Surfers Against Sewage Autumn Beach Clean: 28th October 2018 It’s The Little Things That Count Increasing awareness of microplastics in the ocean, and our food chain is starting to spread. Soon there’ll be a link between plastics and diseases in humans, but is it all too late? Our volunteers hit Cambois beach for the annual […]
Cambois Beach Clean: 16th September 2018 We like nothing better than hitting the beach and picking up trash. For our latest clean up, we had a bunch of extra reasons to gather our volunteers and head down to Cambois! The Great British Beach Clean Every year in September, the Marine Conservation Society call for volunteers […]
The Fifth Point’s Eco Divers Feature On The BBC The BBC got wind of the fantastic efforts of our eco divers and their commitment commitment to keeping Our Sea Trash Free. They asked if they could interview Nic and film some footage of our divers hard at work. They joined us for our Collywell Bay […]
When Stubborn Marine Life Foils Your Dive Against Debris! As part of our PADI Women’s Dive Day, we organised a shore dive at Knacker Hole in Beadnell. It’s one of our regular dive spots, and as our Adopted Dive Site, it seemed rude not to conduct a survey while we were fun diving! Even though we’re […]
PADI Women’s Dive Day (That Turned Into A Week!) For the past three years, divers from every corner of the globe have come together for PADI Women’s Dive Day to bond over their love of the ocean and a passion for diving. The Fifth Point jumped at the chance to get involved in 2018! Did […]
Nic’s in the Project AWARE Spotlight! We all know how hard Nic and James work to protect their beloved ocean environment. Now Nic has been recognised by Project AWARE and included in a spotlight article as part of their run up to PADI Women’s Dive Day. After four years working in Malaysia, Nic and James […]
Our New Fun Diver Policy Has Landed Our insurance policy has changed and we’re now required to ask for a bit more information before you come diving with us. This change applies to: Qualified divers who join us on shore dives; Qualified divers who join us for boat dives; Qualified divers who take part in […]
We Love Our Compressor We regularly test the quality of our air, but once a quarter we like to get someone independent to come in and verify the results including a dew point test. As we expected, our compressor passed its latest test with flying colours and we’re proudly displaying our latest test cert next […]
Tank Fills Only £3.00 We’re sure you don’t need another reason to jump in the water, but how about some cheap air fills? We’d like to help kick start your diving adventures in 2018! This special New Year deal will last until the 31st March 2018. Your fills will now only cost you £3.00 (£1.00 […]
To Think That This Time Last Year, Our Dive Centre Only Existed In Our Heads! At the start of February 2017, James and I began ripping out the innards of office space and workshops that were the original building. Over those next 4 months, a whole new upper level was built and a bespoke diving […]