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28 & 29 January 2012 - Gildenburgh
Congratulations to Shane, Paul, Roy and Simon for qualifying as Open Water Divers at the weekend. You all did really well, especially in the cold! Well done and many thanks to Duncan and Mick for your help and to Andy for doing surface cover all weekend.
Our next weekend is at Stoney Cove on 24 & 25 March, by which it should have warmed up! Let us know if you would like to come along.
17 & 18 December - Gildenburgh
Congratulations to Leo and Michael for qualifying as Open Water Divers and to David for Advanced Open Water and Steve for Photography Speciality. Well done and good work on braving the cold! Many thanks to Dave, Mike and Eddie for your help.
CSS Christmas Party - 10 December 2011
Thank you everyone for making the Christmas party such a success! 98 of us partied in style and had a great night as well as raising over £600 for Sea Shepherd Conservation. Congratulations to those who won the Awards including:
Most Improved Male Diver: Chris Burrell
Most Improved Female Diver: Claire Lawson & Tracey Stafford
Master Scuba Diver of the Year: Ben Feakes
Spirit of Diving: Tony Burns and the Whitworth family
Golden Teabag: Lesley Ives
Golden Trowels: Chris, Glenn and Mark
Golden Boots for coral protection: Mel, Andy and Liz
See the link on the right, and also the CSS Facebook page, for more photos. See you all next year!!
A great weekend at Stoney with some of the best conditions all year! Great visibility, good weather and great diving. Congratulations to everyone who qualified including Camila, Rob, Richard and Lesley for Navigation Speciality,Terri, Liz, Henry, Mike, Kainan, Josh and Damian for Open Water, Kainan and Emma for Scuba Diver and Steve, Paul, Clint and James for Advanced Open Water and Andrew for Drysuit Speciality. Well done everyone and many thanks to Carly, Sharon, Kathy and Bryn for doing surface cover all weekend.
Our new dive shop at 62 Whiffler Road is now open! There is lots of free parking, a larger showroom for all the latest dive gear, purpose built classrooms and the on-site pool is coming soon.... Come and check out the new premises, and see the link for photos of the finished shop. Thank you to everyone who helped with the project and ensured that we opened on time, with special thanks to Chris, Mark, Gary, Lou, Andy Tilley, Glenn, Jon, David H, Richard, Craig, Nigel, Dave C, Alex and Steve and to Red Dragon for the amazing new signs. Thank you everyone and see you all soon.
An amazing dive trip with some great dives on Mabul and Sipidan. We saw huge schools of jacks and barracudas, lots of turtles and loads of nudibranchs, crocodile fish, scorpion fish as well as leaf fish, mandarin fish and frogfish. We also went to the Orangutan and monkey sanctuaries and Selingan Island to see the turtle hatchery where we saw the female turtles laying eggs as well as hundreds of baby turtles hatching prior to being released into the sea. All rounded off with a day in Kuala Lumpur. Thank you everyone for coming and to Smart Divers for looking after us so well, and to Scuba Travel for organising the trip.
We are on the move to bigger and better premises! The new shop opens in mid November and is located on Whiffler Road, just off the ring road, oposite Asda petrol station. There is lots of free parking, a larger showroom for all the latest dive gear, purpose built classrooms and we're building an on-site pool! See the link for photos of the building project.....
A great weekend in the sunshine at Stoney Cove! Congratulations to everyone who qualified including Kirsty, Lucy, Tish and Lee for becoming Open Water Divers, Robert for Drysuit Speciality, Yvonne, Mark, Alex, Ben, Dan for completing Navigation Speciality and SMB Speciality, Debs for SMB, Stephen and Stephen for Wreck Speciality and Amelia, David and Ellie for Advanced Open Water. Well done everyone! Many thanks to Sarah, Debs and Jenny for doing surface cover and to Debs and Yvonne for bringing the yummy cakes!
