NEWS / EVENTS

20 Plus members of Merseyside Sub Aqua Club Branch 5 got the chance to spend a couple of hours with ...

The 23 dinner dance and awards night was held at The Leasowe Caste Hotel on the Wirral and as usual ...

Diving with In Deep Diving Centre aboard Panther Skipper – Hugo ChallisDeck hands – Robin and Julian Well how time ...

Well, I joined Branch 5 to get wet, and this weekend certainly enabled that! Raising the profile of Branch 5, ...

A great day was had by all today at Eccy Delph for the ADM practice for the SD trainees. Also ...

Another good night had by all at this years Quiz Night. A good turn out considering its the summer and ...

Another great trip to Malta this year, organised by the Major and diving with Divewise / Techwise. This year’s trip ...

A great night had by all at the cocktail night. John and Wendy did a great job of mixing all ...

Three club members, Terry Maloney, Ray Cramer and Garry Bolland have just successfully qualified as JJ CCR divers. They completed ...

Towards the end of 2022 Alistair Reynolds and The Major were cooking up a plan for an early trip abroad ...

The club held a very successful race night on 22nd April. Organised by our very own John Dunne, the turnout ...

A great night was had by all on Saturday night at Team Sport in Liverpool. Big thanks to John Dunne ...

Date: March 16th 2023 Instructor: Chris Wood Cost: No fee as this is a branch workshop This is a presentation ...

John Dunne is organising a karting night at TeamSport in Liverpool. The date is now confirmed as 25th February. The ...

Mersey Divers vs New Brighton Lifeboat Crew There was a great turn out again for the annual new years days ...

The Major will be running a diving holiday from the Divewise Dive Centre, St Julian Bay, Malta between Monday, 5th ...

Date: TBC 2023Lead Instructor: Pete McGradyCost: £5 club contribution plus training packHard copy (printed) £35Digital copy £24.37Booking: To register, add ...

Date: 20 & 21 May 2023Lead Instructor: Alistair ReynoldsCost: £5 club contribution plus training packHard copy (printed) N/ADigital copy £24.37Booking: ...

Date: 22 April 2023Lead Instructor: Alistair ReynoldsCost: £5 club contributionNo materials requiredBooking: To register, add your name to the booking ...

Date: 15 & 16 April 2023Lead Instructor: Steve McElroyCost: £5 club contribution plus training packHard copy (printed) £78Digital copy £41.25Both ...

Date: 18 & 19 March 2023Lead Instructor: Alan JonesCost: £5 club contribution plus training packHard copy (printed) £52Digital copy £37.87Booking: ...

Date: 2 February 2023Lead Instructor: Chris WoodCost: £5 club contribution plus training packHard copy (printed) £28Digital copy £24.37Booking: To register, ...

Date: 29 January 2023Lead Instructor: Chris WoodCost: £5 club contribution plus training packHard copy (printed) £35Digital copy N/ABooking: To register, ...

Date: 28 January 2023Lead Instructor: Chris WoodCost: £5 club contribution plus training packHard copy (printed) £35Digital copy £24.37Booking: To register, ...

It was another very successful dinner dance and awards evening this this year, held yet again at Birkenhead Park Rugby ...

Ray Cramer is organising a trip to Holyhead on August 12th / 13th 2023. The primary dive site lies in ...

Ray Cramer is organising a trip to Abersoch on July 15th / 16th 2023. The dive sites lie offshore in ...

Ray Cramer is organising a trip to Fishguard on June 17th / 18th 2023. The dive sites lie offshore in ...

Ray Cramer is organising a trip to Holyhead on May 27th, 28th & 29th 2023. The primary dive site lies ...

Ray Cramer is organising a trip to Holyhead on 29th & 30th April 2023. The primary dive site lies in ...

Branch 5 team:Tony Fitzpatrick (trip organiser), Ian Bennett, Graeme Cooper, Tony McFarlane, Andy Parsons, Dave Roberts, Jan Ryan, Chris Woolerton ...

Diving with In Deep Diving Centre aboard Seeker Skipper – James BalouzaDeck hands – Robin & Liz Another August Bank ...

So, the Major put out the word that he was going to Malta and everyone was welcome. Having not been ...

Following on from this year's successful trip to the Isle of Man diving out of Port St. Mary, I have ...

Diving The plan is to take both club boats and 12 divers to the Farne islands for a weekend or ...

Fishguard : Platinum Jubilee Bank Holidays and weekend Having planned ahead, examined the tidal options for possible locations, booked the ...

Isle of Man trip with Discover Diving, Port St. MaryFriday 29th April to Monday 2nd May 2022 Some members of ...

Our chairman, along with Anthony Fitzpatrick kindly suggested and booked the campsite for the diving weekend with electric hook ups ...

Hi Folks, Diving season is well and truly upon us, we’ve had trips to the bay, the Isle of Man ...

Alistair Reynolds will be running part two of the in-house training course for instructors on Saturday 26th March. Details of ...

Ray Cramer is planning a trip to Holyhead in August this year for technically qualified divers only. This trip is ...

The Major is running a trip to Malta this year commencing Saturday 18th June and returning Saturday 25th June. The ...

Ray Cramer is planning a four day dive trip to Fishguard for the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend. The plan ...

Ray Cramer is organising a trip to Holyhead on 9th & 10th of April this year. This is for Dive ...

The branch finally managed to complete another one of the outstanding Skill Development Courses that had been postponed due to ...

Hello folks, That’s Christmas and New Year done, and hopefully now we’re getting back to normal. Just a quick update ...

Well folks, Christmas is nearly upon us and we are looking forward to safe and happy diving in the new ...

The Major will be running a Chartwork and Position Fixing course over the weekend of the 22nd/23rd January 2021. The ...

