70TH DIVE AWARDS EVENING 2024
70TH DIVE AWARDS EVENING 2024 This year saw the club celebrate 70 years as an established BSAC diving club which made this year all the more special. The evening saw us back at Birkenhead...
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CLUB TRIP TO EGYPT SEPTEMBER 2024
CLUB TRIP TO EGYPT SEPTEMBER 2024 Members of the club organised a trip to Egypt in September 2024 and for some members it was their first ever Egypt experience. 11 members headed out for...
CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF BRANCH 5 WITH A TRIP TO ANGLESEY
CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF BRANCH 5 WITH A TRIP TO ANGLESEY As a club we felt we had to do something special to Mark the clubs 70th Anniversary so a trip to Anglesey was...
Plymouth Trip, August 2024
Trip Report by Terry Maloney Plymouth, August 2024 with In Deep Once again our trip to Plymouth with In Deep was upon us. But for this year’s trip we had a slight change of...
Isle of Man 3rd – 6th May 2024 trip report
After what had seemed to be a very long winter, the warmer weather started to arrive and we turned our attention to the new 2024 diving season. All of us had dived throughout the...
Day Out For Branch 5 at North West Emergency Recompression Unit
20 Plus members of Merseyside Sub Aqua Club Branch 5 got the chance to spend a couple of hours with the North West Emergency Training Team at their Centre in Birkenhead. Members firstly received...
Annual Awards Night – November 2023
The 23 dinner dance and awards night was held at The Leasowe Caste Hotel on the Wirral and as usual we had a great turnout from our members and a fun night was had...
Plymouth August 2023 – Trip Report
Diving with In Deep Diving Centre aboard Panther Skipper – Hugo ChallisDeck hands – Robin and Julian Well how time flies. No sooner had we stopped talking about our 2022 trip than the 2023...
Aqua Adrenaline – July 2023
Well, I joined Branch 5 to get wet, and this weekend certainly enabled that! Raising the profile of Branch 5, with the club marquee, and a RHIB, down at the Albert Dock. Many thanks...
Training Day – July 2023
A great day was had by all today at Eccy Delph for the ADM practice for the SD trainees. Also we had some OD training taking place. Weather wasn’t always on our side but...
Quiz Night – June 2023
Another good night had by all at this years Quiz Night. A good turn out considering its the summer and a lot of members are off on holiday. Plenty of brains were tested to...
Malta June 2023 – Trip Report
Another great trip to Malta this year, organised by the Major and diving with Divewise / Techwise. This year’s trip was spread over ten days with the main group heading out on the Monday...
Cocktail Night – May 2023
A great night had by all at the cocktail night. John and Wendy did a great job of mixing all kinds of very professional looking (and tasting) cocktails for lots of very enthusiastic members....
Three new branch CCR Divers
Three club members, Terry Maloney, Ray Cramer and Garry Bolland have just successfully qualified as JJ CCR divers. They completed their training at Techwise in Malta under the supervision of Alan Whitehead. Well done...
Cape Verde 2023 – Trip Report
Towards the end of 2022 Alistair Reynolds and The Major were cooking up a plan for an early trip abroad in 2023. Alistair suggested Cape Verde as an alternative to the Red Sea and...
Race Night – April 2023
The club held a very successful race night on 22nd April. Organised by our very own John Dunne, the turnout was quite limited and everyone who did come had a great time, plenty to...
Karting Night – Feb 2023
A great night was had by all on Saturday night at Team Sport in Liverpool. Big thanks to John Dunne for organising and wearing a very fetching Pink race suite. We had a really...
Expedition Planning Workshop – March 2023
Date: March 16th 2023 Instructor: Chris Wood Cost: No fee as this is a branch workshop This is a presentation for all diver grades but primarily aimed at prospective Dive Leaders and Advanced Divers...
Karting – February 25th
John Dunne is organising a karting night at TeamSport in Liverpool. The date is now confirmed as 25th February. The cost if £50 and details of the evening are below. If you are interested...
Tug of War 2023
Mersey Divers vs New Brighton Lifeboat Crew There was a great turn out again for the annual new years days tug of war competition between the Mersey Divers and the New Brighton Lifeboat Crew....
Dive Trip – Malta – June 2023
The Major will be running a diving holiday from the Divewise Dive Centre, St Julian Bay, Malta between Monday, 5th. June and Thursday, 15th June 2023, that is a 10 day period and the...