Cardigan Sub Aqua Club

A great days diving today with 8 divers and the 2 club boats.

We launched from Porthclais, with the first dive being the Hermatite, in 34m. We found the boiler, lots of engine and the prop. Everyone enjoyed this one.

Then on to Ramsay and Bell Rock on the North Bishop. The wind had picked up and slack was 3.5 hours after the tide not as predicted. Most stayed above 25 m on the Langton Grange. Visibility was 5m, we had lots of fun and many items spotted. Loads of fish and a few lobsters. The sea started to run which curtailed diving for the last couple of divers.

Then over to Solva and the Douglas.
A slick launch and recovery, a few wise and older heads are always useful.

A great day thanks all for your company.

Launching from Cardigan tonight for a lovely dive in this warm Welsh weather.

Our members reported seeing spider crab one of whom was infected with blue sponge, brown crab, lobster, crayfish, banded shrimp, wrasse (multiple species), po***ck, and a friendly couple of seals at the surface.

Also a big well done to Ffion for signing off the last elements of her Ocean Diver qualification tonight 👏🏻

The benefits of being part of a dive club are impromptu evening dives like this.

We have cancelled the pool session tonight and instead are taking the club boats out for an early evening dive. 14 divers booked in and I am told the brief is marine life identification.

A good book to support this is this one published by Seasearch.

Back to the pool again last night.
We had :

🤿 Another Try Dive.
🤿 Two new divers joining us for the first time.
🤿 Members practicing photographic skills.
🤿 A member testing out a brand new dry suit - yes they reported they did remain dry!!👏🏻

All in all a good productive evening of scuba. 👌🏻🤿

We are not at the pool every Tuesday in the summer months, so if you want to find out more, book a Try Dive or join us, please get in touch and we can tell you when the next session will be.

Spring Tides but we managed to sneak out on a quick club dive from Porthgain today.

We were diving the wreck of the Amazonense. The Amazonense was a British steamship that sank after hitting rocks near St. David’s Head on April 16, 1881. The 1,791-ton iron screw steamer was built in Southampton in 1879 and operated by R. Singlehurst & Co. (Red Cross Line). No lives were lost during the sinking.

The Investigation into its sinking is published here:

https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10168&fbclid=IwRlRTSATcg2dwZG9mBWZkaWQWULu1FVUU9lLzXHpiOxn3WLb7uLYGs2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR5dJnpiDDdnl6JMfe0AMwJE8OSTehtsMOV572metx6Xoh3u2oxmiCz2_yFm2A_aem_09jOcJAkX7brYJVufk0wbg

From a divers perspective it is a big wreck flat in 17m. The massive upright prop is the star attraction. We saw a cray, crab, loads of candy strip flat worms and a pair of lobster just about to have a fight.

After one dive, due to the tide making recovery difficult we retreated back to the Sloop Inn for a debrief in the sun.

BSAC - British Sub-Aqua Club