A great week in the Red Sea diving the amazing Wrecks and Reefs itinery. We did some great dives including The Thistlegorm and the wrecks of Abu Nuhas. Highlight of the week has to be the whale shark we saw at Jackfish Alley and the night dive on The Thistlegorm. Thank you everyone who came along and made it such a brilliant week, and Congratulations to everyone who completed courses out there including Andrew Tilley for getting his Master Scuba Diver rating and Andy and Mel for achieving their Gold Master Scuba Diver. Well done!
Another great weekend at Stoney Cove with lots of new divers. Congratulations to Simon, Aaron and Mark for Wreck Speciality, Gail and Lee for Photography Speciality, Jim for Advanced Open Water, Ruth, Mark, Nigel, David and Duncan for Drysuit Speciality and to Fergus, Alice, Clint and Paul for qualifying as Open Water divers. Thanks to all the Instructors and Divemasters and special thanks to Debs for doing surface cover all weekend (and bringing the yummy cakes!). Well done everyone and see you again soon.
Another great weekend at Stoney Cove. Congratulations to everyone who qualified including Richard, Sami, Nick and James for Advanced Open Water, Matt, Adam, Claire, Will and Nigel for Wreck Speciality and SMB Speciality and Tom, Angus, Jeremy, Peter, Tom, William and Ellie for Open Water and Drysuit Speciality. Also, special congratulations to Jon, Nigel, Mike, Lesley and Mel who all qualified as Divemasters! Well done everyone and thank you for all your help, especially everyone who did surface cover all weekend.
Congratulations to everyone who qualified at Stoney Cove including Lee, Aaron and Stephen for qualifying in Navigation Speciality, Amelia, Piers, Paul and Leigh for qualifying as Open Water Divers, Simon and Diane for Drysuit Speciality, Stephen and Yvonne for Photography Speciality, Gail, Duncan, Jed and Alan for Advanced Open Water and Tim for Peak Performance Buoyancy. Well done everyone and thank you to all the Instructors and Divemasters and to Alice for doing surface cover in the rain!
Congratulations to Liz and Simon for qualifying as Tec40 Instructors and to Steve for qualifying as a Tec40 Diver. A great couple of days at Chepstow with some great dives and visibility.
A really long good weekend of diving in the Farne Islands - three days of sunshine, calm seas, great dives and great company. What more could we ask for?
Thank you to everyone who came along for making it such a great trip and to Lee Hall, Paul Walker and Chris for being great boat captains and looking after us so well.
A huge roll call of Congratulations from Stoney Cove, with several qualifications and an underwater engagement! Well done to everyone who qualified including James, Neil, Andy, Laura, Clare, Stuart for qualifying as Open Water Divers and Drysuit Speciality, Deb and David for Drysuit Speciality, Mark, Stephen and Kath for Advanced Open Water, Nigel and Hollie for Wreck Speciality and PPB, Michelle and Ben for PPB and Steve, Tracey, Chris, Steve and Dave for Navigation and SMB Specialities. Special congratulations to Neil and Rachel for getting enagaged underwater and special thanks to Sarah and Rachel for doing surface cover all weekend!
Congratulations to Matt, Ben, Dan, Will and Matt for qualifying as Rescue Divers. A great achievement and well earned! Everyone worked really hard and had some laughs along the way. Huge thanks to Richard and to Andy, Mike, Jon and Dave for being great 'victims'.
Congratulations to everyone who qualified at Stoney Cove, including Gail, Rachael, Rebecca, Duncan, Leila, David and David for qualifying as Open Water Divers and to Lee, Aaron, George and Lee for Advanced Open Water.
Many thanks to Matt, Josh, Jon, Denise, Andy and Nigel and special thanks to Rachael for doing surface cover all weekend.
Another great CSS dive holiday! Thank you everyone who came along and made it such a brilliant trip and congratulations to those who completed courses out there. Highlights included the night dive on the Thistlegorm, diving with dolphins and all the wrecks at Abu Nuhas. Roll on September for the next one!
