Congratulations to Simon Steed, who has passed all his instructor exams to become a fully qualified Open Water Instructor. Simon joined the club in 2015 and has done all his diver training with the club. He recently completed an intensive instructor training course at Stoney Cove. Simon has served as…
Congratulations to Andy Dale, Simon Watkins and Simon Steed who all passed the IFC to become Assistant Instructors. Further congratulations to Simon Steed who continued on to do his OWIC. We look forward to seeing them all at the pool over the coming weeks.
Congratulations to Chris Bradbury, Dan Rowe and Andy Dale for passing their RYA Level 2.
Mark Jeffrey took over organisation of the Pembroke trip which has always been a popular and regular target for us to dive as a club. We chartered the dive boat Eva Marie and spent a long weekend in the waters around St Davids and Milford Haven. We were luck enough…
We had another fabulous trip to Lundy last weekend, with plenty of playful seals. Rather than lots of words, here’s a short video that Simon Gurney put together.
12 of us made the trip down to Swanage for a great (if slightly soggy and windy) long weekend’s diving. Only one (Sally) had the foresight to book into a B&B, the rest of us endured a variety of sleepless nights, in the unseasonal wind and rain, in our tents.…
Twelve Stratford Divers headed to Northumberland in early July to dive the clear waters round the Farne Islands. Last year we had only been allowed to have 7 on the boat due to Covid restrictions but happily we had a full complement this year. We were: Hoppo, Peter T, Paul…
The midweek Lyme Regis daydash is a long standing club tradition, but after nearly seven years in the club this was the first time I’ve actually managed to get to one! It was well worth the wait though. The trip was ably organised by Andy Dale, who had even managed…
The annual club trip to the Isles of Scilly ran from June to 11th to 18th and was a huge success this year. The weather was kind and the conditions were very good for diving. Jon and Andy expertly took the club rib Hornet across while the rest of us…
A large number of members struggled down the M5 through the perfect storm of B/H, half-term, good weather and a burgeoning sense of freedom. We camped and dived down in the southwest and from the larger group 10 divers shared both Hornet and Portia and did some really nice diving…
