Author: Gregor C. Friday the 13th, a date that will now be remembered as the “curse of the plankton bloom”. Nevertheless, OUUEG divers planned a trip on that day and promptly suffered a little from the curse: with unfortunately two divers having to pull out last minute and a mishap Read more…
With the summer finally arriving, and reports of there being a strange thing called “the sea” into which one could dive, an expeditionary force was assembled. After a couple of minor adjustments to line-up the intrepid adventurers set off to Plymouth to see what this whole salt-watery-diving-thing was all about… Read more…
Author: Ed We arose with the cock-crow, impatient to fulfil the purpose for which we had travelled so far. Upon arriving at the harbour we assembled our kit with an almost military efficiency and, whilst jeering at some unfortunates desperately bailing out their stricken vessel, took to sea. The first Read more…
Dates: 19-20th July 2014, Location: Plymouth (JEL, Shagstone, HMS Scylla, SS Persier), Participants: Ali, Maha (organiser), Holger, Tom, Severin (author) The trip started under challenging circumstances: many of our active divers had just returned from 8 days of diving in the Sound of Mull in Scotland a few days before Read more…
Dates: 7-9th, September 2012 , Author: Nick, Divers: Grainne (co-ordinator), Tom, Giles, Penny and Nick Sadly there has been very little in the way of diving this summer on account of the weather. So when clear skies and highs of 250C arrived in the UK, we were fortunate that someone still remembered Read more…
Dates: summer 2011, Author: Margreit It all started of with a small group of people going down on Friday, with many more joining during the week. On Saturday Horse turned out to be in urgent need of (more) TLC, as it would only go slow and extremely slow as it was. Read more…
Dates: May 2010, Author: Luke This trip saw us heading down to Plymouth with a rather unusual mission – looking for sea urchins. While we’re normally on the lookout for anything tasty while diving, I must admit that spiky echinoderms are not usually on the list. Sea urchins eggs are Read more…