St Abbs – Brilliant trip, great diving, fantastic group of divers

What a fantastic weekend! Friday afternoon 15 of Sub-Mission Dive Club headed up to St Abbs for a weekend of diving, laughter and meeting new buddies. Staying in 2 big farm houses, the group had fantastic accommodation for the weekend with sea views and in a peaceful, secluded location.

 

Saturday morning the group made their way to the harbour at St Abbs and were met by our expert skipper, Peter Gibson. The combination of Peter and his boat Selkie, was the perfect combination for our group of novice coastal divers on their first dive of the weekend. After the first dive, expressions of apprehension and anticipation were replaced with relief and excitement. Everyone chattering about how good the dive was and the life that they spotted underwater.

Marine life was in abundance once again with plenty to see from anemones, dead men’s fingers, brittle stars and sun stars. Pollock, wrasse, lobster, crabs, flat fish, scorpion fish, blennies and of course Katy was on the look out for those ‘not so illusive’ nudibranchs. Even a seal was spotted on the surface and couldn’t be dissuaded from following the group even by Stefan’s squeals about cramp!

The water temperature varied between 11 and 13 degrees with good visibility. Peter managed to avoid currents for the majority of the weekend and we got to see some great sites with plenty of variety from kelp gardens, rock gullies to an astounding wreck.

We had some great food and were impressed by the culinary skills of the group, especially Ant who made a cracking Jamaican curry.

So Sunday afternoon arrived all too soon and people began to start their journeys home, rich in memories of fantastic diving, a great weekend and with a new group of friends and diving buddies.