Holborn Scuba London

Another year, another successful and fun Beach BBQ dive down in Portland. Having had flat calm weather for at least a couple of weeks beforehand, it decided to come in hard from the West for us - typical! However, we made the best of it and got Sam, Shirya and Delilah their first ever UK sea dives on the Dredger, collected scallops at Grove Point (thanks Matt and Suz) and had a lovely BBQ on the beach at Castletown. On Sunday we managed to get out to and dive the Hartlepool. Great weekend.

Saturday was our first open water session for the current BSAC Ocean Diver course. Blessed with some fab weather and a rather quiet Wraysbury, it was a fun day. Our Ocean Diver trainees - Amy, Cristina, and Juexi - did brilliantly and completed the skills for the first two dives.

This weekend the club travelled back to Dorset for two days of diving and a fantastic sunset BBQ. Despite some afternoon mist on Saturday, we dived the Hartlepool and Enecuri wrecks, with some lovely critters on show: sea hares, congers, shrimps, spider crabs, and nudibranchs. We came across a couple of thornback rays on Sunday's scalloping drift dive, and what a haul of scallops! Such a great trip.

How do you give Basic Life Support (BLS) to a casualty on a small boat? What do you do if there’s two causalities? Mia, Laura and Dave, our BSAC Advanced Diver (AD) trainees, spent the weekend practicing their rescue skills. Led by instructors Zoé and Mark, the skills included simulated rescues from 20m, recovering the casualties to the boat, giving oxygen, chest compressions and defibrillation, all whilst keeping in contact the emergency services. Our ADs demonstrated their excellent rescue skills and shows the importance the club places on diving safety. Well done to everyone involved!

This bank holiday weekend we took out the club's boat to dive around Dorset's coastline. The weather was perfect, the visibility great, and the dining sublime (that poached sea bass…).

Diving with a club is so much fun!

Full pool of try-divers, instructors, and members alike. Everybody is getting ready for a summer full of diving! Want to join the club?

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Although not the best weather for May, our intrepid (aren’t they always intrepid?) Ocean Diver trainees had a good three days for their Wraysbury Lake open water dives. Many congratulations to Mo, Finn, Costa and Harry who completed all their skills and are now fully qualified!

After saying goodbye to the dive centre staff, who were amazing, we spent the last day enjoying Alicante’s sights (and tastes).