Just a short message to say hello its good to met you all. 

I travel about a lot so will hopefully see some of you out and about I could pop up anywhere so if your on holiday look out for me both above and below the water.

No blue jokes though  

Are there are any Smurfettes out there ?

Papa

Ps any chance of getting an Avatar?

I thought I’d just introduce myself to the group. Shaun (Fuller) asked me to join after having been in contact with him in organising one of the Save Our Fins events.

I’m based in London and do most of my diving with the University of London Sub Aqua Club (ULSAC). I’ve been pretty active with the club for 6 years or so now and love the mixture of diving, training and socialising I get from the club.

Most of my diving has been in the UK but have been to places as varied as Narvik in Norway, Hawaii and Croatia. A mate of mine and I ran a trip to the South of France last year, which was amazing fun and I definitely recommend the diving there to anyone.

Here’s a link to the trip report I wrote up….
http://ulsac.net/docs/tripreports/tripreport-southoffrance09.pdf

For somewhere so close the South of France offers beautiful wrecks, more fish than people would have you believe are in the Mediterranean and obviously the class of the French Riviera! 

If anyone has any questions on organising a trip to the South of France, just give me a shout!

I recently just came back from diving in the Western Isle of Scotland, where we were trying to get out to St Kilda. Unfortunately we didn’t make it out there but we were lucky enough to do some fantastic diving anyways. I’ll copy in an article I wrote for the ULSAC newsletter to the trip forum on our trip to St Kilda.

Anyways that’s me- hope to chat with a load of people soon and gossip about diving, which is quite frankly the best thing around!

Jeremy

i’m a relatively new diver, having passed my bsan ocean diver a few months ago, and i’m a member of my local club (glasgow underwater group)...i’ve only got about 8 dives under my belt and get out about 2-3 times a month depending on weather/work/money etc!

i’m about to move to Oban to start a marine science degree, so feel free to message me if you’re in the area!!

Thats all for now.. I’m a bit grumpy as i was awoken this morning (7am) buy the builders next door.. I did ask the to be quiet.. but they just ignored me can carried on.. the cheek of them… bang bang bang,,, funny thing is, that by 8;15 they finished the banging and started on something else which was quiet… sods law.. or there just sods.. 

These might get more interesting,, but who knows ..

Looking forward to LIDS saturday

I’ll be back as Arney would say

I completed the Scuba Diver part of my license during Feb & will complete the open water at the end of May (due to the horrible weather at Stoney Cove - it was snowing when we went in! Had to refuse the second dive as I was too numb to open my BCD!    - may not have thought through the plan quite as well but had decided to learn to dive as a “present” to myself for loosing 7 stones in weight but hadn’t considered the UK’s terrible weather as, as soon as I did the Discover I was completely hooked

I am off on hols to South France in Aug & hopefully my eldest will complete her O/W referral too & am looking for ideas of the most useful/recommended insurance co’s & any buddies to get more involved.

Thanks all - looking forward to meeting more of you

Charlies

Just a quick introduction. I’m very new to Diving, in fact so new that i haven’t even got my feet wet yet haha, but this year i’m going to see where it will take me.

I’m planning to get abroad at the end of the month to get my open water certificate. Any advice of where to go or companies to learn with would be gratefully appreciated.

It would be nice to hear from beginners and more experience divers alike and hopefully i’ll get the chance to dive with you guys in the near future.

Russell