Congratulations to Kath, Callum, Tobias, Steven, Lee and Aaron for qualifying as Open Water Divers and for doing their drysuit speciality, and also to Tracy for doing drysuit speciality. You all did really well and we look forward to diving with you again soon. Many thanks to Stuart, Lesley, Jon, Colin and Andy and everyone who did surface cover.
Congratulations to Robyn and Andrei for qualifying as Rescue Divers. A tough but challenging course, so well done for a great achievement. Well done also to Divemaster Trainees Mel, Lou and Nigel for passing their Rescue demonstrations. Many thanks to Marcus and David.
Another great weekend in the sunshine! Congratulations to everyone who qualified including Chris, Pierre and Mark for Wreck Speciality and Sean, David, Julian and Kristian for Drysuit Speciality and Claire for Advanced Open Water. Also to our newest divers - Victoria, Stephen, Neil and Kyle for Open Water and Kath for Scuba Diver. Well done everyone and thank you to Stuart, Lesley, Mel, Colin, Liz, Richard and Andy for looking after everyone so well.
The dive season has officially started! We had a really good weekend at Stoney Cove in the sunshine. Congratulations to Emily, Dave and Claire for qualifying as Open Water Divers, to Nick and Steve for Drysuit Speciality, Steve for PPB Speciality and getting his Gold Master Scuba rating. Also to Michelle, Nigel and Jeanette for Advanced Open Water. Special congratulations to Andy Stafford for qualifying as Divemaster. Well done everyone and many thanks to Marcus, Dave, Nigel, Andy and Mike and special thanks to Steve Stafford for doing surface cover all weekend.
A great first weekend back at Stoney. The water is warming up and the sun was shining. Lovely! Congratulations to Tim, Louise and Robyn for completing Navigation Speciality and to Tim and Louise for achieving their Master Scuba Diver rating. Well done to them and everyone who came along, and many thanks to Will for doing surface cover.
The group had a great time out in Malta diving Well done to everyone who qualified in a variety of courses including Stephen and Yvonne for becoming Open Water divers, Robyn for Advanced Open Water and Mike, Louise, Mark, Nick and Jon for Tec40 and Tec45. Well done everyone and many thanks to David and Andy for your help and Buddies dive centre for looking after everyone so well.
A great night at the Holiday Inn catching up with everyone. There were some special awards and a charity raffle which raised over £500 for The Sharks Trust and Sea Shepherd. Congratulations to Nicole Feakes for being awarded 'Most Improved Female Diver', Nigel Corston for 'Most Improved Male Diver' and Dave Clements for the 'Spirit of Diving' Award. Thank you to everyone who came along and for making 2010 such a great year.
Congratulations to Richard and Tzigane for qualifying as Open Water Divers and to Ben for qualifying as Advanced Open Water. Many thanks to David, Denise, Colin and Dave for all your help.
Well done to Rob, Darren, Harold and Tim for qualifying as Rescue Divers. A tough course well earned. Many thanks to Richard, Stuart, Lesley, Mark, Andy and Duncan for all your help.
25 and 26 September 2010 - Stoney Cove
Congratulations to Cameron, David and Callum for qualifying as Open Water Divers and to Adam for Dry Suit Speciality. Many thanks to Colin and Denise and to Kath for doing surface cover all weekend. Well done everyone and we look forward to diving with you soon.
A great week in the Red Sea with lots of fantastic dives. Thank you everyone for coming and congratulations to those who did courses out there including the two Karens for qualifying as Open Water divers, Jayne, Karen and Andrew for Advanced Open Water, Richard and Karen for PPB, Richard and Lesley for Drift Speciality and also to Lesley for Wreck Speciality and Master Scuba Diver! Thank you to Emperor Divers for looking after us so well, particularly Elise, Sarah and Dennis and the crew of Orchid. See you next time!
