Volunteer divers and ghost net recovery charities have now cleared the SS Epsilon, in Falmouth Bay, of ghost fishing gear.…
Author: Mark Milburn
Mark Milburn
Mark Milburn started diving late in life, at the age of 36 he did his PADI Open Water course. It wasn’t long before he got the bug. Now running his own dive centre, Atlantic Scuba, at Mabe near Falmouth in Cornwall, where Mark completes most of his 300-400 dives a year. As Mark says “it’s a mixture of teaching, commercial and fun dives, that gives me a healthy amount of underwater time each year”.
While diving around Falmouth Bay recently, looking for the old WWII degaussing field he had seen before, Mark Milburn came across what he thought was a possible bomb
While diving around Falmouth Bay recently, looking for the old WWII degaussing field he had seen before, Mark Milburn came…
A group of volunteer divers, led by Mark Milburn, went out into Falmouth Bay yesterday to release seven hundred juvenile lobsters for the National Lobster Hatchery.
A group of volunteer divers, led by Mark Milburn, went out into Falmouth Bay yesterday to release seven hundred juvenile lobsters…
“Scubafest Cornwall 2017 offered more than it had for many years. Diving was always on offer, from several boats, or from the shore. This year there was more to do and see, for the non divers and divers alike.
“Scubafest Cornwall 2017 offered more than it had for many years. Diving was always on offer, from several boats, or…
Ten volunteer divers decided to turn up to try to help with the underwater litter pick, even though the conditions all week had been quite awful. Mark Milburn had been keeping a close eye on the weather and beach conditions. The decision was made to dive only from Gyllyngvase Beach, the conditions at the other beaches were either not suitable or not safe. Fathom’s Free set up their gazebo as a meeting point, for both divers and non divers. Once the meet time had passed, the ten keen divers kitted up, ready to enter what now looked like an inviting piece of water. Each pair were armed with at least one bag each, knowing what they had to do.
Ten volunteer divers decided to turn up to try to help with the underwater litter pick, even though the conditions…
For several years, Mark Milburn and his team of volunteer divers have been collecting rubbish from underwater, around Falmouth. This year they are teaming up with Fathoms Free, Falmouth Bay Residents Association and Falmouth Town Council, to complete underwater, beach and street litter picks, around Falmouth and it’s beaches.
For several years, Mark Milburn and his team of volunteer divers have been collecting rubbish from underwater, around Falmouth. This…
Divers have rediscovered a 17th century shipwreck off Gunwalloe Church Cove in Cornwall, at exactly the spot where the shipwreck scene was filmed in 2014 for the TV series Poldark. First seen by a local diver in 1971 and designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, the wreck of the Schiedam had been buried for many years under the shifting sands of the cove.
Divers have rediscovered a 17th century shipwreck off Gunwalloe Church Cove in Cornwall, at exactly the spot where the shipwreck…
Over the last few weeks, divers and boats in the Falmouth area, have been encountering more and more Barrel Jellyfish…
Scubafest Cornwall has been around for a few years now, originally as DiveFest and run by BSAC. The event is…
For most of the year, our boat Stingray, mainly takes divers out to various dive sites around Falmouth Bay. Sometimes…
On Saturday 15th March, a group of five volunteer divers took 450 baby lobsters out on Atlantic Scuba’s boat Stingray, to…
On February 1st 1914, the sailing barque ‘Hera’ foundered and sank near Nare Head. To commemorate the event, divers attached…