Yearly Archives: 2012

What a lovely orange van

At last, a  new van for Clidive. Ex RAC, Transit T330 with a 2.4 engine. Three seats in the front, two compartments in the back – and a side door! And orange will go really well with either the blue

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Diving with seals at Lundy

A wet weekend in late April saw 12 Clidivers head for Ilfracombe and Lundy island in search of seals.   The first morning, as we loaded the boat in Ilfracombe harbour, the skipper warned us that the crossing might be

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May BH in Plymouth

Excellent time in Plymouth this weekend diving the JEL, Eddystone Anchor Alley, the Persier, Hilsea Point, the Rosehill, the Scylla, Eddystome East Pinnacle, the Elk and Elk Reef. The poor old James Egan Lane has taken a battering over the

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Training at Gildy in April – mad fools!

3.5 months after the trainees started ocean diver, I could no longer hold them back anymore – they were eager to go to open water. I tried to persuade them that it was much warmer in Spain or Gozo, but

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Ice Diving In Sweden

4 hardy (or is that foolhardy) souls braved the Scandinavian winter to have a go at ice diving this winter. Unfortunatley, it was unseasonably warm and so the ice was too thin to dive in through the ice-hole. (snigger). But

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