by Tim Murphy

Black Head, Kinsale Scuba Dive

23:59 in Club Dives by Tim Murphy

Wednesday May 22 saw us eventually heading out from Oysterhaven over some choppy water to get a 15 meter dive at Black Head.

Cork Sub Aqua Club Divers kit up off Black Head, Kinsale

Cork Sub Aqua Club Divers kit up off Black Head, Kinsale

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by Tim Murphy

Seasearch Observer training Course UCC

19:48 in Community Activities, Cork, Diving, Marine Life, SCUBA, Training by Tim Murphy

Photo of two students at Seasearch course in UCC

Janet Mullins and Tim Murphy Cork Sub Aqua Club

Janet and Tim from Cork Sub Aqua Club who attended the Seasearch Observer course in UCC on Saturday.  We really enjoyed it and hope that we get out on a dive or two to begin collecting  soon.  Thanks  to Rory and Tony for giving the course, to Chris for supervision and to Tim Butter for organising this opportunity

Weather permitting Tim is organising a Seasearch dive next Sunday in Kinsale as part of the Submerged Gathering (the event is being organised by Anne and Graham Ferguson of Oceanaddicts).  If anyone wants to dive, Tim will be there to assist anyone with species identification and form filling after the scuba dive.

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by Tim Murphy

Seasearch Reminder

15:18 in Diving by Tim Murphy

Seasearch would like to remind you all that there are still some places left on the fish underwater Observer courses they are running in Donegal on the 6/7th of April and Cork on 13/14th of April, so if you think you might be interested in a place on the course or if you are interested in doing a refresher get in touch with Seasearch, Tim Butter or reply to this post.

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by Tim Murphy

Scuba diving skills Video Training in pool March 27

23:01 in Cork, Diving, Training by Tim Murphy

Scuba diving skills Training in Mayfield swimming pool Cork City. The Cork Sub Aqua Club trainees go through practical work including ditch and recovery, buddy breathing, buoyancy – plus the all important- camera checking routines from Derek and Tim! Video from EPL3, 14-42mm, EP05L, correction and editing in ib, and Corel VideoStudio Pro X6. ib did the quick fix of the lighting and export. X6 did the clip timeline combination, titles and transitions & final export.

Scuba diving skills Training in Mayfield swimming

Higher Res version is here - http://youtu.be/wE9sQbGdeAk

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by Tim Murphy

Gallery of Snorkel Photos St. Patrick’s Weekend 2013

23:09 in Diving by Tim Murphy

Getting snorkels done March 2013. Snorkel Photos in Oysterhaven, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland.

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by Tim Murphy

Cork Sub Aqua Club Snorkel Oysterhaven St. Patrick’s Weekend

22:54 in Club Dives, Cork, Dive Sites, Members, SCUBA, Training by Tim Murphy

Photos of  Cork Sub Aqua Club divers and other visiting divers at a Snorkel in Oysterhaven on 16th March 2013, St, Patrick’s Weekend. After the boat cleaning and Rib prep comes the diver prep, get in the water and do those Duck Dives!

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by Tim Murphy

Your Help needed

15:04 in Members, SCUBA by Tim Murphy

Club Equipment cleaning day

Saturday morning, 16th March at 11am

Hi,
each year we ask members for help in getting our two boats ready for the coming dive season.
Some items that are now needing some tender loving care:
  • our two Dive Ribs
  • The boat storage area
  • Ancillary boat equipment
Boats will need: cleaning, pumping tubes and general maintenance work
The yard where the boats are stored needs, strimming, hedge cutting, cleaning
Other equipment needs, locating, counting, checking.
How you can help:
Come along on the day to do whatever you can. This could involve: cleaning, helping to move items, general tidying up, cutting hedge/grass/weeds.
Bring any tools: If you have battery or petrol powered tools that would be useful on the day please bring along. Strimmers, hedge cutters, power washers would all be great.
Otherwise consider bringing manual hedge clippers, long reach pruning or branch cutters, sweeping brush, scrubbing brush.
It’s a good opportunity to get familiar with boats and equipment and to meet up with other members.
You are going to be using these boats for the year – you might as well get them looking respectable!
Saturday morning, 16th March at 11am
Most likely there will also be a snorkel organised for the same day

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by Tim Murphy

Sunday Snorkel Oysterhaven Bay

11:05 in Diving by Tim Murphy

Hi, next Snorkel coming up this Sunday. Another chance to run down that Snorkel count. Meet Sunday 11 am, Oysterhaven.

Reply, text or teamer if interested…
LW 10:49
Forecast Light showers, Temp=8, low winds
** remember to – “Go past the sailing centre and stop in the next bay, by the second slipway where the Search and Rescue building is”

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by roryboy

Social night afters.

00:42 in Diving by roryboy

We had our first social night of the year last friday in the Ovens Bar on Oliver Plunkett Street, and a great night was had by all that attended. Pints were good and the craic was mighty.  Some of us were sensible ( unfortunately) and headed home at a reasonable hour – however there is a major rumour circulating that one or two ( two actually) of the ladies lost the run of themselves.  Being a very discreet person I don’t want to name names until I have checked out all the gory details but Jessie and Janet – Pole Dancing and Lap Dancing at a strip club what were ye thinking – No no don’t tell me – just let me dream about it..

