COVID restrictions have made club trip organizing slightly more complicated than usual. Determined to get a weekend of diving in, 8 divers set off down to Weymouth, arriving at the comfortable hotel Aqua on Friday evening. Restrictions on the number of divers allowed on hard boats meant changes to the original plan, resulting in the …
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, …
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 …
At the end of October, 11 of us headed off to Malta and Gozo for a long weekend of diving, driving and drinking. It was the perfect way to finish what has been a great year of scuba diving in the club. This was the first time diving abroad for some of the group and it didn’t …
A group of Putney divers went up to the Farne Islands for a weekend of diving! They had an amazing time diving with playful seals in the kelp forests. Great fun, adventure, and food for everyone! [foogallery id=”2091″]
We returned to the Medes Islands in Spain for the second year in a row. Last time we were there our skipper said the best time of year at the Medes is in September, the water is warm and peak holiday season is over. So that’s exactly what we did, we came back in September. …
Keen to get the diving season started early in 2019, six members of Putney Sub Aqua Club, headed up to Vobster Quay bright and early on 17th February for a straightforward (but cold) first dive of the year. At a brisk 5 degrees Celsius, drysuits were the order of the day for all, except Pradeep …