Following Jacqui’s unfortunate requirement for the attention of a helicopter crew and recompression chamber she wrote an account of the experience which has been printed in April’s Scuba magazine.  A number of valuable lessons were learnt and it is good…

After over 10 years of the old format our website has now been updated – we hope you like the new look.   Hopefully it will be just as easy to navigate around and visitors will be able to see…

Andrew is now the proud owner of a Suunto Vyper Air with transmitter after an email that he sent to Scuba magazine was awarded the Scuba Chat Star Letter!  His email, in response to a comment in Scuba Bloke, was…

Andrew & I had been invited by the Social Secretary of the Arun Yacht Club (AYC) to give a talk on diving last year.  They see us going down river and thought it would be interesting to know why we…

About 25 members (including our youngest member Zoe, who slept all through the evening!) met on Friday evening (17 January) at  Bellini’s for another enjoyable meal.  Plenty of food, drink and chat and discussion re the diving planned for 2014.  Thanks…

Following the purchase of a portable defibrillator for the boat as part of the grant received from the Sport England Lottery fund, Alan Kennedy has booked 2 dates in January 2014 for training sessions on the equipment combined with a CPR refresher. All…

On 17 June we received an urgent email from the marina asking if we could help another customer who had a rope badly fouling his starboard prop.  The following Saturday therefore saw the intrepid Banstead Divers Rapid Response Team (Andrew,…

Emily (daughter of Colin & Dani) was one of three winners in a recent “Name our Characters” competition run by BSAC Kidz. She named  the seal ‘Oscar’ because his whiskers were funny! Here’s a picture of Emily wearing her prize of…

To compliment my boat handling and navigation courses I decided that it would be useful to understand the basics of marine radio communications. Joining the recent course run by the Arun Yacht Club I was joined by a mixture of…

  On Friday 3 May 2013, a call was received from Emma at Littlehampton Marina asking for urgent assistance.  A customer had launched his boat without the bung in.  The hull had completely filled with water and it had sunk…