Another successful weekend at Stoney Cove with several great achievements. Congratulations to everyone who qualified including Georgie, Ben and Andrei for Wreck Speciality, Holly and Robert for Advanced Open Water and Stuart, Matthew, Sam, Adriana and Linford for qualifying as Open Water Divers. Many thanks to Marcus, Rosie, Richard, Denise, Colin and Lee for all your help and to everyone who helped with surface cover.
Congratulations to Craig, Oscar, Nigel, Sam, Alex and Nick for qualifying as Rescue Divers. Well done for doing a great job and really earning the qualification. Many thanks to Marcus, Stuart, Richard and Denise for your help and to Sasha for making the tea!
Well done to everyone who qualified at the weekend, including Cathryn, Andrew, Tracey and Alex for Navigation Speciality, Tim, Nicole, Emily and Adam for Advanced Open Water / Drysuit Speciality, to Pete, richard and Steve for Deep Speciality and to Nick, Ben, Holly, Nick, Gareth and Tracey for Open Water and Drysuit Speciality. Many thanks to Stuart, Tom, Marcus, Colin, Wayne and Josh for your help and to Carly and Tracey for doing a great job on surface cover.
Another great weekend up in the Farne Islands diving with the seals. Some mixed weather that luckily cleared up long enough to get some good dives in. Thanks you to everyone for coming and we look forward to seeing you next year!
Congratuations to everyone who qualified at Stoney Cove including Martyn, Declan and Robert for Open Water and Drysuit Speciality and Mark for Advanced Open Water. Special mention goes to Dave Clements who qualified as a PADI Divemaster! Well done to you all and many thanks to Wayne, Dave, Marcus and Denise for your help and to Kath andTracey for doing a great job on surface cover all weekend.
Another great weekend at Stoney. Lots of sun, diving and achievements. Congratulations to Cathryn and Andrew for qualifying in Wreck Speciality, Peter for Advanced Open Water, Tim, Isobel, Caitlin, Lisa and Martyn for Open Water and Tammy, Jenny and Holly for Drysuit Speciality. Many thanks to Andrew, Vanessa and David for doing surface cover all weekend and to Denise, Wayne, Tom, Marcus, Josh and Dave for a great job.
A great day diving from the CSS boat on the wreck of the Fulgnes. Lots of life including lobsters, crabs and anemones and gorgeous sunshine to dry us off on the way home - a perfect day!
An amazing week of diving from the Grand Sea Serpent. Dolphins, sharks, turtles, rays and beautful reef fish, all with great company and a brilliant crew - what more could you want!?
Another great weekend at Stoney in the sunshine. Well done and congratulations to everyone who was there including Ben, Joe and Tony (Bob) for qualifying in Advanced Open Water, Nicole for drysuit speciality, Gareth, Mark 1 and Mark 2, Alex, Luke, Anna and Mike for qualifying as Open Water Divers and Alastair - soon to be Open Water! Many thanks to Tom, Richard, Josh, Marcus and Dave and to Linda for doing surface cover all weekend.
Congratulations to everyone who qualified, including Paul, Tony, Tanya and Liam for qualifying as Open Water Divers and Drysuit Speciality, Alex, David and Karen as Advanced Open Water and Andrew as Adventure Diver and John, Dave and Mike for Wreck Speciality. Many thanks to Marcus, Rosie, Stuart, David, Wayne and Lee for all your help and to Kath, Naomi and Lou for doing surface cover.
An amazing trip that we will never forget! It started with 3 days on the mainland, exploring local dive sites and enjoying the local wildlife including wild monkeys, iguanas, parrots and lizards, followed by 10 days on board the Okeanos Aggressor which took us to the fantastic dive sites of Coco Island. We dived spectacular sites alongside Hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, hundreds of whitetip reef sharks and a 4.5 metre tiger shark! Fantastic!
