Just before the Bank Holiday weekend, four signs were erected on the beach of the outer marina …
These are a much needed, and long-overdue addition to this area of Eastbourne’s Sovereign Harbour.
Residents have been campaigning for over three years about the need for signs like these to increase public awareness to the potential dangers of the boat lanes and especially the mud which is exposed at low tides…
I wrote in a previous post about members of my local dive club participating in an introductory course in marine archaeolgy on 28th April.
That article covered the first 2 parts of the course, whereas this article covers the final part of the course where we all got wet in a local swimming pool to try and translate the stuff we’d learnt in the classroom and on the outdoor, ‘dry’ exercise into practise.
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Underwater Surveying Using a Frame |
The photo shows an underwater frame, which is one technique of surveying all or part of a dive site. The other technique we used…
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This is the third post relating to a dive I did in North Marina a few weeks ago and this time I’m going to show you one of the harbour’s most common marine species, although it’s also the one with the funniest name…
Here’s a photo of a couple of them:
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Sea Squirt in North Harbour |
In previous posts I’ve written about the wreck that has been recently discovered in Norman’s Bay and the plans of the licensee of the wreck to work with my local scuba diving club to research it further.
As part of these plans, five dive club members attended an Introductory course delivered by the Nautical Archaeological Society (NAS) on 28th April, at the NAS headquarters in Portsmouth.
The course was split into three parts:
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