2015 - A yearly review of Atlantic Scuba's activities

2015 was a good year. We made new friends and met some old ones. It was a windy year, luckily we have plenty of shelter from most winds and it hasn't stopped us going out and going diving. Our instructors have taught a few courses, the boat has been busy, lots of locals diving too. No plankton bloom this year, although the barrel jellyfish stayed around. We didn't see any Basking Sharks, possibly due to the lack of plankton.

Notable events for us included:

• Scubafest: we set up a stand but the boat was blown out by the winds
• Baby lobster releases reached 16,000 (running total)
• Dive 2015 was, as always, good fun and although it didn't seem as busy as before, was worthwhile
• TV appearance of the BBC One Show, 2/11/2015
• Article published in SCUBA magazine
• Jellyfish footage sold to Channel 4
• Some diving footage sold to BBC too
• We found more previously un-found wrecks
• 14 photos in 1 issue of SCUBA magazine
• Sold a photo of a diver to an insurance company for use in their advertising
• Had 19 continuous days at sea with divers on board
• Stingray was used for Andy Torbet's One Show Free Diving piece shown in February
• Stingray was also used in Jocks and Nerds magazine shoot of Ian Donald Freediving
• We were a support vessel for another Rosamund Pilcher film
• We bought another boat, for personal use
• We have been looking at other commercial boat options

There was probably a lot more but don't want to make the list too long.

We have now found a Dive Computer supplier, Ratio. They have a range of dive computers with some unique features, cool looking too.

Our new dive light supplier, Big Blue, also have some excellent torch and video lights.

Kwark undersuits, I can't see me changing to anything else soon.

The shop is looking stocked now.

We have ordered even more stock since we took these photos, some has just arrived, some more on it's way.