Belmullet - St. Patrick's Weekend

St. Patrick’s weekend Belmullet seen an invasion of 27 divers from Naas Sub-Aqua Club. This included seven new trainees looking for their first five dives & Belmullet did not let them down. While North Easterly winds reached force 6 & 7, they did not effect the diving in Scotch Port on St. Patrick’s Day & Ahadoon on the Saturday & Sunday.

Congratulations to the seven trainees who completed their 5 x trainee dives to become officially “Trainee Divers”.  Namely, Carmel Staunton, Noel Spillane, Tom McCabe, Eamonn Grant, Peter Mas, Terry McCaul & Patrick Maye.
 
With 15mt visibility in Ahadoon, the trainees were spoilt from the start. Lobsters, Squat Lobsters, Crab, Ling & even a seal made a guest appearance on Sunday. The beams of sun light lighting up the swim throughs, made spectacular diving for this time of year. It was obvious from their gleaming faces these trainees were now hooked with not even the 8 degree water temperature dampening their enthusiasm.
 
We completed 109 dives in excellent conditions over the weekend. Well done & thanks to Rosemary, our Diving Officer for the smooth running of everything on the weekend. Thanks also to the Instructors who travelled down to get the five dives done with the trainees. We are now looking forward to sampling the delights of the Inishkea Islands off Belmullet later in the season.
 
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        Carmel Staunton & Noel Spillane                             The O3 Terrible Twins!
 
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Tom McCabe, Terry McCaul & Peter Mas at Scotch Port, Belmullet on Patrick's Day.
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Carmel Staunton, Patti Leeson, Diane Coleman & Marian Fadian.
     strut their stuff at French Port, Belmullet - St. Patrick's Day.
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    Ahadoon can be tricky to enter the water, making for some unorthodox entries!
Pictures by Tony Leeson & Bredan Flynn.

Posted by Liam Whelan on March 21, 2006 02:59 PM |

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It was my first time to dive and it was totally amazing.There is a great under water world out there to be seen. The instructors were excellent and I learnt loads.I highly recommend diving as a great hobbie.Roll on the next diving wekend!!!

Posted by: Carmel Staunton | March 22, 2006 02:24 PM

Great reading, keep up the great posts.
Peace, JiggaDigga

Posted by: JiggaDigga | April 7, 2006 06:35 PM

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