The dive trip to the Isle of Wight started off well; we made the short drive down to Southsea near Portsmouth early on Saturday morning where we met our skipper Roy on the boat WightDiver. The weather was fantastic, the sky was clear and the sea was calm. However, Roy informed us that the good …
Putney BSAC has not had the best luck with UK weather in 2012. Luckily for some of us, Philippa organised a dive trip to Malta where we were treated to four days of brilliant sunshine and mill pond calm seas. A dive trip doesn’t get much better than a daily routine of wake up, do …
First of all, a huge thank you to the trip organiser, Flo. Everything under her control went amazingly smoothly; whilst the weather may have played havoc with the plan (and the vis), we can all learn something from her magnificent organisational skills! Having all safely made it to Ilfracombe on Friday evening, through incessant rain, …
The London International Dive Show was held on on 31st March 2012, as always, Putney BSAC had a great showing there and our training officer Steve Gibbons won a BSAC 2011 Branch Volunteer of the Year award for the phenomenal amount of time and effort he puts into training and running of the club in …
This year’s trip to the Farnes Islands didn’t get off to the greatest start. The forecast earlier in the week was for winds of up to 55mph and after the captain cancelled our first day of diving things weren’t looking good. Was this to be yet another trip cancelled in 2011 due to high winds? …
Although it started all far more adventurous: some of you may be aware of the troubles of almost all participants booked on the trip: one moving to land of dreams, another getting married, the rest of us getting the week of the trip wrong and at the end the heroic effort of Steve getting hold …
Well—————where do I start. Firstly……. A little background on Truk….Chuuk. Truk was a major Japanese logistical base as well as the operating “home” base for the Imperial Japanese Navy’s s Combined Fleet. Some have described it as the Japanese equivalent of the US Navy’s combined fleet at PearlHarbour. The atoll was the only major Japanese …