All members undertaking dives, whether with the club or with other groups and clubs, should inform our Dive Officer, Dave Whittam before they dive. This is a mandatory BSAC club and insurance requirement.

Dive Reports 2008: Check out the dive operators on our links page.

Technical Dives: Dave Whittam lead a new team of technical divers focusing on deeper diving with twin sets and stages. This entailed a lot of training, more details to follow.

April Midweek - Farnes: Early start to the season for 8 divers, poor viz but plenty of diving with Stan Hall. Report to follow.

Weekend 17th-18th May 2008: Eyemouth hardboat diving with Marinequest. Nick, Dave and Liz, plus Egil from Harrogate joined up with other passengers on the Northern Star. First dive on the Glanmire wreck, 32m, with a lot to see in good viz, a decent wreck just off St. Abbs head well worth diving. Second dive in sheltered spot beyond at St Abbs, easy scenic dive. Sunday blown out!

Weekend 28th-29th June 2008: Farnes, Northumberland, hardboat diving with William Shiel for 12 divers. 2 dives on the Hopper, Pinnacles and Hurcars saw an abundance of seals in good visibility in sunny conditions.

Seal	Seal	Seal
Common Starfish	Moon Jellyfish	Wrasse
Longstone	The Team	Seal Video 31MB - 5 Mins

Long Weekend 18th~21st July 2008: Isle of Mann, a first for the club, organised by Tony for 8 divers. Excellent dives in good conditions, report to follow.

Weekend 9th~10 August 2008: Eyemouth, RIB diving with Aquastars. Despite choppy condions 4 dives were completed with conditions getting better throughout the weekend. A mixture of dives around Eyemouth and St Abbs included, Congor Reef, Ebb Carrs and the broken wreck of the Alfred Earlandsen, Burnmouth Caves - a classic and back to St Abbs for Anemone reef, the best dive of the weekend. Situated at the nothern end of St. Abbs, Anemone Reef runs out down to 25m, in clear water with an abundance of red, orange and white anemones, with shoals of pollack drifting by.

Eyemouth	Velvet Crab	Edible Crab
Dahlia Anemone	Dahlia Anemone	Plumrose Anemone
Plumrose Anemone	Plumrose Anemone	Plumrose Anemone
Gurnard	Common Lobster	St Abbs Head

September 13th-14th 2008: Bass Rock blown out despite Drystan's concerted efforts.

Weekend 20th~21st September 2008: Farnes, Northumberland, hardboat diving this time with Stan Hall for 12 divers. Repeat of the June trip, tons of seals but with quite poor viz. Again 2 dives on the Hopper, for the ever present seals posing for many Fuji cameras in video mode. Second dives on the Nothern Hares and on the Knifestone in very favourable conditions. The wreckage of the Abessinia was easily loacted at 15~20m, a large propellor, boilers and girders with seals darting amonst the groups of divers.