We are Oban based divers and use our RIB around the Oban area and elsewhere around Scotland. The site is basically just a tatser of what we are up to and is usually updated regularly to stay current. We like to go diving without a formal club structure and more importantly without the fees and politics you nearly always get within even a good club. The advantage of this is that we can go anywhere, anytime, cheaply and without politics and argument getting in the way, usually! We dive just about anywhere from the best scenic dives the country has to offer to deep wrecks on trimix and just about everything and anything in between. Adventurous and interesting diving is what we are interested in, Conger Alley or Dunollie Point are specifically the types of dives we avoid in favour of much, much better. This can mean demanding diving or just out of the way and unusual places off the beaten track. Our main interest is wrecks but we venture lots of places other than the ``norm``. We dive around Argyll locally mostly but we have started to go much further afield. See the gallery page for what we have been up to in the past. Massive experience or qualification level is not essential as we dive all types and levels of diving but you do need to be self sufficient, have your own kit and possess a fairly good sense of humour to put up with the banter on the boat! Above all we go out to have fun and a good day out, after all is this not the point? The diving on any particular day is always based on the experience of the folk in the boat or the folk in the boat will be tailored to the dive, whichever is more convenient on the day. All that be guaranteed is that most weeks we will be out at least once and quite often much more,especially in the summer months. We occasionally find something new or dive places that are rarely or never dived from the odd unusual wreck or just an out of the way scenic site. The diving in the area is very interesting with outstanding scenery and challenging waters giving fabulous diving locations. The strong tidal streams and many islands plus the wartime history of Argyll have given rise to many shipwrecks and natural features which attract divers from all over the world. We are normally out every weekend except when weather conditions do not allow it. In summer some evening diving is undertaken when the weather is nice and daylight hours are long. Being so close to the sea has its advantages as the Breda, Madam Alice, Hispania and many other well known wrecks are our local dives. The diving undertaken by us does range widely from scallop hunting to 60m wrecks but over 90% of it is at less than 30m and well within the range of any competent sport diver. In recent years competency has become more welcome than people with lots of certification cards after some bad experiences with divers that, on paper, were highly qualified and experienced. We are both qualified within the various agencies such as PADI, SSAC and BSAC plus others as required for specialist areas like Boats, Trimix and Gas blending. We are pretty much self sufficient for everything these days and do all our own blending, servicing, maintenance and repairs as well as organise and carry out all our diving. We had always been active club members and have only branched out on our own recently after moving to Oban. In the recent past we have organised and/or dove with several other branches up and down the country and are keen to continue doing this both in Oban and elsewhere.

BREDA The Breda is probably one of the most dived wrecks in the country, few divers don`t have this wreck written up in their logbook somewhere. It is not hard to understand why as despite the massive numbers of divers that can be attracted to her in the summer she is well sheltered from most winds and sits upright and mostly intact on the seabed in reasonable depths. She has been called the James Eagan Lane of the North and that is true only in that she was a wartime wreck, the Eagan Lane is much more broken up and less interesting. The holds are still giving up interesting artifacts to see as people dig around in them. The wreck is usually bouyed bow and stern with sometimes one around the engine room as well. This engine room has been looking pretty ropy for the past few years and is probably best avoided until it collapses. Areas around here that were full of motorcycles are now inaccessible and will in all likelihood be never seen again. Other than that she is pretty sound and is suitable for just about anyone and is used by lots of clubs as the first wreck dive for their trainees. Night dives are particularly good as the life can be very interesting and abundant and tends to follow you round the wreck. MADAM ALICE The Madam Alice is one of the more demanding dives in the area, as she is not the easiest of wrecks to find or dive. Good transits or GPS marks are needed to find her and putting more than a couple of divers on her at a time is pretty much a waste of time as after the first pair have stirred up the viz the rest won`t see anything. She has probably the most dived seabed in the area surrounding her as lots of shots have missed the wreck, the original HMS Vicinity! The silt coming out of Loch Etive has been gradually burying the wreck and once stirred up makes viz zero, even reading gauges can be impossible. Having said that she is definitely worth diving if the depth of 42m and the possiblity of very bad viz can be coped with, she is one of the few wrecks near Oban that a dig around in can produce interesting items. I have bouyed this wreck in the past but the ferry and other divers keeping removing it. THESIS The Thesis is one of the most photogenic wrecks in the area, in the summer when sunlight streams down through the open ribs of the bow there is hardly a prettier shipwreck around. The bow is normally bouyed at around 16m or so but the wreck is fairly easy to find it it is not. LABRADOR Probably the remotest and difficult to reach wreck in the area but easily the most spectactular. Sits in large bits smashed all round McKenzies rock 25 mls west of Iona. Viz is normally 30m+ and although smashed up is one of the most impressive dives I have ever done. Definitely one to go for if you ever get the chance.