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Divers find gun under Ferry Bridge
UE Dive Team’s plan this Thursday was to dive under Ferry Bridge, Portland’s only road link to the mainland, to collect some essential data and photographs. The idea being to dive it on “slack” where the tidal flow comes to a halt for about three quarters of an hour giving us a relatively long window [...]
Diving Portland in February
We thought we’d dive the harbour and check out “visibility” while getting some more winter practice as the country braced itself for a major freeze. Visibility underwater is generally described in ‘horizontal’ distance where another submerged object can first (or last!) be seen. During the winter months, we have some really ‘clear spells’ around Portland [...]
Diving the Tides of Baly Bay
With its varying tides and almost constant water movement, Portland is an ideal spot for “drift diving,” the coolest magic carpet ride any diver can hope for. Right in the middle of the winter with gusts now down to 30 mph, I’m out East of Portland Harbour — this time in Balaclava Bay (or Baly [...]
Diving Portland’s Outer Breakwater
With 40 mile gusts battering Chesil Beach, I leave Underwater Explorers to get the rare opportunity to dive the eastern waters of Portland breakwater. True to its name and purpose, this wall of stone keeps the worst of the wind and waves away either side. Not a milk-pond perhaps, but close. Even when calm, the [...]
I’m pool diving on Portland!
Thanks to an advance reservation made by the UE Dive Team, we were booked for the Osprey Leisure Centre around the corner this Saturday. We can still ‘dive’ while dodging some challenging winds and a questionable forecast outdoors. A pool is like a diver’s indoor climbing wall. Indeed, scuba diving’s just like rock climbing, surfing [...]
Winter Diving, Portland, Dorset
February is traditionally the month where sea water temperature drops to its lowest around the British Isles. Donned in a membrane “dry suit” that keeps the water out and layers of thermal protection underneath, our dives this week were on two wrecks in Portland Harbour. A spell of calm weather did us the favour of [...]