By Adam Howard For the first bank holiday in May, eight of us took the club van and our yellow boat to Plymouth. Plymouth has plenty of shipwrecks and marine life, and is definitely considered a club favourite. The weather…

By Matt Brown Over the Easter weekend, a group of intrepid Clidivers descended onto the isle of Portland for the traditional ‘the diving season must begin at Easter’ trip. It’s always seemed a bit odd that the season begins on…

By Steve Walsh, Clidive Boat Officer As you know, Clidive (i.e. you and me, the members!) owns two lovely RIBs (rigid-hulled inflatable boats): Yellow (7m long) and Blue (6.5m). The boats and their trailers take a lot of punishment over…

For more years than I care to remember, I’ve been giving diving lectures that are all, to some extent, about managing risk and being safe. I particularly enjoy doing the one that includes the ‘incident pit’, because I have a…

Words: Jonathan Perlmutter/Pictures: Simon de Lotz Our party of nine fumbled its way, by plane, by train and by automobile, along the humid underbelly of Europe, until we were met with a peninsula, which had the town of Hyeres at…