Our year begins straight after New Year. Hang-overs or not we like to get wet...at least that's our good attention before the New Year's Eve party!

We visit Black Park, which is between Uxbridge and Slough. This is a beautiful wooded area right next to the famous Pinewood Studios.

Some years we are lucky and the lake is covered in ice. On these occasions we get to practise "Roped Diver" techniques.

The picture here shows Jonathan Wymer on his return. Although it doesn't look it, the lake is frozen behind him

What do we see?

Hopefully lots and lots of colourful life.

There is the scope for a very diverse range of diving. Around the UK we are blessed with some excellent diving opportunities. A good number of these opportunities are a direct result of a couple of wars.

Man-made Reefs

A man-made reef is where ships or other man-made objects are sunk to create habitats for marine life. In the spring of 2004 HMS Scylla was sunk just off of Plymouth. It lies close to another well dived ship called the James Egan Layne. At the moment the Scylla is an excellent exploratory dive. You can swim the companion ways and enter the cabins; you can stand on the bridge and look out over the bow.

Our Club will regularly dive this site in the coming years to see how the ship will once again come alive with life.

Helping the Community

Our Club regularly takes other clubs such as the Scouts in to our pool for Try Dives. A Try Dive can be arranged for anybody who is interested. For the last two years we have also had a stand and "Try Dive" pool at the London Mela, Gunnesbury Park, Chiswick.

Diving Abroad

We don't always stay in this country, even some of the more hardened divers need to warm the bones now and again.

This year we have made several ventures abroad to places such as the Red Sea and Lanzarote.

Unusual Diving

Of course if we can't go diving or it's the middle of winter there's always the Submarine Escape Tower in Portsmouth. There's a lift to the top and lovely gin clear warm water down to 30m at the bottom.

...and finally what sort of a club would we be if we didn't know how to survive on the meagre rations of Pub grub and beer!