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From Ironmonger Row Baths to the Red Sea

I joined Clidive in the middle of 2013 after an unexpected free try dive at Ironmonger Baths. I’d gone along for a normal swim and ended up cruising around the bottom of the pool with all the dignified balance and

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Diving the Great Wall of Sanday

We were staying in Tobermory in Mull with the intention of diving new sites around the islands of Eigg, Rhum and Canna. The weather had been windy most of the week so we had been stuck in the Sound – though

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Plymouth Training Trip July 2013

James and Helena, Clidive’s newest Ocean Divers, report on their first weekend. After working their way through a superbly run Ocean Diver course in the pool and classrooms of Clidive’s Ironmonger Row HQ these past couple of months, James and Helena

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Penzance 4-6, Classic Cornwall

Glorious sunshine, flat calm seas and NO MIST! Classic Cornwall diving. Runnel Stone was double the previous viz at 10m and Bucks 12m+. Viz of the week was the wreck of the Lincoln. You could see for 15m at 30m.

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Penzance Day 3

Flat calm seas. Hooray. Straight to the Runnel Stone, 10 miles along the coast from Penzance. What a top dive. Despite the viz being a bit lower than we have seen the rock was dripping with life. The plumose and

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