Atlantic Scuba

Dive Centre, Falmouth, Cornwall.

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Inbetweeners first 720.mp4 from Atlantic Scuba on Vimeo.

Inbetweeners, part of the Bizzies Reef, Falmouth.

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Falmouth weekender

Falmouth weekender deal

Four dives with two nights accommodation for £180 per person (max 6 people), a Falmouth Weekender. The bunk room for four people Atlantic Scuba is offering diving weekends in Falmouth, Cornwall, for groups up to 6 people. The offer includes two nights accommodation, on a bed only basis, four dives from one of our hard boats (with diver lifts), plus air fills on the Saturday after the…

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Falmouth Tall Ships 2023

Falmouth Tall Ships 2023

Falmouth Tall Ships 2023 Book our Boats for Trips to see the Tall Ships from the water within Falmouth Harbour. Our boats are also available for charter to visit the Tall Ships or be there for the start. All three of our boats will be available for the start of the race. Moonshadow with it huge deck space, can take 12 people, ideal for film crews with or without drones etc. Moonray is fast, it…

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Moonshadow going out.mp4 from Atlantic Scuba on Vimeo.

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Moonray, the journey to become a dive boat

Moonray, the journey to become a dive boat

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Epsilon Dive Brief

Epsilon before she hit a mine

The Epsilon detonated a mine laid on Jan 22 1917 by German submarine UC-17. On Voyage from Buenos Ayres to Amsterdam with a cargo maize. The Epsilon wreck is very broken, it was dynamited after being designated a hazard to shipping. At sometime during the 1980’s, some local divers found a large parachute mine, they persuaded the bomb squad to move the UXB to the…

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Stanwood dive brief

ss Stanwood

The Stanwood was a 4158 ton steamship, that had been confiscated from the Germans at the end of the Great War (WW1). It was used for carrying cargo for many years, until one day in December 1939, it went into Falmouth docks for repairs.

The are several stories about her exact final moments, my favourite is that when she was being welded, the cargo of coal caught fire. She was…

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Scuba diving agencies

If you want to dive with us, whether it’s just for a shore dive, or from our boats, we accept all agencies. Most of our staff are multi agency trained, most of our instructors are multi agency instructors.

We know quite a few representatives from several agencies, we are friends with most. We have just returned from the Go Diving Show in Coventry where we spoke to SDI, TDI, PADI BSAC, SAA, NAUI…

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What to do? When not diving pt1 - Eden Project

What to do? When not diving pt1 – Eden Project

Cornwall has attractions to suit most people, one that suits a wide range of people, is the Eden Project.

The site consists of two large biomes situated at the bottom of a disused quarry, the whole site including the outside gardens, covers 13 hectares. The Rainforest and Mediterranean biomes are basically climate controlled massive greenhouses. Featuring plants and features of their relative…

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WILDSEA Europe Atlantic Ocean Heritage Route - WAOH

WILDSEA Europe Atlantic Ocean Heritage Route – WAOH

We have been asked to join the WAOH project as a stakeholder. Whilst the project is open to all, creating a sustainable scuba diving route around the Atlantic coast of Europe, is the main aim.

Taken from the Wildsea.eu website:

The WILDSEA Atlantic Heritage Route is a discovery journey along the best diving destinations in Europe‘s Atlantic coastline. The Route celebrates the unique natural …

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2018 Atlantic Scuba new promo video from Atlantic Scuba on Vimeo.

A little video we created as a promo for 2018.

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Marine and Natural History Photography (MNHP) in Falmouth.

Marine and Natural History Photography (MNHP) in Falmouth.

Penryn Campus of Falmouth University teach a course called “Marine and Natural History Photography” (MNHP).

For the marine side of this course, students must be qualified divers. We have taught quite a few MNHP students to dive. With our experience with underwater photography and filming, we can also help with the course projects.

We have also been the subject of a couple of films for final…

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TV Appearances

We have just finished filming for our next TV appearance, which will be shown on the next series of BBC1 SW’s Inside Out program. The series starts in September 2018.

We have managed to record most of our appearances, then uploaded them to You-Tube. Here are some of them:

President Wreck BBC1 National News at 6

Why does this diver keep finding bombs, Forces TV

Animals rescued from ghost fishing…

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Diver Magazine Pieces we have appeared in

Diver Magazine Pieces we have appeared in

Title Added Section The U-BOAT Coast Appeared in DIVER July 2018 2018-07-11 13:11:35 Wrecks President’s guns found off Cornwall 2 June 2018 2018-06-02 12:25:00 Diving News Is this the last glimpse of HMS Anson? 27 May 2018 2018-05-27 11:37:16 Diving News NOW YOU SEE IT… Appeared in DIVER February 2018 2018-02-08 16:50:29 UK Diving Diver finds WW2 mine off Cornwall 5 December…

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Darlwyne - the forgotten tragedy of 1966

Darlwyne – the forgotten tragedy of 1966

Appeared in DIVER November 2016 Thirty-one people died off Cornwall when a boat unfit to be at sea went missing, but in the aftermath of England’s World Cup victory the headlines went missing too. Fifty years on, MARK MILBURN set out to find the wreck

SOMETIMES THINGS CAN surprise you. Something catches your attention, and you might even wonder how you missed it. One day this May, we were…

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Pendennis shore dive, searching for subs.

Pendennis shore dive, searching for subs.

A shore dive at the Silver Steps on Pendennis.   I have been studying some old photographs of the U-Boats on Pendennis Headland. From the photographs I had worked out where they were and even which one was which. Having only seen the parts from three of the subs before, was there anything left of any others?   The forecast was good, the tide was high and the vis had been improving. After being…

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The President wreck story.

The President wreck story.

After our exciting dive on the President wreck, David Gibbins wrote a press release as follows:

29 May 2018 – Cornwall, UK

Divers off Cornwall have discovered cannons and an anchor thought to be from one of the richest ships ever to wreck against these shores. In 1684 the English East Indiaman the President came to grief against Loe Bar, carrying down most of her crew as well as a ‘very rich…

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