Happy new year to all Clidive members and friends! In this short Newsplash: Looking back: highlights from the 2019 Annual General Meeting, including the new committee; don’t forget to buy your 50th anniversary t-shirt. Looking forward: the 2020 dive programme;…

By Nick Barter Two birds with one stone? When I think about what sets Clidive apart from many other clubs, I always come back to its dedication to adventurous diving and in particular the RIB expeditions we run every year.…

Welcome to Newsplash. In this bumper edition: Diving Conference highlights – a peek at 2020’s dive programme – the AGM (please be there!) – our 50th Anniversary celebrations – Christmas Party reminder – new qualifications – Try-dives and Ocean Diver…

By Matt Brown 21 June 1919 – “Paragraph Eleven of to-day’s date. Acknowledge”. So began the scuttling of the entire German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. Exactly 100 years later, six intrepid Clidivers headed very…

By Matt Byrne There is no doubt about it, this was an epic trip. Certainly, anyone sitting in Yellow during the first dive at the moment when we had an unexpected visitor is unlikely to forget it. The pair of…