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15 year Surface Interval. |
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Written by MikeJ
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:04 |
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The Last dive log in my little red book was dated 1995. It didn’t seem that long ago but the date suggests otherwise! Then in early spring my neighbour (Graham), who I knew to be a BSAC diver, gave me a load of Dive magazines to browse.
You know how things tend to go once you start reading, so yes: I was soon dragging my old dive bag out of storage. Most of it was delivered to local dive shops for servicing and I bought a few items such as an octopus (these weren’t common practice in 1995; buddy beathing was taught) plus a few sessions on ebay.
After Google-ing my old BSAC club: Calshot Sub-Aqua Club, I started turning up at the weekly meetings. Almost all of the members were unknown to me but they definitely have the same friendly welcoming outlook that the club has always had.
As a result of this I have restarted diving with the club, thoroughly enjoying it, and looking forward to more during the rest of the season.
If anyone reading this hasn’t dived in a while then I definitely recommend contacting Calshot Sub-Aqua Club! |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 04 May 2011 21:51 )
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Calshot Divers on BBC Radio Solent |
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Written by John Greenwood
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Monday, 19 July 2010 17:43 |
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Following our recent Try-Dive advertising we were lucky enough to have Nadine Dukeson from BBC Radio Solent attend for a try dive in Hounsdown swimming pool. Nadine, along with 3 other prospective trainees, were given a brief initial introduction to the Calshot branch and the British Sub-Aqua Club before being shown the more practical side of diving and the equipment involved.
Once changed everyone completed a short swimming test (damn those insurance requirements!) and then progressed to snorkel, where they got to grips with straight leg fining and using standardised hand signals to communicate. Once everyone was happy we moved onto the heavy kit, 12kg cylinders and a few extra kilos of lead to make sure we went down and stayed there - finally we were really diving!
As soon as we reached the deep end of the pool, Nadine was attacked by the smallest battery powered penguin you can imagine! You know the type, small bullet type body and an exposed plastic propeller that just loves to wrap hair around itself. The penguin still works, and Nadine didn’t mention the hair pulling on the radio – so I think we got away with it! From then on things settled down, forward and backward rolls, break dancing, buddha balancing and messing with the underwater frisbee all of which caused no further injuries.
Nadine’s report was broadcast a few days later on Jon Cuthill’s morning program on Radio Solent.
Listen to a snippet of the BBC Radio Solent broadcast made by Nadine after her Try Dive.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 21 March 2011 21:51 )
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Written by John Greenwood
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Monday, 26 April 2010 09:31 |
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We have been talking about the local Sunderland Flying Boats for years in the club, but never actually dived one. Research carried out over the last 6 months had enabled us to pretty accurately locate one wreck and three potential names for the aircraft – PP118, G-AGKY or ML883. This Sunday tides, weather, lifeboats (and a quiet evening in the pub on Wednesday) meant the time was right for a sonar search of the target area.
We launched the RIB from Calshot around noon and on our first pass over the target area we located a 5m high ‘bump’, a couple of quick turns showed we were over something of a descent size! We spent the next couple of hours zipping backwards and forwards taking depth readings every metre or so. From the location of the site, its orientation and its general size it’s quite likely we have found a suitable dive target.

We did a quick run to the second target site and had a look around, but didn’t identify anything in the short time we were there. That’s probably something for next time.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 26 September 2011 12:30 )
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Dusting off the Cobwebs (Valentine Tanks): Dive report 18/04/10 |
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Written by Carl
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Sunday, 25 April 2010 13:46 |
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As the winter months were finally over it was time to dust off all the dive gear cobwebs and get back in the water. Although the start of the dive season is no surprise to anyone it is incredible how many divers don’t prepare their kit for the forthcoming season….well, erm… perhaps I should say its incredible how I don’t prepare MY kit for the forthcoming season!
A quick check of my dive kit the day before discovered two latex wrist seals that were harder than steel and titanium combined and 2 leaky regs. Hmmm, I thought….this could make my first dive with Calshot Sub-Aqua Club a little bit tricky to say the least!
After an easy drive to the top secret boat location and (by my standards anyway) relatively faff free boat preparations, Helen, Ralph, Steve and myself set off to Poole Harbour to dive the Valentine Tanks. “Why are they called the Valentine Tanks?” and even more confusingly – “why are tanks in 15m of seawater in the first place?” are questions I just can’t answer but they are tanks and diveable so that’s fine by me.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 25 April 2010 16:47 )
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