PSAC members (above) enjoy a seafood snack between dives during the club week on Valentia Island.  Click here for a trip report and images.

The date for the pirate-themed Club BBQ has been changed to Saturday, July 19th owing to inclement conditions forecast for this weekend. 

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The article below appeared in The Irish Times Magazine on May 31st.

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Click here for a trip report and some images from the June Bank Holiday trip to Kilkee

Click here to view some images from the May Bank Holiday trip to Schull.

Click here for a trip report and images from the club’s ‘08 trip to the Red Sea.  Post a comment below.

For those of you who can’t wait to see the new boat, here’s a sneak preview.

Click here to view some underwater images shot by Fiona over the last couple of years while diving abroad.

The Marine Casualty Investigation Board has recommended that jet skis should be licensed and those using them should have to undergo mandatory training.  The recommendations are made in its report into the death of a jetskier on Lough Beltra, Co Mayo, in 2006.  The Coast Guard, in its report for last year published today, says that there was a 10% increase in jet ski accidents last year. Read the rest of this entry »

Rescues involving leisure craft and shore anglers have shown another increase in offshore and inland waters over the past year, according to latest Coast Guard statistics.  The figures for 2007 show a 38 per cent rise in nuisance calls to Irish Coast Guard staff, while hoax calls are at half the level recorded almost a decade ago.  Incident numbers last year involving Coast Guard staff and rescue agency volunteers were up by 154 cases on 2006. Almost half of the total number of 1,961 incidents occurred within a mile of the coast, at 958 rescues. Read the rest of this entry »