Tag: Newbury Scuba Diving Club

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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St Dunstan and Dolphins, by Ben Mitchell

During the week before this dive, the forecast for this particular dive day had quite a few people excited about its potential. Reports of less than force 1 winds and…
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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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NSDC SCUBA Olympics 2023

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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Diving Pico Island in the Azores by Cathy de lara

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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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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Shipwreck conference 2022

By Cathy de Lara So, Friday evening saw us heading down to Plymouth, we spent just enough time in the hotel to check in and then headed out to meet…
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NSDC Photo Competition Winners 2021

By Cathy de Lara After a slow start, I was wondering if anyone had gone diving and taken any photos this last year! But after a couple of reminders the…
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