2013 - A Brief Review of the Year

2013, just what did it bring to Atlantic Scuba? We taught lots of people to dive and took loads of people diving on our boat, nothing much new there.

So, the highlights.

• We were asked to supply some Thornback Ray footage for Channel 4's Easter Special program, "Easter Eggs Live" - LINK
• We released 1,000 juvenile lobsters for the National Lobster Hatchery on the Old Wall Reef in Falmouth. We also released 1,200 baby lobsters around the Hera wreck - LINK
• We re-found and corrected the GPS co-ordinates of the Andromeda and Bay of Panama wrecks, we also corrected the co-ordinates of the Ponus with the UK Hydrgraphic Office.
• We helped Wessex Archaeology with a project to identify one of our local submarine wrecks. The project is to be released to the public during 2014.
• We found remains of up to seven different wrecks, previously un-found, throughout the year.
• We were interviewed by several students from Tremough University, for various project.
• ITV took some of our lobster release footage from You-Tube, WITHOUT our permission, and used it on a news item - LINK
• Monty Halls chartered our boat for one of his 'Great Escapes' weekends. Both Monty and his 'escapees' were very happy with the diving, we look forward to his return.
• Some of our underwater photo's appeared in SCUBA Magazine over the year, mainly in Nick Lyon's Scuba Bloke article. 
• The Guardian newspaper booked our boat to take out some freedivers from FreediveUK (Newquay) - LINK
• We were asked if our boat 'Stingray' could be used as the safety boat for a German film, 'Evita's Revenge'. It ended up being used for some of the filming, the film is due to be shown in Germany Spring 2014.
• We were contacted by TwoFour film company, we were asked to take part in a TV program, which we did. The series, including our episode, starts on Channel 5 early 2014.
• Another group of Tremough students made a short documentary film about us, it is being entered into several film festivals, it will not be available to the public until it has been show at all the festivals.

So, quite an eventful year. I wonder what 2014 will bring?