s Farne Islands in September. The divers, with…
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Rainbow Warrior Wreck On day 3 we made a slightly earlier start, meeting at the dive shop and taken by mini bus with dive kit in a trailer for a…
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Sally and I decided to get away for the winter and went on a 4 week holiday to New Zealand. We flew from Heathrow to Singapore (14 hrs) and after…
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Where in the world can you find intact, upright wooden shipwrecks? Ships that still have their bells, steering wheels and rigging? Ships that are not only in diveable depths but…
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Exhausting, but great fun are probably the best words to describe participating in the 2023 NSDC SCUBA Olympics. This year three teams battled to win the coveted title of SCUBA…
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Every year at NSDC’s AGM I hold a photo competition for all those photographs we have been busily taking throughout the year, it’s a great opportunity to see where people…
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We decided we needed a break, but didn’t want to travel long haul, we wanted interesting diving but couldn’t find a Red Sea liveaboard that did what we wanted to…
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MS Zenobia was a Swedish-built Challenger-class RO-RO ferry launched in 1979 that capsizedand sank on her maiden voyage in 1980. Quite simply, it’s a massive wreck lying on her port…
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