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Fourth Element is recruiting!

3 years 10 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

The candidate would join the current Marketing Team to help expand and develop the company’s online capabilities to support their continued growth.

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Raymond Clark of Adventure Divers passes away

4 years 1 week ago By Rosemary E Lunn

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Ray Clark relaxing during a surface interval in the Red Sea. Ray understood the importance of getting divers fun diving, and Adventure Divers ran many trips both in the UK and aboard, to help divers consolidate their skills.

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Ray Clark loved diving out of Swanage, Dorset

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The PADI International team pictured in Bristol in approximately 1995.

Another student, James Belcher, wrote "I met Ray through the Adventure Divers shop. Dave, my dive buddy, and I would often book onto dives organised by Ray and Adventure Divers. I did a few dives out of Swanage with Ray on the club rib.

Some of the Adventure Divers Diving Society members pictured before heading off on a UK dive trip. Image Credit: Tayden Lewis Clark

Ray and Cathy Clark on their wedding day

Ray Clark is survived by his third wife, Cathy, and his daughter Tasha.

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“Be Cautious, Be Safe” states the BDSG, as new Government Restrictions commence

4 years 1 month ago By Rosemary E Lunn

BDSG Guidance for diving in England

These guidelines are subject to change, so please refer to the government website for the latest guidance.

Fact File

The British Diving Safety Group (BDSG) was formed in 2002 to promote safe diving practices amongst the British sport diving community. It is chaired by the RNLI.

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Fourth Element strengthens its team with Dean Martin appointment

4 years 1 month ago By Rosemary E Lunn

Dean has worked in the UK scuba diving industry for almost two decades.

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Dean Martin was delighted to meet a fellow temperate-water diver. Prince Charles dived the Tudor Warship, the Mary Rose wreck.

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John Lamb—‘Mr Oxygen’—dies at 78

4 years 2 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

John Lamb was one of the unsung heroes of the diving industry. Mark Powell, Technical educator / author

John Lamb’s name is synonymous with oxygen. He literally wrote the book on it.

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Rebreather Cells

Sensors, like sharks, have suffered from some bad PR. Rosemary E Lunn

Ryan Swaine

I have lost not only a boss, but a great mentor and a friend. Ryan Swaine, Vandagraph

Ryan Swaine at a UK Dive Show in 2014. He was in excellent form considering he was very jet lagged. Ryan's job with Viamed / Vandagraph meant he would regularly travel abroad for work.

One True Love

John and I have been friends, partners and soul mates since we met in our school days 64 years ago. Jean Lamb, Vandagraph

John and Jean Lamb with Steve Nixon at EUROTEK's pre-dinner drinks reception

It is only fitting that I leave the last words to John S Lamb.

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Kraken to launch 'Unknown Deep' Rum this October

4 years 2 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

Kraken UK are collaborating with competitive freediver Beci Ryan, because the drinks company has announced that it is opening its first underwater ‘Dive Thru'.

Beci Ryan has been tasked to freedive the depths of the National Diving & Activity Centre in Chepstow, to salvage bottles from a treasure chest full of 'Unknown Deep' rum.

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A freediver went to sea sea sea⁠
To see what she could see see see⁠
But all that she could see see see was bottles of rum in the deep blue ... quarry

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Cromhall Quarry opens under new management

4 years 2 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

We reported on 23 May 2002 that Cromhall Quarry in Gloucestershire would not reopen when the C

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British Divers Write to Your MP to Vote on Shark EDM

4 years 2 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

The petition started by 'Shark Guardian' needed a minimum of 100,000 signatures, in order for Parliament to consider debatin

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UK divers—petition Parliament now to ban the importation of shark fins!

4 years 2 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

The insatiable demand for shark fins is catastrophic for the shark population. According to the World Wildlife Fund, “the latest research suggests that around 100 million sharks may be killed annually, often targeted for their fins.”

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DDRC launches COVID-19 diver survey

4 years 5 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

At present, COVID-19 is a new infection, hence no one knows what the long-term problems will be for divers. At this early stage, there are concerns regarding lung function.

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Independence Day for British Charter Boat Diving!

4 years 5 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

The DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) guidance included a section relating to “skippered day-boat hire and skippered day charter hire” and stated “operators should not allow skippered day boat hire or skippered d

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Are you all set to take the #PlasticChallenge this July?

4 years 5 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

It's a question that the Marine Conservation Society has asked.

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Doing a beach clean? Sign up to 'BeachClean.org'

4 years 5 months ago By Rosemary E Lunn

It makes it safer for our wild and marine life, and a more pleasant place to visit.

BeachClean.org was soft launched last year, and the site has already been used by organisers in Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, the Netherlands and Tanzania.