Bel and Katie will be hosting a special Christmas club night on 23rd December. Doors open as usual at 7pm ...

The Major is once again organising his late Christmas Bash. This years will be held at the Irby Mill on ...

The Chairman’s Last Post Hello everybody..........Well the time has almost come for me to slope off into the sunset having ...

It was another very successful dinner dance and awards evening this this year, held again at Birkenhead Park Rugby Club ...

Boat Handling Course - Informative and Thrilling Day 1: Information Overload What do you do at the weekend? Maybe go ...

Alistair Reynolds is looking to run an in-house training course in the near future for instructors who have completed an ...

Hello everybody................Just a quick note following last week’s committee meeting. Firstly, it was resolved to reduce the towing levy from ...

Branch 5 helped out last Sunday by providing three safety boats for this years Across the Mersey Swim. Both Club ...

Hello everybody.......................It only seems like yesterday that I was talking about the beginning of the diving season and here we ...

So August Bank Holiday came around again and that meant that a group of twelve divers from the branch were ...

After having our original trip to Scapa Flow cancelled the day before we left in 2020 and deciding not to ...

On the 1st of August this year the Mersey Divers Team took part in the Yorkshire Classic Tough Mudder to ...

This week the club took delivery of its new 6.5m Humber RHIB. Equipped with a with a Suzuki 175 four ...

Hello everybody...............Well D Day (19th. July 2021) arrived last Monday which means that the club house can now resume as ...

Hello everybody.................The Covid virus is still taking its toll on diving opportunities, particularly in respect of foreign travel. However, whilst ...

This trip was originally planned by Ray Cramer to be a weekend of technical diving with In Deep based in ...

So, Dave Edwards decided we needed a trip to get the new year going, so, he sent out the message ...

Hello everybody...............The big news of the day is that the club has recently received a second government grant for just ...

Hello everybody...............Following last night’s committee meeting I thought I would give you a quick update over the reopening of the ...

After a miserable year for diving trips, with so many being cancelled or postponed, but Tony Fitz finally managed to ...

So Summer Bank Holiday was looming on the horizon and initially, it looked as though what is fast turning into ...

Back in October 2019, one of our members, Jeff Jones advertised a couple of weekend trips to Eyemouth for 2020 ...

Last week our very own Ray Cramer added a very interesting lecture on Bathymetry to the ongoing series of lockdown ...

With the club being shutdown at present because of Covid 19 our training team have taken to the internet to ...

Chairman's Letter April 2020 Hello everybody as we are about to enter our second week of Corona isolation. I know ...

Sunday, 29 March 2020 from 08:00-17:00 Port Dinorwic, Menai Straits, North Wales A gathering of Dive Ribs from around the ...

Nitrox Gas Blender / Mixed Gas Blender SDC Alistair Reynolds ran another excellent, and well attended Gas Blending SDC last ...

Chairman's Letter - March 2020 Here we are almost at the beginning of March and the foul weather shows no ...

Chairman’s Letter - January 2020 Here we are again at the beginning of yet another diving year, which in my ...

An updated version of the club constitution for 2019 has now been produced containing the amendments voted through at this ...

Towards the end of 2018, Mark Williams suggested that we could make a trip to Lundy on the North Devon ...

Chairman’s Letter – September 2019 Here we are folks approaching the end of another diving season and for sure the ...

‘Red Sea diving, here we come!’ 23rd August 2019 – at last….the long anticipated day had arrived! Branch 5 – ...

The November Quiz night was another fantastic success. A great time had by all and another late night. But best ...

Date: 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2020 (August Bank Holiday)Boat: Seeker (In Deep Diver Centre)Min Quals: SD with 10+ dives ...

It was the Friday before August Bank Holiday 2019 and ten members of the branch made their way South for ...

Chairman’s Letter Hello Again Folks..........News just off the press is that the Club Annual Dinner will be on Saturday, 26th ...

As part of this years river festival Branch 5 sent two boats and a tug of war team down to ...

Chairman's Letter Hello Again Folks.....Let me move straight on with further ado to the most pressing matter that is Dave ...

BSAC Automated External Defibrillator SDC This club night Chris Woods again ran the excellent AED course for first timers and ...

BSAC First Aid for Divers SDC Another very enjoyable course run by Chris Woods this weekend with the help of ...

BSAC Oxygen Administration SDC - March 2019 Another successful Oxygen Admin SDC was run by Chris Woods this weekend, ably ...

Quiz and Curry EveningMarch 2nd 2019 This years early Easter quiz and curry evening was an amazing success. A big ...

Derbent & Cartagena Weekend Date: 19th July to 21st July 2019Trip Manager: John Rice The Derbent is at 45m so ...

Farne Islands Weekend Date: 12th July to 14th July 2019Trip Manager: John Rice Returning to Springhill Farm Pods and chalets ...

Medes Islands Expedition 29th June to 6th July 2019Staying with Fleet Dive, Rosas. Flying out from Manchester to Girona for ...

M2 Bank Holiday Weekend Trip 4th May to 6th May 2019 An opportunity to dive one of the very best ...

Chartwork and Position Fixing SDCSaturday 11th and Sunday 12th May 2019 By popular demand there will be another running of ...

Stoney Cove Progression Diving - January 2019 A group of new Branch 5 sports divers went off to Stoney Cove ...

Chairman's Letter Happy New Year everybody and welcome to the start of yet another year of diving with Branch 5; ...

Red Sea Trip Date: 23rd to 30th August 2019Organiser: Tony Fitz Leaving from Manchester Airport on 23rd August and flying ...

Nautical Archaeology Society Archaeological Field School 7th - 17th June 2019 The Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS), the Royal Commission on ...