Author: paul Gorse-Burton

  • New Year’s Day

    Here are some photos from our traditional New Year’s Day dive in Hinksey Lake, Oxford. Not renowned as a hotspot for divers (ahem), but there are the odd few items of interest, and some crayfish.

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    Please also read the dive report

  • Sound of Mull

    Here are some photos from our trip to Scotland to dive the Sound of Mull – one of the best places to dive in the World, and certainly within the UK.

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    Please also read the trip report

  • St Abbs

    Here are some photos from our trip to St Abbs and Eymouth, Scotland.

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    Please also read the trip report

  • Alex September ’08 Expedition

    Here are some photos from our trip to Weymouth to dive on and map our adopted wreck, the Alex van Opstal.

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    Please also read the trip report  and more on the Alex Project

  • Porthkerris

    Here are some photos from our diving trip to Porthkerris in Cornwall.

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    Please also read the trip report

  • Falmouth

    Here are some photos from our diving trip to Falmouth Cornwall.

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    Please also read the trip report

  • Training and Diving

    Various pictures from our 2006 diving trips around the UK and abroad.

  • Lundy

    Here are some photos from our 2002 diving trip to Lundy Island, off the North Devon coast.

    On this trip, we were diving from an 8m Starfish.

  • An ex-Chairman Remembers Oxford BSAC

    One aspect of the diving club when I joined was the awe in which Mick Phipps was held as Chairman. I have found that it is a very real part of English (maybe British) life that the man in the street often is a member of some club or other. It seems to be in his make up to give far more loyalty, faith, following, deep attention, to that pastime or club that any other aspect of his life (almost).

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  • Valentine Tanks

    I was invited on a dive from Swanage to dive the Valentine tanks, these were part of the D-Day landing vehicles. There is plenty of info on the net regarding these tanks. We left the pier and headed round and were soon on the shot.

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