Rochdale Divers

Mick has had a calendar printed for the diving club featuring a different picture each month.  Copies are for sale at £5 each. If you would like copies let me know or give Mick a call. (The pictures are not all from Porth Colomon, despite the excellent diving that was had there recently)

From the Rochdale Observer, 10 September, 1927.   Deep Sea Diver in Rochdale. Repairing a Gas Holder In connection with the repair of the Rochdale Corporation’s largest gas holder, the services of a professional diver have been requisitioned to examine the water tank which seals the holder. Our photograph was taken on Thursday afternoon when the diver [...]

Laura Shannon December 04, 2007 HOCKEY under water? Sounds odd, but reporter LAURA SHANNON went along to Oulder Hill School to find out more about this most unusual sport … AFTER losing my teeth almost a decade ago after being at the wrong end of a hockey stick, taking up the game again wasn’t something [...]

June 12, 2001 Chris Bell spotted the stricken pup in great distress off the coast of the Maldives during a holiday with his wife, Lynne. The couple had taken an excursion trip to see the dolphins but, after a fruitless search, their boat was chugging back towards the harbour when Chris saw something out of [...]

Looking back at the strange and unusual May 13, 2006 THE Observer’s pages have carried some unusual stories and covered many a strange sport down the years…   SNOW badly affected sport in March 1979, but Rochdale Golf Club’s intrepid new captain Eric Bamford beat the weather by driving in the season on skis.   [...]

We have the start of an updated site for Rochdale Sub Aqua Club. Watch this space!