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…
A week later than planned thanks to the weather, the results of this year’s annual photo competition were revealed on 8th March. It was a strong field, with 15 photographers entering 245 photographs. Here are the winners in each of the categories.
This year’s festive dips took place on December 21st. There were actually only 4 of us there officially for the Mince Pie Dives—Sarah, Alastair, Miles and me (Sally)—but our ranks were swelled by some members doing practical work for their Dive Leader Course, namely Paul N and Simon C under…
Hillary, Miles, Richard, Stan, Peter, Graham, Russel, Jim, David, Sally, Geoff, Joules, Paul, Jon, Jeanie, Bondie, Brett and myself, all met outside the leisure centre to wait for a coach which unbeknown to us was to arrive 45 minutes late. But due to Hillary’s awesome planning skills we still made…
The divers The annual trip to the Isles of Scilly in June included all the usual suspect with one or two new additions: Rich Wells, Stan Russell, Mark Jeffreys, Pete Virgo, Jon Arthur, Andy Bacon, Hilary Wilson, Miles Howarth, Chris Prichard, Clare Virgo, Geoff Russell, Pete Talbot and Adrian Taylor.…
In mid September, nine Stratford Dive Club members enjoyed the delights of diving in Dorset from Tango, the big orange dive boat, based in Weymouth. I particularly wanted us to dive two iconic wrecks—the Aeolian Skye and the Elena R, because they are both BIG wrecks with wreckage that stands…
Well done and many thanks from the club to Dan Rowe and Ellen Noakes for taking the next step in putting something back into the club, in ‘payment’ for their own training. They have both given up their weekend and paid for the pleasure of doing so by spending the…
The results of the 2017 photo competition were announced in a great evening on April 6th. Take a look at the winning entries in each of the twelve categories.
With another dive season imminent, we organised a training day at Stoney Cove to get qualifications completed and new trainees in the water for the first time. The weather was better than expected, no rain and even a small amount of sunshine, but underwater was not so kind with pretty…
