January 11, 2009
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Happy New Year from Montrose Sub Aqua Club!
The 2008/2009 Winter Training Session is proving to be a busy one for BSAC500’s diving instructors. This year the club has no less than 10 new members who are all busy learning and practicing the skills they’ll require when they leave behind the confines of the Montrose Swimming Pool and venture out into the open water for their first taste of what scuba diving is really about. It may be the quietest time of year in the club diving calendar but thoughts are turning to where we’ll be heading for 2009’s club dive trips. Places are already filling up on recently announced expeditions to club favourites Glen Uig and Oban in May and there will be plenty more to come in the months ahead.
2009 is shaping up to be an exciting one for BSAC500 with lots of new members joining the familiar faces and sharing dives at new locations as well as old favourites. We’re lucky enough to have the opportunity to dives sites that are highly regarded not only in national diving circles but by divers around the globe (there are mutterings of an expedition to Scapa Flow this year!).
Whatever 2009 brings make sure you check up on bsac500.co.uk from time to time and find out the latest on where we’ve been and what we’ve been up to.
Cheers!
January 11, 2009
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On our (not so) recent club trip to Kyle of Lochalsh we were treated to some of the wildest weather that Scotland has to offer. Given our track record over recent years you’d have to question our decision to make Kyle the location for our last club dive trip of the year and this year was certainly no exception! It was wild, wild, wild. So much so that on the Saturday it just wasn’t safe to set to sea and we had to make do with a day trip onto Skye for a bit of sight-seeing. Unlike a previous rather embarrassing episode in the history of the club where we were weathered out in Oban, we didn’t resort to stopping somewhere for a nice cup of tea and a chat. Instead, we watched Alan get all Japanese tourist (photographic evidence below) with the spectacular weather and then had a pint in Portree.
The weather improved sufficiently on Sunday for us to carry out a dive on the Port Napier – a wreck familiar to many Scottish divers – despite decidedly chilly conditions and squally showers passing over. It was one of those dives where you hardly want to make your way back to the surface with the knowledge that what you’re returning to is a world apart from the tranquil conditions underwater. Nobody was in a hurry to get back in the water again as the day didn’t look to be improving much, so we loaded up and headed back East again. Let’s hope that our next visit to Kyle is blessed with spectacular weather at the opposite end of the spectrum!
