Monthly Archives: April 2011

Sand monsters in Malta

Victor and Guhan realised that rescue skills on a beach leaves them looking like sand monsters!

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Day 1 in Gozo

10 divers , 6 more still in transit. The day was spent at Hondoq after much kit faffing with training for ocean divers, sports diver, dive leaders and instructor training. The weather was less sunny than hoped (and by all

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Carnage on Carnaby Street

Having your dive club based in middle of Soho can mean that when a wet and bedraggled Joli clad in drysuit and twinset staggered down the street to place said kit in truck, there was much bewilderment from the slightly

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BSAC Boat handling course on the Thames, part II

Sometimes, even in the winter, it is sunny in London. The Thames has large tides and strong currents and is a great place to do boat handling training courses. After this course, we’ve got 6 more boat handlers in the

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Chartwork and Position Fixing on the Thames

What better way to spend a Sunday than on a boat cruising down the Thames Estuary to Canvey Island? After a day of navigation theory in the classroom, we boarded Londinium 1, the City of London Maritime Volunteer Service’s motor

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