Hope Cove 2020
A small group of divers headed down to the south coast to give both boats a run and catch some scallops. Both boats were OK apart from some small faults that were quickly fixed. Scallops were abundant and the trip was successful.
Trip reports
Greece 2020
It’s been ages since we could get in the water, I can’t even go to Stoney, so as soon as some restrictions were lifted I checked around to see what diving we could do. I found an old leaflet from Triton dive centre in Alonissos, where at least we could…
Farne Islands 2020
Seven Stratford Divers had the most fantastic time diving around the Farne Islands this July. The accursed Covid situation had threatened to scupper the trip but thankfully we and the Dive Centre were able to manoeuvre safely through the restrictions and the trip went ahead successfully. The only downside was…
Mince pie dive 2019
In the spirit of optimism and courage in adversity it behoves Stratford Dive Club to finish each year off with the Annual Mince Pie Dive—a day of diving and face stuffing in equal measure. This year, despite monsoon conditions we had the best turnout we have ever had for this…
Lundy seals
Once again Stratford Divers headed off to Lundy in June for a fabulous trip of sunshine and seals, organised by Angie. Rather than a lot of words, here’s the trip report in the form of a video
The return to St Abbs
We had such a great time last year I decided to run the trip again this year and it didn’t disappoint. I booked 4 days diving with DiveStay at Eyemouth. One of the great things about this company is that they own the accommodation as well as the boat so…
St Abbs, 2018
In July twelve Stratford Divers travelled north to dive the iconic dive sites around St Abbs. For those not familiar with the area, St Abbs is on the East coast of Scotland, south of the Firth of Forth and less than 10 miles north of the border. I hadn’t dived…
Mince pie dive 2018
Hardy members of Stratford Dive Club enjoyed our Christmas bash at Stoney Cove last Wednesday, December 19th. The weather was kind to us, dry, mild and sunny—eventually. As we all gathered in the car park to discuss dive plans, it soon became apparent that between us we had rather overdone…
Scilly, the hard way
Well actually, the hardboat way. Which some might say is the easy way. And I might even agree with them. The club’s traditional RIB trip to the Isles of Scilly isn’t the only way to dive this wonderful UK destination and Sophie and I decided we would explore the alternative—a…
Red Sea, September 2017
Hillary, Miles, Richard, Stan, Peter, Graham, Russel, Jim, David, Sally, Geoff, Joules, Paul, Jon, Jeanie, Bondie, Brett and myself, all met outside the leisure centre to wait for a coach which unbeknown to us was to arrive 45 minutes late. But due to Hillary’s awesome planning skills we still made…