A happy group of Arden Divers and friends had a fabulous trip to Plymouth this weekend with In Deep Dive Centre. We were very excited to try out their blue shark snorkelling trip on the first day. This is a bit of a gamble that requires the weather to be…
We’re thrilled to now have a regular Tuesday evening pool slot at the newly opened Abbey Fields swimming pool in Kenilworth. You can find us there from 8pm each Tuesday evening, where we’ll be training our members and offering try dives to anyone interested in trying out SCUBA. We kicked…
I’ve been planning on finishing off my Advanced Diver qualification for a while now, but life, and the difficulty of finding an Advanced Instructor or accessing a RHIB, kept getting in the way. The great thing about being in a BSAC branch, though, is that you are part of Britain’s…
Arden Divers’ latest UK sea trip saw ten divers and one partner make the long journey down to Penzance, Cornwall, before catching the Scillonian III over to the beautiful Isles of Scilly. The trip got off to an eventful start, with the Saturday sailing cancelled thanks to high winds and…
Our first UK sea trip of the season saw ten Arden Divers and friends heading for the stunning island of Lundy. The adventure began a couple of days before when we learned that the compressor on the island had broken down. Angie spent a frantic afternoon trying to organise extra…
It was a chilly New Years Eve morning when eight Arden Divers and friends scraped the ice from their cars to set off to Stoney Cove for the final dive of the year. As I motored around the Coventry bypass the sun was rising and it was clear it was…
Meet Mary Arden, turtle. Back in June Arden Divers headed off to Sharm el Sheikh for a fabulous couple of weeks of diving. While we were there several of us, notably Sophie and Will, encountered a female hawksbill turtle on Ras Ghamilla. Both Sophie and Will being keen photographers a…
Intrepid members of Arden Divers, accompanied by a couple of friends from our neighbours at Solihull Sub Aqua Club, set out for a Santa themed Christmas dive at Stoney last Sunday. Sophie, Sarah, Luca and Chris had a great couple of dives, blessed with fantastic visibility. The famous Stoney Cove…
It was always my dream to organise a dedicated manta expedition, so there was much squealing when Arden Divers scuba friends, and buddies from further afield (16 intrepid adventurers), ventured on the diving trip of a lifetime on the MV Conte Max. Our mission: to see as many mantas as…
For our last planned UK trip of the season Arden Divers and friends headed north to explore the beautiful scenic reefs and abundant wildlife of St Abbs in south east Scotland. Weather is always a risk with UK diving, and certainly so when it’s the last weekend of September! A…
