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Dive Charter Boats & Skippers: Discuss opinions please on Skippers, Boats and Dive Centres. in the Trips, Spaces and Coastguard Information forums: I am thinking of using aquanauts in plymouth and possibly jurassic coast diving in exemouth this year as I may ...

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Old 10-02-05, 12:56 PM
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Question opinions please on Skippers, Boats and Dive Centres.
I am thinking of using aquanauts in plymouth and possibly jurassic coast diving in exemouth this year as I may be 'down that way' quite a bit during the summer. does anyone use them? are they any good? what are their boats like?

Would appreciate any opinions and/or alternative recommendations from any local residents/users.

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Jurassic coast is owned by Martin Hall who posts on here as Diving Doc. I have not seen him around for a bit though.

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One alternative is Deep Blue in Plymouth. Richie Stevenson runs it, and he REALLY knows what he's talking about. They run regualr shuttle ribs out to the popular sites and ahave a couple of hardboats too. you can very cheap accommodation the mountbatten centre, which is next door, stagger out of the hotel and straight onto the rib


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Aqaunauts have a new boat which just passed it's testing yesterday i think... no idea what that's going to be like. They used Venture and Pamela Ann last season, many trips to JEL, Scylla, Persier etc...friendly people...
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aquanauts have offered me a boat called the 'sepia', perhaps thats it. I must admit I was a bit worried at first, thought they said 'seepier', as in it seeps a lot :-) Looks quite nice on the website, but can't make out the ladder(s). Hope that they are OK to use.

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I dived the Scylla and JEL last year with Brian from Aquanauts. Friendly guys and went for a beer afterwards with them. If they were any closer to the harbour the floor would be wet. IIRC they are a small commercial front to an informal 'club' of local divers.

The boat I was on was the UK National. A bit short of cover if it got rough or rainy but it was suny so no probs there. Ladder is a fins-off job which is a bit of a pain.

Also went on the Furious last year too which was a good boat- nice lift at the back and well set up for 12. Fast, too.
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aquanauts have offered me a boat called the 'sepia', perhaps thats it. I must admit I was a bit worried at first, thought they said 'seepier', as in it seeps a lot :-) Looks quite nice on the website, but can't make out the ladder(s). Hope that they are OK to use.

Cheers for advice, keep it comming
yep, the Sepia (cuttlefish...isn't that cuuuuteee?? mmmm )is their new boat...haven't seen the ladder yet either...but Dougie was talking about putting a lift on... i'll pop round there tommorow, have a look and let u know...(i work round the corner)
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cheers, would appreciate that. some of the guys have twin 12's and one twin15's, so lifts are good!
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