Welcome To The Med
A Year In The Life Of A Diver – Mr Geoff Patch
Welcome All, These days, our former DO, Geoff (as above), is almost a one-man dive club. He has sent the following summary of his year: For those interested, short videos of my adventures through 2019 can be accessed via my YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClr5huKQCFK5kGlb_lTNe1w?view_as=subscriber. Looking back on 2019, it has been quite an active year for me […]
Lost Exile – UK Style
Welcome All, Unfortunately, there was no diving last weekend. Wind, rain and high seas conspired to give us a lie-in. There was so much rain in fact, that we could almost have launched the boat in the club car-park. Let’s hope for better this coming Friday.——————————-As expected, the 406 exiles convened in London and I’m […]
Bike Recovery RSA
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BSAC 406 et al – BSAC 406 Exiles & Michael in South Africa
Welcome All, There was a slight problem with the email last week with a couple of Gmail batches bouncing back at me for some reason. I re-sent using Hotmail the following day, but I apologize if anyone got the email twice. Whether the problem will recur this week, I’ll discover in about twenty minutes when […]
Welcome 2020
Welcome All, As is my habit with the last email of the old year (or sometimes the first email of the new one), this is a look-back of the twelve months just gone:Counting the dives, there weren’t so many as we sometimes do. Compared to last year, we lost rather more weekends to the weather […]
A Review of 2019
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Merry Christmas From BSAC 406
Welcome All, Again, no diving last weekend as we were short on bodies due to illness and people being away. However, we’ll keep plugging and as soon as we get a viable number and good weather, we’ll be back out there.Congratulations to Saleem for passing his open-water course. He is naturally keen to get diving […]
Richard & Sharon Farewells
.Welcome All, As predicted, the weather precluded any diving last weekend, so we all had a lie-in, which is not such a bad option every once in a while. Richard has asked me to print the following:Sharon and I would like to shout out a huge thanks to everyone for the wonderful send-off last Tuesday […]
Mariam Express Rays
Welcome All, I hope you all had a good National Day 2nd December marks the date, now 48 years ago when Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid settled their differences and brought the UAE into existence, ending the period of the Trucial States. Not entirely coincidentally, this was the time when BSAC 406 was formed, initially […]