Event details
| Title | Isles of Scilly 2025 |
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| Region | Nationwide UK |
| Venue | BSAC Centre - Vectis Expeditions |
| Date | 2025-06-15 00:00:00.0 - 2025-06-20 00:00:00.0 |
| Price | £1580 |
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Information from local organiser
Vectis Expeditions, in conjunction with Skin Deep , is planning a week long diving expedition to the Isles of Scilly in June 2025.
The Isle of Scilly is outstandingly beautiful, uncrowded and unspoilt both above water and underwater. There is a rich variety of wreck diving and reef diving (most of the time on the same site) amongst the archipelago of islands, a lot of which is quite well documented but there is also a lot that remains to be discovered and re-discovered. Most diving is “computer friendly” where there is something to look at from the surface (usually the rock the ship hit before it became a wreck) to the bottom, We’ll be staying on the main island, St Marys just outside Hugh Town, where the boat departs from, which is very civilised with a number of pubs, shops, restaurants and a Co-op supermarket.
This expedition will be another great opportunity for divers working towards BSAC Advanced Diver with plenty of opportunities to tick off those additional 20 dives and 600 mins underwater, depth experience, dive leading, dive management to unknown sites.
Outline itinerary
- Saturday 14th June 2025: Departing from Penzance onboard Scillonian.
- A container will be arranged for the groups’ dive kit and dry kit.
- Sunday 15th June 2025 to Friday 20th June 2025: Diving commences, 2 days per day.
- Saturday 21st June 2025 Depart island back to Penzance, arriving late pm / early evening.
Pre-requisite qualifications
- Current BSAC members
- Fit to dive (with in-date self-declaration medical/diving medical).
- Minimum diving grade of BSAC Dive Leader or equivalent (including diver rescue skills).
- Must be capable of launching a DSMB confidently and competently from midwater unaided.
Dive platform
We will be diving from Skin Deep, (www.skindeepdiving.co.uk). It has an air compressor onboard.
Nitrox is not currently available (2024) and the working assumption is that those on rebreathers will take sufficient oxygen for the week along with other consumables.
Accommodation and food
Longstone Lodge as been booked (www.longstone.co.uk) with a series of twin rooms and a bunk rooms and can cater for the whole group. Plan is to self cater to minimise cost.
Budget prices
- Diving charter (12 dives), accommodation, ferry (both ways) and dive container required to transport our kit = £1300
- Air fills, food (self catering), hotel overnight accommodation at Penzance for the night, car parking for the week – Approx. £280 to £450.
Booking Fee / Deposits will be required to confirm booking.
Balance of payments will be staggered to as required to cover incurred costs. For example, it is not possible to book the ferry until September so another payment will be due around then.