A great day out on the new CSS boat. Calm seas and a great wreck to dive. The first of many dive trips this summer - see the Whats On page for details of the next trips.
A gorgeous weekend of diving in the sunshine. Congratulations to Stef, Dan, A.J. and Ady for qualifying as Open Water Divers and in Dry Suit Speciality and to Catherine, Andrew, Lucy and Simon for qualifying as Dry Suit divers and to Simon for Advanced Open Water. Well done everyone! Many thanks to Ray and Alastair for doing a great job on surface cover all weekend and to Marcus, David, Mariusz and Josh for all your help.
A great first weekend of the year at Stoney Cove. Well done to everyone who qualified including James and Ben as Open Water Divers and Dry Suit Speciality, David in Drysuit Speciality, John, Nico, Nigel, Mark and Tanya for Navigation Seciality and Pierre and Andy in Deep Speciality and Matt for Twin Set Speciality. Also special mention to John for qualifying as Master Scuba Diver and Brian as Divemaster. Many thanks to Brian and Lindy for doing surface cover and to Wayne, Richard, Stuart, Josh and Nigel for a great job.
Well done to the team who dived a mile in full scuba equipment and raised over £450 for Sport Relief. Well done and thank you to everyone who sponsored us.
A great week in the Red Sea with some briliant dives on the wrecks of Abu Nuhas despite a few days of very windy weather (we survived the sandstorms!). Thank you to Dolphin, Ahmed and 'Brucie Baby' of Dive Tribe for looking after us so well and to everyone who came along for making it such a great week.
A nice last diving weekend of the year, with very pleasant 9 degree water and great visibility. Congratulations to Richard and Oscar for qualifying as Advanced Open Water, to Dave for Drysuit Speciality and to Jon and Pierre for qualifying as Twin Set Divers. Well done everyone and we look forward to 2010.
Saturday 5th December - CSS Christmas Dinner
A great night at the Wensum Valley Hotel. Thank you to everyone for making the Christmas Dinner a huge success. Everyone had a great night and we raised over £450 for The Sharks Trust and Sea Shepherd. Congratulations to those who received special awards and thank you to everyone for making 2009 such a great year
31 October & 1 November 2009 - Stoney Cove
Another good weekend at Stoney Cove. Well done to everyone who came along and qualified including Alice, Charlotte, Peter, Jane and John for qualifying in Open Water and Drysuit Speciality and to Martin and Lucy for Advanced Open Water and Dawn for Peak Performance Buoyancy. Congratulations and many thanks to Marcus, Pete, Mick and Brian for all your help.
20 to 27 September 2009 - Sharm el Sheikh
The CSS group of 42 people took over Sharm for the week and had a fantastic week of diving, with great conditions and lots of amazing dives including the wreck of The Thistlegorm and Shark reef and Yolanda wreck. Thanks to everyone for coming and making it such a great week.
29 and 30 August 2009 - Stoney Cove
Well done to everyone who came to Stoney Cove at the weekend. Congratulations to Geoff, Trish, Georgie and Chris for qualifying as Advanced Open Water divers, to Eddie, Hugh, Arthur and Harold for qualifying in Dry Suit Speciality and to Claire, Ed, Nikki, Steph, Chris and Jon for qualifying as Open Water divers and in Dry Suit Speciality. Many thanks to Marcus, Jenny, Richard, Mick, Colin and Stuart for all your help and to Karen and Hannah for doing a great job on surface cover all weekend.
15 & 16 August 2009 - Stoney Cove
Another successful weekend at Stoney Cove with great weather and great visibility. Congratulations to Harry, Andrew, Debbie Tom, Jon and Julie for qualifying as Open Water Divers and Drysuit Speciality and to Josh, Simon, John and Mick for qualifying in Wreck Speciality. Well done to Neil, John and Ben for qualifying in Drysuit Speciality and to Andy and Lindsey for qualifying as Advanced Open Water Divers.
