For most of us, our first tentative fin kicks in ‘open water’ are a dim distant memory. I asked some of this year’s trainees to remind us what it was like. Ocean Diver On the train down to Portland it…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Pleasure in Portland, 1/2 October
By Peter Martin If you are new to RIB diving – that’s diving off a rigid inflatable boat, of which CLIDIVE owns two, pragmatically named ‘Yellow’ and ‘Blue’ – you could do worse than starting in Portland. The pontoon from…
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The Azores – 17-24 Sept 2016
Words by Jonathan Perlmutter; Pics by Simon de Lotz Attendees: GB, JS, EP, SE, NT, SdL, CY, PHK, AS, NG, AM, MM, JP, RO, JD, AP A fairly painless, four hour evening flight from humdrum Stansted finds your intrepid Clidivers…
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Flippering in the Farnes, 9–12 September
By Peter Martin Why would you go to Seahouses, a fishing village in Northumberland? For the sunrise over the ocean? For the sandy beach with its windswept dunes, several miles long and largely unspoilt by the plastic litter so abundant…
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Habitats, forts, wrecks and reefs – Plymouth, August Bank Holiday
By Peter Martin Can people live under water? Glaucus, the underwater habitat, was the labour of love of 19-year old Colin Iwin of Bournemouth & Poole SAC. A steel cylinder, 3.7m long with a diameter of 2.1m, Glaucus did not…
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