Author: David Parker

Plymouth 2025 by Cathy de Lara

Thursday 3rd July “The crew assemble”, otherwise known as doing battle with the M4/M5. The de Lara’s left early and spent the afternoon watching the Otters at the Buckfast otter…
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Farne Islands 2025

Or the “Wot no diving” dive trip By Phil Underwood & Cathy de Lara It was that time of year again, when autumn approaches, leaves turning into winter colours and…
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The day NAS came to visit by Cathy de Lara

Two wonderful ladies from the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) came to the club last week. They talked to us about the NAS, who they are, what they do, and some…
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Antarctica blog part three by Cathy de Lara

Part 3: Antarctic peninsula We finally arrived in Antarctica, a land of mountains, snow, ice, glaciers and giant icebergs. On our first day we saw humpback whales trying to disrupt…
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Antarctica blog part two by Cathy de Lara

Part 2: South Georgia to Elephant Island Our first stop in South Georgia was the old whaling station of Grytviken, here the old buildings and machinery form a whaling museum.…
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Antarctica Diving by Cathy de Lara

Part 1: London to the Falkland Islands Having packed all the dive kit we thought we would need, we found ourselves at Heathrow airport, complete with 80 kg of luggage…
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Annual photo competition 2024 by Cathy de Lara

At the 2024 AGM the hotly contested annual photo competition saw 9 photographers battle it out over 4 different categories for some “amazing” prizes. It was great to see so…
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Guz.Tech Conference 2024 Review by Mark Lewis

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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BSAC Conference 2024, a review by Cathy de Lara

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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Farnes expedition 2024 By Mike Beharrell, photographs courtesy of Alan McElroy

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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