Poseidon's Parlour

Well, my new Mares XR Extreme Undersuit  arrived. I sent a buddy to collect it for me from Aquatron . I had planned to dive in it slightly ...

It had been almost a year since the Kingmaker dived. I broke him back when we were in Egypt last year on a liveaboard.  I mean, I say ...

So I'm taking a soon to be newly qualified ScotSAC to dive at Kinlochbervie in the far north-west of Scotland. At the start of the nigh...

With a number of Eastwood Divers divers' undertaking the ScotSAC Instructor Course at the end of March, we have a number of trainee i...

There is something enormously satisfying when a training dive with a trainee you give a brief and it all goes to plan, even down to the last...

Recently, myself and some others completed the classroom session of the Seasearch course. Today, we would head to Loch Fyne to dive some s...

When Pitbull penned his little ditty, I'm not entirely sure he knew it would be used on the shore of Gare Loch as a pre-dive anthem...

I'm not entirely Bewitched were correct when they decided to blame the weatherman , but I had set aside this day as day when I'd tak...

I was had convinced Jester and the Big Easy that Conger Alley would offer us a great location for a night dive. I can't explain why, I...

Instructing when everything is brilliant is quite good fun and somewhat rewarding. However, it's when things are going wrong that you...

When teaching, some dives stick out way more than others. The ones you remember tend to be when something goes wrong. We don't tend to r...

A trip to Twin Piers  is never the most inspiring dive, but as a ScotSAC Instructor I had agreed to help with club training. I had experien...

I'm often asked if I'd be prepared to take people on a night dive. My general feeling is that they think it's a more exciting wa...

The gap between Christmas and New Year is a sacred time when divers who: a: wish to off gas excess turkey & trimmings b: are full of ...

Apeks RK3 Despite sounding a little like a droid from a Star Wars film and also being the actual name of a blaster used by the Galactic ...

After an overnight at the side of Loch Creran , a group of us gathered alongside our new friend Terry Griffiths to dive the Queenie Reef . ...

When Beethoven wrote his Moonlight Sonata , it was probably beyond even his imagination that it would be whizzing round my head when around...

With Christmas holidays fast approaching I took the decision that I could sleep later in the week and so embarked on 4 dives over three s...

I'm not depth junkie, although those who only ever dive to 20m say that I am. Meanwhile those who dive regularly below 50m just laugh a...

Diving with the Big Easy is always a straightforward affair. You kit up, go into the water and then you dive. Tonight was no different. Exce...