• The club AGM was held on the 27th Of February 19:45ish in the usual classroom. See under "about us" who is part of the new committee
• As usual we have been continuing with theory for OW lessons for the Ipswich School students and after completing the pool training have been ongoing on Mondays prior to hopefully finish the qualification over the summer months.
• Due to the cancellation of our trip to Plymouth last year it was rescheduled for 22-23 June with ScyllaReefdive charter. This a lovely place for diving and hopefully we will be able to get out to one of the deeper reefs a bit offshore the coastline along with some of the more famous wrecks that are in abundance. This year we managed to get down to Plymouth, loading up the boat and going out towards the divesite when the cooling on the engine failed and we had to be towed to an anchoring spot to sort out the problem before limping back to port and end of diving for that weekend as well. New date was arranged for 1-3 June 2014 (4th time lucky).
• With our new open water divers we organised diving off Swanage as a starter with Kyarra diving who are providing a shuttle service to the diving fraternity so that we do not need to book whole boat, but just the numbers we need. However we need to create our own user with them to log in and look at availability. Also contact Ronny Fossberg for booking of diving in Swanage as he is already a user and can block book when dates and numbers and dives to be done have been sorted. It is possible to do it in one day to save on accomodation and food, but it is so much more relaxing if we sort out a weekend.
• First Swanage trip was on the weekend 10-12th of May. 9 people took part and we stayed at the Auberge Bunkhouse close to the Pier. We got some good dives under the pier and a marvellous drift dive on the old scallop drift. Unfortunately the little trawler Fleur de Lys are more or less gone so that wreck is a waste of time as we found out on the last dive.
• The planned dive trip to Gozo did not attract great interest, but a few of us went the last July and experienced fabulous and varied diving; both shore and rib. Our apartment in the centre of Marsalforn was a 5 minutes walk from the Atlantis Dive centre.
• On the weekend 9-11of August a large group of people went to Breck Farm for camping and shore diving, a campsite near Weyborne, diving off the North Norfolk coast visiting the wrecks of Vera and Rosalie. They are lovely shallow and accessible wrecks (after some walking on the gravel beach and swim out). The camping bit was probably the most successful part of the trip as some of us suffered from fatiguities trying to swim out to the wrecks only to give up due to out of breath. Only the old gnarly ones managed the ordeal of not being 100% on the slack tide.