Category: Hardboat Diving

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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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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