Orkney Sub Aqua Club

08/07/2025

https://youtu.be/qg0OIVzPw-s?si=IOZ_C-cwczA3rQBp

A wreck that one of our members, Kevin Heath, founder of Lost In Waters Deep, researched and located off Coll, west of Mull.

This is the wreck of HMS Jason, lost in 1917 after striking a mine with the loss of 25 lives

This video shows the discovery of HMS Jason, a Royal Navy ship lost during World War 1 in the Inner Herbides. Hear the firsthand account of this amazing disc...

03/07/2025

Have you seen Orkney Sub-Aqua Club is the ‘Club Focus’ in this month’s Scuba Magazine? If not, you should get on it! Thanks to Laura, our club Secretary, who responded to the questions, it’s clear to see how fortunate we are to live in Orkney, to have an ever-expanding choice of dive sites and wrecks to explore, and to have an excellent bunch of divers as our members.

Orkney truly is one of the top dive destinations of the world and thousands of divers can attest to that. We live where many come for a ‘once in a lifetime’ holiday, so if you live locally and are a diver, come and join us for some extraordinary adventures.

We’re also getting into putting on our own club expeditions further afield. We’re just back from Unst, Shetland, so look out for a post on that with some stunning photographs.

If you’re interested in diving with us, as a member or a guest, don’t hesitate to contact us on [email protected], or drop us a message here on Facebook.

28/04/2025

This month we kicked off the Spring diving season with a skills refresher led by Advanced Instructor Nick Lyon, covering basic life support techniques and AED usage as part of the Sport Diver training course.

Looking forward to warmer waters and more frequent diving!

03/03/2025

The lectures will be online and information regarding these will be sent to you before the course date. The course date itself will be practical only covering whale, dolphin and seal rescue techniques.

05/02/2025

Orkney Sub-Aqua Club was formed on Sunday 25th May 1969, which means our club has been going for 55 years, (or 668 months or 2,906 weeks or 20,345 days or 488,298 hours or 29,297,922 minutes or 1,757,875,321 seconds)!!

There's been a lot of diving and general adventuring going on since then and we are fortunate to have some incredibly knowledgeable, experienced and inspiring members who have helped create the club we enjoy today.

So, the plan is that once a week we'll be sharing a feature post.
There are a few categories we'll be exploring, which include but are not limited to:

Love the Rust : Highlighting wrecks around greater Orkney that we have dived or plan to dive, including their history. This will include many of the lesser known sites that deserve some appreciation.

Creature Feature : Looking at interesting creatures, (we won't forget the plants!) we find in our waters, including superb photographs and information from local experts (several who are members of OSAC), and finding out more about conservation efforts and opportunities to become involved.

Way Back When : We have a long, recorded history thanks to our past and present members, and in that time the club has been involved in some memorable diving and non-diving adventures. Photos, videos, newspaper articles and club archives all tell the story which we hope the members, friends and supporters will find interesting and even inspiring.

So if you have some old photos and stories about the club that you'd like to share, please drop us a message. Alternatively, members are more than welcome to post directly onto the group FB page. And as ever, suggestions and comments are always appreciated.

Many thanks to Lindsay Reid ( #1) and Lee Spence ( #2&3) for the photos.