Bringing the fun back. There can be no denying the last few months have been a tester for most people. The lifestyle we have all had to adopt has been alien to everyone bar the odd hermit. A return of some of the pleasures of […]

Return to a Better Normal.           Most of us are shaking off the cobwebs after an unprecedented period of hibernation and are hoping to return to a normal life. The latest awful trend phrase "New Normal" springs to mind, yuk!         […]

Don`t miss it untill it`s gone.                                                            Came to mind wandering around a local shopping centre, a cafe that has been around for ever, slightly care worn and homely, always full of pensioners it seemed, run by a husband and wife team. This time it`s […]

I used to dive but gave up............A statement we hear too often. So why and what do we do about it? Seems too simplistic to say that divers who are active don`t tend to drop out. One of the main reasons divers give for dropping […]

Can Scuba effect mental wellbeing? Bit of a buzz about mental health awareness and mental wellbeing at the moment. All to the good that these, often hidden, issues are being aired and brought out into the open rather than something to be looked at as […]

Farne Islands October 2019. Always a risk diving around the UK at the latter stages of the year. We always liase with the skippers, and William Shiels assured us that a favourable forcast was in the offing. The journey up to Northumbria is usually nothing […]

Best of the Red Sea Red Sea diving never disappoints, fact! Our latest visit took in the deep South with standout reefs Elphinstone, Rocky Island, Zabagad and Fury Shoals. Plenty of other random beauties too made for an awesome quality week. Have a look at […]

Lochaline Dive trip, August 2019. Our annual jaunt to dive with Lochaline Charters around the Sound of Mull lived up to every expectation. Only disappointment was the ban on scallop hunting which normally provides us with a sumptious meal on one of the evenings. Abs […]

I Want To Be An Instructor! A refrain we hear fairly often. Watching good instructors work, it is hardly surprising when anyone want`s to emulate them. Our latest Instructor success story has an extra caveat, hardly any time due to working two jobs. A major […]

A dive club is a dive club, right? You would think!                                  Often, a bit like getting married, you find out the monster within once it`s too late. One of the most important features of any dive club is that it offers lots of chances to […]