Alas it looks as if the rumours of NDAC's closure are true. From their website today, 18th Feb 2022
This is a real blow to UK diving and training. OK, it's yet another quarry but it was a decent size quarry with a lot of depth, around 80m/260ft, and was the site for of a huge amount of technical training and especially the deeper stuff. In the winter it was the best of the quarries as the visibility was generally OK, compared with bloody awful at all the others.
With Vobster (35m/115ft into the black hole of no vis) being members only, St Andrews being closed (it's 30m/100ft into the silt), the only option is a drive to the Midlands to Stoney Cove (35m/115ft) with its mediocre visibility and long march from the carpark unless you manage to score one of their premium parking spots at a price. Or there's Wraysbury (10m/33ft) -- although it is convenient to park and there's no booking.
Goodness knows what's happening now to the NDAC site.
Had some good times at NDAC. Will genuinely miss it.
This is a real blow to UK diving and training. OK, it's yet another quarry but it was a decent size quarry with a lot of depth, around 80m/260ft, and was the site for of a huge amount of technical training and especially the deeper stuff. In the winter it was the best of the quarries as the visibility was generally OK, compared with bloody awful at all the others.
With Vobster (35m/115ft into the black hole of no vis) being members only, St Andrews being closed (it's 30m/100ft into the silt), the only option is a drive to the Midlands to Stoney Cove (35m/115ft) with its mediocre visibility and long march from the carpark unless you manage to score one of their premium parking spots at a price. Or there's Wraysbury (10m/33ft) -- although it is convenient to park and there's no booking.
Goodness knows what's happening now to the NDAC site.
Had some good times at NDAC. Will genuinely miss it.
