Hi everyone,

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

Hi there jeremy,

thank you for the fantastic amount of money you raised for the Save Our Fins event, I hope you had a great birthday!

Have you ever dived in Cornwall?
Dawney

Hi Dawn,

I did have a great birthday and was really pleased to prize some cash out of my drunken friends!

Did you see the video my friend made of the event..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0-X3IrKW8

Yep I have been diving down in Cornwall. Have been to Hayle a couple of times to dive the Train wreck, the Zone and Pandora’s Box….. all of which were fantastic. I was so impressed by the visibility on the north coast. Also I trained originally down at Porthkerris and have been down to both installments of Dive Fest, which were pretty good fun.

I guess you must live down that way as you were involved with the Newquay Save our fins event. How did that go? Where do you tend to go diving down in Cornwall?

Jeremy

I did see the video..... it like a good time was had by all! We will be contacting the shark trust shortly and we are sending links to them of all the videos made. Did you watch the video from scbafish in Thailand?
I was at divefest both times! Didn’t see you there....lol!!!

The newquay event went well and we are just collecting in the last bit of sponsor money...I was one of the mermaids on the pic in the photo gallery....Shaun was sponge bob!

I love diving at Porthkerris conditions are usually great!

Dawney

I wonder whether you did see me at Dive Fest though.... I was dressed as a Native American Indian with a big headdress! Think we ended up face painting most of the people in the big tent on the Sunday night.

You are right, the diving off Porthkerris can be brilliant on its good days. Am always impressed by how many great photos are taken there.

I did see the video from the Thailand bunch- they really gave it some welly!

Will definitely let you know if we’re diving down in Cornwall any time soon and if not maybe see you at Dive Fest next year.

Guess what Jeremy....I did see you at dive fest you got rather warm as i recall and went topless!

That might have been my rather over-exuberant friend Nathan actually!
Was a great night though

ahhhhh I see!.....lol but were you in his tribe?