2021 has proven to be a busy year
for Reading BSAC albeit a little backloaded in the season! A combination of
rolled over trips and pent-up demand has meant that whenever possible, members
have leapt at chances to get in the water. We have even managed to fit in 3
weeks’ worth of diving from the Isle of Mull.
Two […]
Friday 28th May – Monday 31st May
The Crew –
Bernard, Colin, Emma, Peter, Liz, Mike, Tanya, Neil, Gareth and Ian.
Friday 28th May, Colin, Emma and I met at the club at 08.30 on Friday morning. The mess outside the access gate was horrendous following the Travellers party the night before but we got in and out […]
West
Bay 30th April – 2nd May.
RBSAC’s first RHIB trip of 2021 was a weekend at West Bay with our own ‘Reading Cormorant’. The club is well resourced with our 2 RHIBs and plenty of keen divers to operate and maintain them. As we are all easing out of COVID lockdowns, this dive trip required an […]
Despite the club’s 60+ year history; and having dived from Shetland to the Scillies and St Kilda to Ireland, it perhaps surprising that we have never visited the Isle of Man. I’d been talking about trying to run a trip to the Isle of Man for some time (at least the last 2 years), but […]
For the early May Bank holiday this year I thought it would be good to return to a familiar location but to try out a boat new to me and new to Reading BSAC.
We had chartered Abyss, we had 10 divers and we had a good weather forecast! With the usual accommodation booked at the […]
After an easy drive to Gatwick and rendezvous on Sunday morning, nine of us were flying to Bergen for 4 days’ diving in the beautiful Norwegian fjords.
The transfer journey whet our appetites for the amazing scenery; it took us through some incredible roads and tunnels – and we just caught the “quick” ferry to the […]
The almost 400-mile journey to Eyemouth flew by as I was on my way to my second sea diving trip following Falmouth and I was eager to get back into the water again. The sun was shining for the bank holiday weekend and the wind was in our favour with good conditions for diving.
Eyemouth is […]
As we drove down to the Lizard through the usual bank holiday traffic, I reflected that it had been about 4 years since I had last done any Easter diving. I was looking forward to the variety of sites present, although I would miss the opportunity to dive out of Lamorna Cove since the sea […]
The bank holiday weekend diving in Plymouth in my opinion represented the whole spectrum of everything that diving in the UK has to offer. As a start, a big thank you should go to Colin who managed and organised everything expertly and additional thanks should go to those towing the boats.
The Mount Batten Centre was […]
A group of us headed down to Brighton on Friday 12 August for a weekend of firsts: first time the club has used AirBnB for accommodation; first time diving with hard boat charter Defiance; first time finding ourselves 450 feet up in a futuristic glass viewing pod, enjoying bird’s eye views of Brighton and beyond.
AirBnB
Perhaps Emma […]
