Our club has many types of divers who have interests in many different fields. They include photographers, those with interests in marine life, wreck divers, mixed gas divers, some who prefer catching fresh lobsters or scallops as opposed to buying them in Tesco, and some who like to rescue artifacts.

Our local RIB diving can range from The Isle of May in the Forth estuary to Burghead in the Moray Firth. Our most used launching places are Anstruther, Gourdon, Stonehaven, Peterhead, Rosehearty, Portknockie & Burghead. This lets us dive almost anywhere within 70 miles of Aberdeen; typically this is done on a Saturday or Sunday. During the summer months we try to get out one evening a week, almost always Stonehaven though. We do sometimes do shore dives, but diving from a boat is so much easier and more rewarding.

We usually organize about 4-6 trips farther afield each year. These can be weekends, long weekends, or even whole week trips, either towing the RIB or chartering a hard boat. Accommodation can vary from B&Bs, bunkhouses, liveaboards & for the more adventurous camping .
One trip that has been firmly on our agenda for the last 10 years is a long weekend in November aboard MV Jean Elaine in Scapa Flow. We leave Aberdeen at around 06.30 on Friday, catch the lunch time ferry, get one dive in the afternoon, two on Saturday, two on Sunday & two on Monday, jump on the afternoon ferry to Scrabsster and after a 4 hour dive we are home for 10pm. The water is still a reasonable temperature, visibility is always very good, we always have the place to ourselves, all at very reasonable rates. It is not much wonder that this trip books up a year in advance.

We have a small band of mixed gas wreck divers who on top of diving the local wrecks, usually organise one or two week long trips per year. They regularly dive from Orkney and Wick and have been out to Donegal a few times. They are mainly diving in the 50-85m range, most of the local gas diving depths is around the 60m mark & not very far off shore. We are blessed in this area with an abundance of wrecks which are seldom dived & many undived. 2008 has seen us diving several previously undived virgin wrecks off the East coast, one of our gas diving team has GPS marks & side scan sonar images of around 20 wrecks we are certain to be undived (one of the perks of working in the oil industry).

Several of our members organise trips abroad, though the club itself has not organised a large trip for a couple of years, mainly because it's hard to organise a trip to everyone’s taste. So these tend to be done in smaller groups. In recent times we have had divers in Galapagos, Belize, Bikini atoll, Florida Keys, Norway, South Africa, Canary Isles, Red Sea, Barbados, Cyprus, South China Sea – the list goes on.

Whatever your grade, style, or preference of diving, I'm sure you will find that someone else in our club who shares the same interest.