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Dockland`s Dive Club

Dive Club (English)

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Company description Welcome to docklands dive club. We are an active club with around 30 members of all ages and backgrounds based in London`s Docklands, but with members from all over the London area, in fact anyone who has an interest in diving is welcome to join us.
The Club organises a number of UK and foreign dive trips throughout the year, taking into account all levels of experience and interests. We also organise non-diving social activities to which you are welcome to bring along non-members.
Membership is just £60 per year payable monthly or annually. This covers the running of the Club and subsidises a number of events throughout the year.
Location description: Some of our trip reports:
Maldives
The holiday began from Gatwick with an 8-hour slog to Dubai, eased by wine and the comfort of Emirates. It was fun watching takeoff and landing via the onboard entertainment system. A bleary 3-hour stop in Dubai was followed by leg two down to Male, where the heat and humidity of the Maldives first hit us. We then took a sea plane up to Kuredu - a surprisingly stable flight and very smooth landing.
Early weather had several scattered showers, sometimes torrential, but the sun quickly dried the puddles. The weather was fantastic for the latter half of the trip, with lots of sun and a calm ocean.
The dive organisation on Kuredu, Prodivers, is very professionally run. The staff were always friendly and helpful. There were large fresh-water rinsing baths and personal racks for our kit. Tanks (with free Nitrox) were taken by the land crew to the boats, or to the end of the jetty for dives along Kuredu`s house reef. We had the same dive guide (Steve Hall) for the whole trip, and were able to dictate what sort of diving we wanted - ``everything!``. Sasha wanted to dive on Steve too.
It was clear that my 5mm wetsuit was too much for the 28-30 C temperatures, so a quick trip to the dive shop got me a 2mm shorty. The first dive was a gentle swim along the house reef. This began with a mask-replacement and out-of-air exercise, a good idea to ensure we were competent and comfortable in the water. We were all surprised how many lionfish were on the reef`s small wreck - later we counted 25 on a single night dive.
Diving was a mixture of boat dives, shore dives, day, twilight and night dives, wreck dives, and some great drift dives. Most of us had cameras and were able to get good souvenirs. The only diving rules were not to exceed 30 metres and 60 minutes (which we mainly adhered to). Usually we did 2 boat dives in the morning, with an optional afternoon or night dive around Kuredu. John, Sasha and I did our Night diver specialties, and Rob became a Nitrox diver.
We saw about everything we wanted during the various dives - moray eels, honeycomb morays, lobsters, eagle and sting rays, dozens of lionfish, a few Scorpionfish and Napoleans, lots of Moorish Idols and clown triggerfish (I love them!), thousands of red-tooth triggerfish, and millions of anchovies and glass fish. Highlights though have to be the turtles (at Kuredu Caves (``Turtle Airport``) and at the wrecks of Skipjack I and II), fantastic manta rays at Fushivaru Thilla, and sharks at Kuredu Express. We even saw a leopard shark resting in a small cave at Maa Giri. John decided that a head-on photo would be good and went in with his camera, giving the rest of us a great view as the terrified shark bolted out.
It was fantastic holiday! When`s the next one?

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Dockland`s Dive Club, London

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London
London
United Kingdom
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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