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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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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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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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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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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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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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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