Havering Scuba Divers

17/05/2015

Please note that the final Havering Scuba Divers pool session will be on Sunday 26 July 2015. So if you need to get your gear wet you should get in there soon!!

26/01/2015

It is with huge regret that we must announce the death of our Chairman, long standing member and great friend Mark Smoothy. Mark's funeral will be held at the church in Havering atte Bower on 2 February 2015. Our thoughts are with his family.

24/11/2014

Toby and Pete just spent a lovely day at Wraysbury where Toby completed his first Ocean Diver open water dives. The sun was shining and the air temperature hit about 7 degrees. The water temperature hit a huge 10! We managed 3 dives covering all the basics plus more and it all went very well. We look forward to moving on to the next dives in December when we will aim for single digit water temperature!!! Lovely.....

06/10/2014

Pete & Becky at Decathlon on Saturday!!

04/10/2014

Becky, Gary and Pete spent a few hours at Decathlon in Lakeside today saying hello to shoppers and handing out BSAC freebies. If you stped to chat, why not come down to the pool one Sunday and arrange a Try Dive. You may enjoy it enough to join the club!!

22/07/2014

Thanks to Tim for his dive report from Brighton. To read it log onto www.hsd1223.org.uk and select Club Dive Reports on the left.

The club has a number of BSAC nationally qualified instructors and teaches according to the BSAC diver training programme.

22/07/2014

Yes the viz was average but there was still life out of Brighton. I even saw a good sized lobster hiding in the silt.

20/07/2014

Just back from a dive out of Brighton on Brighton Diver 2. The boat is so big I got lost at one stage!!! The storms did not help the viz with about 2m the maximum. Still, it was nice and warm both above and below which always helps. A decent wreck (well Tim and Pete thought so) and an average to poor drift. Still, after the season so far it was a successful day.

04/07/2014

Pick up a copy of this week's Romford Recorder. Our Scouts' try dive from last Sunday is covered on page 67. Good stuff!

30/06/2014

2nd Romford Scouts joined us on 29th June for a try dive session. 11 scouts got wet and all had an excellent time! Thanks to all club members who volunteered to assist on the night in making it such a success.

23/06/2014

I told you it was a big lobster. Paul is with his new pet from Newhaven!!

22/06/2014

Yes, yes, yes, we finally managed a full day of diving out of Newhaven today on Sea-Zones. 5 divers made the trip due to illness and late withdrawals. With 'average' viz due to plankton blooms the th*****me found the diving challenging. However, Paul scored points for fishing with a pretty huge lobster (photos to follow). Anyway, all ended well and the weather was beautiful. Oh yes, and Mick the skipper provided the jam scones yet again. So let's bring on Brighton next month!!

18/06/2014

Now I'm saying this really quietly as I don't want to bring any more bad luck, but the weather is looking pretty good for the weekend. So at the fourth time of trying this year we may get a decent dive day on Sunday out of Newhaven. Keep everything crossed.

26/05/2014

Well that was the weekend that the 'Dive Club That Doesn't Dive' finally went diving in 2014. Unfortunately, out of 6 scheduled dips we only managed one. You could say 2 dives but 7 minutes underwater including a 3 minute safety stop does not count (less than zero viz I swear to you!!). The one real dive we did was very good but all in all it was a weekend to forget. So onto Newhaven in June when things must get better. At least the hotel was nice so thanks to Paul for his organisation.

24/05/2014

Fingers crossed we can do some diving on Skin Deep today.

23/05/2014

Where's Nemo?

23/05/2014

And so the season of blow-outs continues. We are at rainy Weymouth and day one of the weekend has been called off due to the bad weather. We hope to get wet tomorrow but who knows. So it's off to the Sea Life centre to look at some fish behind glass!! We will let you know how tomorrow pans out......