A showcase of what we’ve been up to recently
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Diving as an Ocean Diver with WUSAC
Anglesey Sept 25 Trip Report Just before term started the new 25/26 exec snuck away for a weekend trip to Anglesey Island in North Wales, a great chance to get to know each other better and to learn how a club trip is run. Our Training/Octopush officer Teo was sadly unable to attend, so our…
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Devon May 25 Trip report
Day – 1 Friday As usual, an early morning start with the 4-hour drive to Devon, laden with kit. We quickly grasped that the roads on the south coast were not so friendly to a small convoy of cars as we got to our first site, minus a bit of paint. It was about midday…
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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…