Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 11:08
I'd booked Friday off work and managed to pick up a space on Divetime. It's a large Cat and there were only 8 of us on board, so there was plenty of room. Sea conditions were nice and flat, partcularly considering the time of year. The first dive was on the M2, which was a Royal Navy submarine that sank in 1925 with the loss of all hands.
Submitted by admin on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 20:37
This weekend was the London Dive Show. I've not been in a while and I was busy on Saturday, so went up on the Sunday. My first impression was how quiet it was when I arrived. The days of everyone rushing to dive shows to get deals on equipment seem to have long gone, killed off by the internet. I didn't really have anything I wanted to buy and just browsed the booths of the mainly foreign dive destinations. There were a lot from Indonesia this year, and somewhat closer to home, Ocean Addicts caught my eye.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 13:37
I got an email from Dave saying that there was space on Dive 125 to do the War Monarch on 11th March.
Load time was a thoroughly respectable 10:45, so I decided I was in. The name was unfamiliar to me, but I had dived it before.
For a long time, the wreck had been thought to be the Rydal Hall, but in August 2011, Dave and Sylvia discovered the letters
"WAR MON" on the bow, identifying it once and for all. The Rydal Hall is thought to be the unknown wreck a bit further out, but
it's in the shipping lanes.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 13:59
We're diving with Woody on RW Two over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Thankfully, the Olympics will all be over by then. Depth will be 45m max. Cost will be £150 for the three days.
5 spaces.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 13:58
We're diving with Woody on RW Two. Depth will be 60m max as we're planning to do the Meknes on the Saturday and the LST we didn't do last year on the Sunday. Ropes off for the Saturday will be 11:00. Please be there at least 30 mins before as we won't wait. Ropes off on the Sunday should be a similar time. Cost will be £100 for the two days.
1 space, could squeeze on 2 for a buddy pair.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 13:57
Thanks to the Queen's Jubilee, there's a 4 day bank holiday weekend in June. So we're going diving with Wrighty on Seeker for the 4 days. The maximum depth will be 45m, and I definitely want to do the Skaala again, possibly the Orcis and/or the Newholme.
The boat costs £475 a day, so I'm aiming for 10 people on each day, though it is licensed for 12. I have split the days for people can't do all 4.
Spaces.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 13:21
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
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| Temp/F | 85 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 86 | 85 | 85 | 85 | 85 | 85 | 85 |
| Sunshine/hours | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| Rain/inches | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 00:07
I was doing a 2 week tour of southern India and wanted to finish off with a week in the Maldives. I looked on www.travelrepublic.co.uk and one island was much cheaper than most of the alternatives. Summer Island Village was £800 for one week all-inclusive. I'd been there before back in 1999, and written this report. The price didn't include boat transfers from the airport to the island. They certainly clawed back some money on them. They charged £135.
