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BSAC 130 Dive Trips: 2010
Our new(ish) 6.5m RIB will be going to Weymouth for the first time. Portland and Weymouth offer an excellent range of diving, plenty of sheltered sites and great facilities with the opportunity to come in for lunch and air fills. Best of all we are in the superb new Dean and Readyhoff Marina: secure, easy to launch and very posh!
Besides Weymouth, we have some great trips elsewhere: Plymouth, Angelsey, Lyme Regis, West Wales and Swanage. Our week long trips take some of the UK's best diving in Skye and Scillies, as well as trips to France and (hopefully) the Red Sea.
We also have an excellent range of courses including all the diver grades, oxygen admin and boat handling.
For full details, click here to download the pdf Dive Calendar
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Recent Trip Reports
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Weymouth 6/3/2010
Tropical, sun-drenched, sizzling – three words that you usually wouldn’t associate with UK diving in early March. Holborn Divers first UK trip of the season sadly proved that they’re still not.
Holborn’s hardiest headed down to Weymouth for the season starter – the bow section of the Black Hawk, a 7,000 ton American liberty ship torpedoed in 1944 with a maximum depth of 16 meters.
Under leaden skies we embarked from Castletown and headed the 10 miles to the site of the wreck. The seas were slight, and even with a chilly, northerly wind spirits were high.
Surprisingly, there were three dive boats already on the site when we arrived – an impressive show of like-mindedness by the local charter boat skippers.
A pre-dive hot chocolate warmed the fingers before the cold, wet stuff began. The water temperature was a positively un-tropical 5˚C, a firm reminder that the dive season had officially begun.
Visibility was rather poor at around 2-3 meters. The wreck itself is very badly broken up – a combination of a) being hit by a torpedo b) being blown up in 1967 to make way for a pipeline.
With the lack of vis. and the fragmented nature of the wreck it was difficult work out which bits of the ship you were looking at.
Amongst the twisted metal, there were various recognisable parts of the ships structure but on the on whole it was difficult to make out.
It was a very poor show from our fishy friends: a couple of crabs (a common crab and a spider crab) and a sluggish tiddler of unknown species (to me anyway).
We returned to the RIB after a pleasant but wintery 40mins.
The merry faces of the rest of the Holborn crew were already back on the boat looking distinctly less-warm than they had prior to the dive.
Talk of a second dive was quickly superseded by talk of warm fire places and local ales.
Roll on the summer and balmy water temperatures …
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