A showcase of what we’ve been up to recently
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Malta 2025 Trip Report
A breakdown of our yearly international trip, this time heading to Malta 🎉 Day 0 (Saturday) As soon as uni broke up for Easter, we headed straight to Malta for five days of diving! Some of us flew from Gatwick and had some essential pre-flight pints at spoons. Once at the gate, we naturally had…
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History of HMS Maori: an Essay by Sam Parker
HMS Maori was one of the 16 tribal class built for the Royal Navy just before the breakout of the second world war
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Sam’s Boiler Lecture
WUSAC’s most anticipated social event of term 2, maybe even the year, took place on Wednesday 5th of March, Sam Parker delivered a thrilling recollection about naval history, boiler design and various resources for finding out and identifying broken up wrecks. A brief history of Boilers in Ships Ordered during the war of 1812 and…
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Anglesey February 25
We set off early on Friday, kit and divers split between 3 cars. Sam’s decision to add the emergency rope and O2 kit to the car last minute was not popular. We drove straight to our first dive site, Porth y Castell on the south side of Holy island, a relatively non-tidal and sheltered site.…
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Ocean Diver Part 2 Trip Report
Our club took on 19 Ocean Diver trainees in term 1! We planned to get them qualified in two groups, over two weekends in November. This is part 2 of the Ocean Diver Trip Report. Days Leading up to the Trip Trip two was to take place in Pembrokeshire again, but Storm Burt had other…
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Ocean Diver Pembrokeshire Trip
We had a particularly large cohort of new ocean divers this term – 19 to be exact. Two trips were ran to accommodate everyone, the first to one of our favourite shore diving locations, the coast of Pembrokeshire in South-West Wales. Day 0 – Thursday Afternoon We all slowly gathered in our beautifully tidied kitroom…
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Farne Islands 2024 Trip Report
Day 0 – 01/11/2024 Departing from the Sports hub at approx 14:30 to arrive at our accommodation in Lindisfarne (20 minutes from the harbour) by 20:30, giving us plenty of time for some card games, a quick trip to the pub for some of the group and some slightly questionable dinner choices by a few…
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Pembrokeshire July 2024 Trip Report
We were joined by members of Liverpool University Sub Aqua Club, for a total of 9, for an incredible weekend of shore diving in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. Day 1 As it turns out, it’s a long drive to Pembrokeshire… 🥴 Everyone arrived in one piece (except for one instructor’s drysuit) at the first site of…
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What can I do once I’m qualified? – Anglesey June 2024 Trip Report
You can come on one of our amazing WUSAC fun diving trips! WUSAC is associated with many other local and not so local BSAC clubs, so a weekend away diving is often just a message away. This past weekend four of our distinguished WUSAC members made their way to Anglesey island in north Wales for…
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Go Karting Social May 2024
WUSAC takes to the track at Teamsport Coventry for some indoor gokarting followed by the Phantom Coach. Everyone had a great time on Wednesday 🏎. Some very impressive lap times were set. To hear more about our socials, join our Whatsapp group by using the contact form
