In the spirit of optimism and courage in adversity it behoves Stratford Dive Club to finish each year off with the Annual Mince Pie Dive—a day of diving and face stuffing in equal measure. This year, despite monsoon conditions we had the best turnout we have ever had for this…
Once again Stratford Divers headed off to Lundy in June for a fabulous trip of sunshine and seals, organised by Angie. Rather than a lot of words, here’s the trip report in the form of a video
We had such a great time last year I decided to run the trip again this year and it didn’t disappoint. I booked 4 days diving with DiveStay at Eyemouth. One of the great things about this company is that they own the accommodation as well as the boat so…
This March, seven intrepid divers visited the Midlands Diving Chamber. The chamber is based in Rugby hospital and facilitates NHS funded recompression after diving related incidents as well as offering oxygen therapy for a number of ailments, sports related healing and informative dry dives. Intros out of the way, Robbie…
It’s that time of year again! Time to dig out your best photos from 2018 and get ready for one of the highlights of the winter calendar—the annual club photography competition. You have until 7th February to give your photos to either Sally or Hilary. All the entries will be…
In July twelve Stratford Divers travelled north to dive the iconic dive sites around St Abbs. For those not familiar with the area, St Abbs is on the East coast of Scotland, south of the Firth of Forth and less than 10 miles north of the border. I hadn’t dived…
Hardy members of Stratford Dive Club enjoyed our Christmas bash at Stoney Cove last Wednesday, December 19th. The weather was kind to us, dry, mild and sunny—eventually. As we all gathered in the car park to discuss dive plans, it soon became apparent that between us we had rather overdone…
Well actually, the hardboat way. Which some might say is the easy way. And I might even agree with them. The club’s traditional RIB trip to the Isles of Scilly isn’t the only way to dive this wonderful UK destination and Sophie and I decided we would explore the alternative—a…
This Saturday saw the big guns come out… and shoot poor defenceless ‘creatures’, well that’s what you would believe but there were so many ‘misses’ that more survived than were ‘killed’! Winner Jay Scott 29/30… yet again. So we need to exclude him or seriously handicap him next time; any…