Another social will be organised soon and there is no way I’ll be heading home early.

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by donmc

Cork Sub Aqua’s Scuba and Snorkel site Directions

23:55 in Club Dives, Cork, Dive Sites, Diving, SCUBA by donmc

Hi There,
Here are written directions to Cork SAC’s favourite Scuba and Snorkel sites.
Directions to Oysterhaven (Our Cork base): Take Cork to Kinsale road and turn left at Belgooly between the two pubs. Follow road for about two miles and turn right (sign posted Oysterhaven). Follow this road and go straight through the junction when you can see the sea. Go past the sailing centre and stop by the second slipway where the Search and Rescue building is.
Directions to Nohoval Cove: Go to Carrigaline. Go straight thru town centre. Go past  the Bank or Ireland and 100m after the pedestrian crossing you turn  left up the hill. (It looks like it’s straight on) Follow this road for a few miles. (It goes up a hill and then down a hill.) At the next T-Junction turn left. 500m down the road you come to Minane Bridge. Go over the bridge and take the next right hand turn. Follow this road for a few miles. Go straight through each crossroads.  (Last one is a small bit skewed to the right). You eventually come to a T-Junction with a School house on the left hand side. At this junction turn right and 50m later after an s-bend turn left. It should be signposted from here. Alternatively, you can make your way to Nohoval, (Take the Kinsale road. Turn left between the two pubs in Belgooly, Follow this road until you see a sign post for Nohoval) From Nohoval follow the road to Robert’s cove. Two miles down the road just before an S-Bend you should find a sign post for Nohoval cove. Follow the signposts.
Directions to Robert’s Cove: Go to Carrigaline. Go straight thru town centre. Go past  the Bank or Ireland and 100m after the pedestrian crossing you turn  left up the hill. (It looks like it’s straight on) Follow this road for a few miles. (It goes up a hill and then down a hill.) At the next T-Junction turn left. 500m down the road you come to Minane Bridge. Go straight through Minane bridge (over the bridge and past the church)
This road will go straight to Robert’s Cove.
Directions to Bullen’s Bay, Garretstown: Go to Kinsale.  Once in Kinsale follow the main road which goes around the water front.
Travel over the large bridge to Garretstown/Ballinspittle direction. After you cross the bridge follow the main road and about two miles down the road there should be a turn off to the left for Garretstown. Keep following the main road until you can see a Quay on the left hand side. Park where ever you can close to this. The Speckled Door pub should be just beyond the quay.
Directions to SandyCove: Go to Kinsale.  Once in Kinsale follow the main road which goes around the water front. Travel over the large bridge to Garretstown/Ballinspittle direction. After you cross the bridge follow the main road and the left hand turn off to Sandy cove is approx 500m after the bridge. (should be signposted). Once you take this turn off you must immediately turn right. (Should be signposted). Keep following the main road which runs parallel to the sea until you see the road widen to an area where you can park the car.
Directions to Broad Strand, Courtmacsherry: Go to Bandon. Upon entering Bandon turn left at first roundabout. (Bypass) Next T-Junction turn Right. 200m down hill turn left on to main road (You may now have right of way). Soon you’ll enter Oldchapel and you’ll need to take left hand turn signposted Timoleague. You’ll need to turn left again 100m up the road. (Watch signposts) Follow signposts to Timoleague. Upon entering Timoleague there should be a signpost for Courtmacsherry. You’ll need to go past a Castle and go over a causeway so you can’t really go wrong. Upon entering Courtmacsherry go past the pubs and you should come to a junction where you turn Right (signposted to Broad Strand) Follow the road until you see a signpost for Broad Strand. (Left hand turn)
Directions to Adrigole: Adrigole is half way between Castletownbere and Glengarriff on the Beara penisula. Cork-Ballincollig-Crookstown-Beal na Blath -Kealkill-Glengarriff-Adrigole.
Directions to Garinish Pier (Allihies): From CastletownBere go straight through town towards Allihies. Keep on following the Coast Road. (There’s a secondary road that goes over the mountain) Watch out for a left hand turn for Dursey Island Cable Car. It’s just before a mountain pass. (It’s two miles before Allihies) Take this road. Note it’s twisty (as some club members have found out) so take care. So it starts with the mountains on your Right Hand Side and the Sea on your left. After a few miles you will pass through a mountain pass and you find the mountains on your left hand side and the sea on your right. About 200m after this pass there is a turn to the right which you will need to take. You’re almost there. If you look down to the sea you should see a few small islands and a Pier. This is Garinish Pier.
Directions to Kilcrohane: Cork – Ballincollig Bypass – Crookstown – Bealnablath – Coppeen – Shanlaragh – Dunmanway – Drimoleague – Durrus (Take Sheeps Head turn) – Ahakista – Kilcrohane. The pier is just after the town. Alternative: Cork – Bandon – Enniskeane – Ballineane – Dunmanway etc..

 

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