🤿 Andrew Woods, member of @LondonDiver (our first branch!), shares the club’s journey rising to the challenges of Covid, compressor failure and boat engine breakdowns with an innovative crowdfunding campaign and fantastic resourcefulness!
https://t.co/LjdeqInOdZ
Had a chilly day at #StoneyCove for the annual @LondonDiver#Christmas#scuba dive. The water was warmer than the air temperature, which wasn't saying much. Great day!
⚓️ Three ‘exceptionally rare’ shipwrecks off the Dorset Coast and the Isle of Wight have been granted the highest level of protection on the advice of Historic England. https://t.co/WFVi7fpWXQ
🌹 It's been 40 years since the hull of the Mary Rose was lifted to the surface in 1982.
🌊 Yesterday, 500 roses were cast into the water above the wreck site, to commemorate the lives of the 500 men who died during the ship's sinking & the 500 divers who helped in her recovery.
⚓️ 40 years ago, the wreck of Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose finally broke the surface of the Solent after 400 years underwater.
👉This remarkable underwater archaeological achievement is being marked with 3 days of events in Portsmouth. https://t.co/9T2EmEwG2Y
🎥 Check out one of our favourite videos from the archive - divers from BSAC's first ever branch, London No.1, exploring the underwater world all the way back in 1956! https://t.co/ZleEfIY9AI
🙌 Members of Lowestoft SAC are rising to a new ‘2022 Challenge’ in a bid to get back to their pre-Covid dive fitness levels.
👉 Has your club got any challenges going this year? https://t.co/BtlgUPZkeH
🤿 It's essential for divers to keep practicing their diving skills, especially rescue skills, so that they become second nature - you never know when they might be needed.
📸: https://t.co/wYINE2O0LW
🩺 The UK Diving Medical Committee (UKDMC) has advised that there are significant changes to their guidance regarding return to diving following Covid-19 infection. Find out the latest on the updates here: https://t.co/oIMISXBGX3
🤿 We might be counting down the last few days of the year, but that's no reason to stop diving!
👇 Plymouth Sound Divers enjoying an evening dive in the dark on one of the shortest days of the year.
Long-standing club member and @RNLI volunteer Jim Moroney highlighted an ongoing appeal to fund a new Tower Lifeboat Station. With strong links between divers and the RNLI, please consider supporting the appeal here: https://t.co/XVNIWmuAHY
📖 A new practical (and bitesized!) guide aimed at Sports Divers and above has been launched to help divers who want to dive with a purpose and organise small diving projects.
👉 BSAC Heritage Advisor Jane Maddocks, who is behind the guide, tells us more: https://t.co/U8LiREkQCr