Monthly Archives: August 2010

All change, please

Week 1 of our expedition to Mull has just ended with the traditional trip to the Mishnish. But the diving doesn’t stop. We’re off out of the Sound today to take advantage of the greatly improved weather. A new batch

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Accelerated Decompression Course

Clidive have just completed our first BSAC Accelerated Decompression Procedures Course. This new course trains divers to carry out accelerated decompression on rich nitrox mixes. The course finished yesterday by doing two dives in the Sound of Mull on the

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Coll no

The weather didn’t hold. We woke up whistling winds from the north, making the trip out to Coll impossible. So we settled for an atmospheric dive on the Shuna, lunch at Lochaline, then a dive on the Rondo, which everyone

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Nudi Heaven, Lizzie Rocks

The title is not a cryptic crossword clue, but a summary of the day. Elizabeth Rock, an underwater hillock near Bo Fascadale, is crawling with nudibranches. Especially the big white furry ones whose name we can’t work out. Photos to

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Change of plan

We woke up to find it was foggy. Very foggy. So we scrubbed the plan and went diving at Sligneach Mor in Loch Sunart instead. This is an island heavily populated by seals, who haul out at low water. After

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