Weybourne Beach - August 2009
Some great shore dives from Weybourne beach to the wreck of the Rosalie. A long walk along the beach but lots to see when we got there!
30 July to 2 August 2009 - Farne Islands
A great long weekend diving in the Farne Islands in Northumbria. Lots of life to see including scorpion fish, crabs, lobsters and of course lots of seal action! Many thanks to our skippers, Paul and Grame, for looking after us and taking us to some great dive sites.
25 & 26 July 2009 - Stoney Cove
A huge roll call of congratulations to everyone this weekend! Well done to Graham, Alex, Andy, Amanda, Chris, Lindsey, Georgie, Jo, Anette and Mateus for qualifying as Open Water Divers and Dry Suit Speciality and to Jo for qualifying as Scuba Diver. Congratulations to Josh, Kate, Mark and Mick for qualifying in Deep Speciality and to Theresa, Vanessa and Claire for qualifying in Peak Performance Buoyancy and Georgina and Paul for Dry Suit Speciality. And to Pete for qualifying as Divemaster! Congratulations and thanks for a great weekend! Many thanks to Wayne, Pete, Mick, Stuart, David, Marcus, Denise, Richard and Tom for all your help and to Fiona for doing a great job on surface cover all weekend.
18 & 19 July 2009 - Rescue Diver
Congratulations to all the new Rescue Divers - Dawn, Mel, Peter, Gillian, Andy, Kate, Lara, Chris and Josh. Well done on completing this course - tough but satisfying!
20 to 27 June 2009 - South Coast UK dive tour
A great week diving some of the best dive sites along the South Coast visting Porthkerris, Plymouth, Portland and Brighton. We were lucky to have calm seas and sunshine all the way and dived some of the UK's finest sites including the wrecks of the Scylla and James Eagan Layne and the M2 submarine. We also saw loads of wildlife including tompot blennies, rays, wrasse and loads of crabs and lobsters.
13th & 14th June 2009 - Stoney Cove
Another successful weekend at Stoney Cove in the sunshine. Congratulations to everyone who completed various courses including Josh, Tony and Jack for qualifying as Open Water divers, Sasha, Nigel, Rod for qualifying as Advanced Open Water, Lara, Chris and Andre for Drysuit Speciality and to Mick, Mark, Gemma and Kate for qualifying in Navigation Speciality. Many thanks to Mariusz, Mick, Richard, Marcus and Stuart for all your help and to Sam and Troy for doing a great job on surface cover all weekend.
30th & 31st May 2009 - Stoney Cove
Another great weekend at Stoney in the sunshine. Well done to everyone who completed various courses including Mark, Tanya, Alex, Mark and Alex for qualifying in Wreck Speciality, Nick, Mark and Mick for doing Peak Performance Buoyancy, Nick for Photo Speciality, Pete, Ben, Obie for Advanced Open Water, Rod for Adventure Diver and Paul, Steve, Chris and Laura for completing Drysuit Speciality. Well done everyone and hope to see you again soon. Many thanks to Wayne, Pete, Richard, Denise and Stuart for all your help.
2nd & 3rd May 2009 - Gildenburgh
Well done to everyone who qualified in various courses at the weekend. Congratulations to Naomi, Theresa and Simon for qualifying as Open Water Divers and Drysuit Speciality and to Claire, Vanessa, Oliver, Mark and Mick for qualifying as Advanced Open Water and to Ginge for qualifying in Drysuit Speciality. Many thanks to Wayne, Marcus, Mick, Mariusz and Pete for your help.
25th & 26th April 2009 - Stoney Cove
Well done to everyone who qualified at the weekend. Congratulations to Mick, Mark, John and Paul for qualifying as Open Water Divers and in Dry Suit Speciality and to Paul, kate, Liz, Pierre and Mike for qualifying in Dry Suit Speciality. Many thanks to Marcus, Rosie, Stuart and Richard for all your help.
