Category: Hardboat Diving

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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Diving New Zealand (North Island) – January 2024 by Alan McElroy – Part Two

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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Diving New Zealand (North Island) – January 2024 by Alan McElroy – Part One

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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Diving the Great Lakes by Cathy de Lara

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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Diving the MS Zenobia by Andy Pearce

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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Seasearch Survey May 2022

By Matt Walters In 2019 some of us in the South and West Wales Seasearch group were ready to make the step up to Surveyor level. These surveys are more…
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Maldives 2022 by Richard and Sarah Deal

We recently returned from the Maldives with a tour that included a week liveaboard and a week on an atoll with its own home reef. The whole trip was organised…
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Antigua 2021

By Sarah and Richard Deal We travelled out in the last week of November, gaining a most welcome 20 degrees in the process. The diving was all from a hardboat,…
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Malta 2021

Sarah and Richard Deal enjoy the delights of a classic warm water diving destination Sarah and Richard enjoyed a great week’s diving in Malta with Maltaqua, a BSAC dive centre…
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NSDC Red Sea Adventure 2019

Saturday 26th October 2019 dawned a typical grey, damp and breezy Autumn morning in the UK, but this did not dampen the spirits of the 18 members (including a few…
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