Nick our Boat Officer has been desperate to get the RIB out after the lockdown, so with beautiful weather forecast (and after a few pints in the pub) we hatched a plan to take the Putney SAC RIB down to Newhaven to dive the SS City of Brisbane. The City of Brisbane was torpedoed by UB-57 in …
The trip that wasn’t to be… Originally planned for the 18th/19th April, Putney’s trip with Divers Down in Swanage was pushed back to the 1st/2nd August due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However it was definitely worth the wait! The weather was glorious with water temperatures of 18°C and surface conditions calm and sunny. The visibility …
Desperate to get back in the sea Putney BSAC finally made it out as a club. Keeping covid secure and making sure we stayed aware, we opted for a shore dive as our first outing. Shallow but pleasant, the bimble along East Beach near the lifeboat station reminded everyone what it felt like to damp, …
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and lock-down, Putney BSAC has remained active in the last couple of months. During difficult situations, people rally round and this has definitely been the case for us with members giving up their time to provide talks and lectures via Zoom. We have finished off sports diver and dive leader theory …
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In mid March we held our annual pool games. Originally set for a huge turnout, the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic meant we unfortunately had lower numbers on the night. We chose to still go ahead which was the best decision considering we had a great night and went into lock-down two weeks later. …
25th of Feb was a day that opened the secret chamber in the scuba diving life of 7 of our club members. Gill and Nick from Clidive kindly organised a taster for a closed circuit rebreather in our own Putney leisure center pool. After setting up 2 shiny AP Evolution beauties and receiving short a introduction …
John, a previous member of Putney BSAC, and active personality in the the diving world, has sadly passed away at the age of 76. https://www.bsac.com/news-and-blog/tributes-are-pouring-in-for-dr-john-bevan/
On 26th January we held our annual oxygen administration course at the Hurlingham Yacht Club. There was a good turn out of 5 instructors and 10 trainees. Over a mixture of practical and theory sessions we covered basic life support, casualty assessment, oxygen administration and diving incidents. Though we hope never to have to use these …
The club went out for the first 2 dives of 2020! After a very early start, 9 divers made it to Vobster Quay for a cold winter day of diving. The sun was out and even though it was frosty, everyone seemed very happy with how the day turned out. The 8+ meter visibility was …
Late November saw five club members head off for a weekend trip to a lesser-known diving location; namely Belgium. Our destination was the custom-built Nemo 33 diving facility, an indoor pool, as the name suggests, some 33 meters deep. Our first choice of transport was the Eurostar to Brussels, but tracks were up …