Newry and Mourne Sub Aqua Club

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Pictured above are Members of Newry and Mourne Sub Aqua Club who took part in the launching of the Newry & Carlingford Lough Maritime Festival recently.Read more...

Please use the list on the left to navigate around the site and don't hesitate to get in touch with us using the 'Contact' link if you've any questions. Newry & Mourne Sub Aqua Club has been going for nearly 40 years and has members from all walks of life, some very experienced divers and others who have only just begun to discover the pleasure and excitement that can be found under the waves! The club was pioneered and funded by local enthusiasts in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Newry & Mourne Sub Aqua Club started with a series of shore dives in and around Carlingford Lough.

These dives often involved a long swim to reach sites and were usually carried out by single divers as there was not enough equipment to implement a Buddy system....Today we have 2 diesel & 2 petrol high powered RIBS and our Technical Team has a group of 8 highly trained Trimix Divers, capable of diving to depths of 100+ metres. Our Club was one of the first clubs in Ireland with a dedicated Nitrox Compressor Unit. (ie a Compressor unit with the capability of producing air fills with a greater oxygen content than that of 21%.) We have just purchased a second new Compressor at a cost of £7k, funded soley by the Club, in order to cope with the 400% increase in membership over the past 24 months.


Click to play a short video taken on the SS Lochgarry. A troop transport ship the SS Lochgarry foundered in bad weather and eventually sank off the coast of Rathlin Island in January 1942 and lies at a depth of 34m. Much of the colour spectrum is lost at this depth and a strobe light should ideally have been used. This explains why the video appears very green in colour. However, the viewer can see from this short video the large amount of marine life on the wreck and the fish that can be seen are Pollock, Wrasse and Dogfish.	The video clip above shows some of the diving during a trip to Cyprus at Easter 2009 when the club dived the 'Zenobia'. The Zenobia is a 10,800 ton cargo ferry that sank on it's maiden voyage from Sweden to Syria in 1980 as a result of a malfunction with the computer system controlling the ballast tanks. She lies on her port side in 40 metres about one kilometre out of Larnaca harbour. Much of the clip above however shows a dive at Green Bay a short distance up the coast from Ayia Napa. This was a very scenic dive and includes footage of some of our divers feeding the fish. The water temperature was 20 degrees!

Club News

Updated 12.01.10

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There is a boat booked for Trimix Diving with The Seahunter in Youghal. The trip will take place on one (or more) of these weekends:

May 29th/30th

June 19th/20th

July 17th/18th

Aug 21st/22nd

Sept 11th/12th

Sept 25th/26th

All diving will be on clean, fully intact, little dived, wrecks in the 55mtr to 85 mtr mark. Anyone wishing to go on one of these dates please contact Peter on 07836774694

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The dive holiday for club members this year is to the Coral Hills Resort in Sharm, Egypt. 08/04/2010 - 15/04/2010 inclusive. 5 days diving including 1 day at the Thistlegorm & 1 day at the blue hole in Dahab. Diving cost £250. Flights, all inclusive 4 star accommodation. Places may still be available if anyone wants to enquire call 07894272465

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