Date: November 11th 2008

POOL NIGHT BACK TO WEDNESDAY AT WHITCHURCH

Pool News

As ever – Whitchurch followed by the Fox and Hounds!

Equipment

If you need equipment for pool or the weekend, please let Steve or Tristan know - please be aware that late returns will be charged for!!

Compressor News

 Bristol Channel Diving all now up and running again!

Dive News
Winter warmer November 8^th & 9^th

Here’s Teresa’s report

Last weekend saw the annual November winter warmer trip to Weymouth and this year it reverted to type with strong winds and rain all weekend. A brief attempt on Saturday to make it to a dive site other than Portland Harbour was aborted at the halfway mark and we turned round toward the shelter of

the harbour walls and the 'bottle bank'. This wasn't a huge disaster though when we found 
around 5m visibility in the area (when everyone else's silt wasn't drifting past you!). To prove it
was a worthwhile dive and determined to get the most out of our nitrox Mark and I wandered
around for over an hour looking at the various bottles, plates, dogfish and John Dory to be
found before heading back to the boat for hot soup. The afternoon dive found us on the
Countess of Erne, one of the wrecks along the inside of the wall.

This is one of those sites that is only ever dived in bad weather when everything else is blown
out and consequently is rarely seen (literally) or only in very bad vis. Making sure we were the
first in, we found several metres of visibility again and spent the first half of the dive slowly
exploring the open interior of the wreck before visibility was lost (no – we were not responsible
for that!). A large flatfish, probably a Brill, was also found lazily draped over a piece of wreckage
Eventually after it had been partially melted by the beam directed onto it it swam off. The
wreck lies only a metre or two away from the large blocks of the harbour wall which can also
be explored for the life living among them.Saturday evening saw the usual trip to Wetherspoons
for food, fantastically washed down by the large array of real ales available for the
Wetherspoons beer festival. The die-hards carried on afterwards, staggering back around 3am
and announcing their presence by opening every bedroom door before eventually finding the
bathroom.

Sunday dawned even windier but we still made it out to, you guessed it, the bottle bank.
Getting our money's worth once more, Mark and I spent another hour on the bottom, finding
a spare anchor for the RIB and several scallops to be sent up on a lifting bag and a cuttlefish
(which wasn't). Following this dive, the decision was made (not by me) to call it a day and go
home early (disgraceful).

Winter Warmer 31^st January/1^st February – Skin Deep

Anyone interested? Same as last weekend – works out at £80 + air fills (Ian charges £3 a fill)

 I will need a deposit of £20 asap!!

Manacles May 2009

 I have confirmed the rib as well as the hard boat with Dive Action, Please remember that if you put your name down for diving, you will be responsible for paying even if you cant make it!!

 I need deposits from Ali, Jake, Nick, Richard Kaz and Andy Powell  - also, Alex  if you still get the email can you please let me know if you are coming on the trip

I would recommend sorting out accommodation sooner rather than later given that we are going down for the bank holiday weekend. Below are a few suggestions or go to the Dive Action website at: http://www.diveaction.co.uk/

B&B’s

Parc an Grouse, St Keverne
Tel: 01326 280259

 Mrs R Kelly, Trevinock, St Keverne
Tel: 01326 280498

Nicky Glover, Foxglove, St Keverne
Tel: 01326 280284

 Pubs with accommodation

White Hart Inn, The Square, St. Keverne
Tel: 01326 280325

Camping & Caravan Parks

Gwendreath Farm Caravan Park, Kennack Sands
Tel: (01326) 290666

Little Trevothan, Coverack
Tel: 01326 280260

Heath Farm, Ponsongath, Coverack
Tel: 01326 280521

Branch of the Year Award 2008

Although this has now finished I’d like to keep the spreadsheet going as a record for the club – so please keep the depths coming in!

Lectures

Ocean Diver lectures are back on this week,7 pm lecture room 1.25 Cardiff University,
Main Building, Park Place.

 

News reports

I would really appreciate any contributions for the email – if you have any reports for me please ensure they are sent to me by Monday on anne.hudson@sourcesoftware.co.uk

Other News

You may have seen some adverts for a new series starting soon on BBC – if you want a sneak preview go to:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1078507/Pictured-The-incredible-secret-world-the-sea.html

Other dates for the diary

Cave Diving lecture

Just a reminder regarding the talk by Martin Farr on Tuesday 18^th November. If you want to go along, contact Mark – tickets £5 in advance or £7.50 on the door

RNLI Evening Cynon Valley SAC

Cynon Valley Sub Aqua club have scheduled for this coming Thursday (13th) a presentation by the RNLI at their clubhouse. The evening will kick off at 8-00pm for more details contact Howard Lewis on07767341259 or for direction contact howard or Mark Anders on 07966149554

Don’t forget our Christmas “do” 29^th November

Teresa is now collecting in the balance for the Christmas meal. Total cost is £26, most people have paid a deposit of £10 per person. Please make sure that if you require a vegetarian meal you have told her (so far there are no vegetarians on her list).

DOC conference 6^th December

Not too late to come along – check the BSAC website if you are interested!

You may have seen that NDAC are holding an extreme ironing world record attempt with proceeds going to the RNLI – anyone else daft enough to want to have a go? They’re holding this on 10^th January  - you have to provide your own board, iron and garment and it’ll cost you £20 (I have yet to find out if this includes entrance to the NDAC though!)

More information can be found at http://ndac.co.uk/extremeironing/ if anyone is interested let me know!

Website

All of 2009 tides now on the website!!!! As well as updates on recent dive reports Mark has now added some useful weather links for both Cardiff and some of our more visited haunts – if you’ll looking for weather try http://www.cardiffbsac.org/weather.php and for tides go to http://www.cardiffbsac.org/tides/ - please remember to use the website – the more hits we receive the better a profile we get – so feel free to browse as often as you like!

 BSAC emails – if you want to subscribe to the BSAC email bulletins – which include useful stuff as well as special offers – go to  www.bsac.org/page/93/bsac-talk.htm and sign up!!

Happy Diving 

 

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Anne

 

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