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Latest News

New Plane in the diving press

Sport Diver have run an article on our new attraction (http://www.sportdiver.co.uk/News/Latest-News/Capernwray-to-add-new-attraction as have Dive magazine! (http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/article.asp?uan=5479 )

The plane is nearly ready-it is up on it wheels, and the final attachments for the wings are being stregthened. The new wreck "Murphy" should also be going in very soon.

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Another new wreck

An added suprise for you all! Yesterday we took delivery of yet another boat destined to join the list of attactions.

It is a 35ft bilge keeled ketch. We are busy stripping it and making it safe-but it should be in the water very soon.

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Working on the 'plane!

We are hard at work preparing the aeroplane for her final flight, which we hope will be in late March.

We are stripping out the cables and piping, and enlarging the entries and exits, before we reattach the wings to the fuselage

 

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Shergar Rides Again!

After a quick trip to the vet for a spot of equine nip and tuck Shergar is back in his original place as one of Capernwray's favourite attractions

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New Compressor

The new Williams and James compressor is now installed and running. It's output is 60cfm, which in laymans terms is a lot! We have tried to keep up with it's filling rate, but it is very fast and even with 8 cylinders filling, we struggle to do so! The good side is that air queues are (or should be) a thing of the past. The down side is that every time we flick it's switch, our electricity bill doubles! The costs of this project are in excess of £15000, again a sign that we are re investing to give our visiting divers the facilites they want and need

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Plane has arrived

HS 748 G-BVOV has "landed" at Capernwray-accompanied by locals intent on finding the plane crash! It now sits at the top end of the car park, in fact it occupies a fair space! We will be working on it over the next few months, and don't yet have a firm date when we will be actually sinking it. Rest assured, that we will be advertising it's sinking date on here-so check back often!

 

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Credit crunching new developments!

Capernwray as always has bucked the trend and is going from strength to strength through the recession. As always we are investing heavily in items to make the site more interesting, fun and user friendly for our valued visiting divers.

Big things first!

Hawker Siddeley 748 passenger aircraft

HS748 G-BVOV will make her last "flight" up the motorway to Capernwray very soon She is a 50 seater passenger plane with a 30m wingspan and a 20m fuselage. The plan is to bring her up in pieces (it may be worth avoiding the M6 on those days!) and set her down in the area between the diving bell and the Candida. She is intact, but we will have to remove the wings and the tail from her in order to get her here! Rest assued that all bits will be re-united once she is in the water!

New 60cfm compressor

We took delivery today of a Williams and James 60cfm water cooled compressor to add to our existing compressor bank. It seems to be famous last words, as each time we add to our air pumping capacity and prophesize that there will be no more air queues, you all just buy more air(!) but this should dramatically reduce waiting times for cylinder fills at peak times.

 In additon, we have added to our oxygen bank, to help with the increased demand for EANx and Oxygen fills. We are now banking 6 cylinders of oxygen, so pressures should remain high

We all live in a yellow submarine

Watch out for another quirky attraction due to go in the water soon. Hand built by Mike Halls, the yellow submarine will join Shergar, Lord Lucan, the Pigs and Sandy as an ideal and somewhat weird underwater attraction.

 And last but not least chairs, yes you read right chairs! We have ordered 100 new "Bistro" chairs for the cafe, and have three brand new outdoor tables for the sun areas. So when you aren't underwater exploring all the new attractions, you can sit in comfort! 

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Capernwray IDC's 2009

We are planning to run PADI Instructor Development courses on the follwing dates:

28th August-3rd September and 9th-15th October.  It will be possible to do AI or OWSI (only) portions of the IDC if required.

As we have a full time resident Course Director, we can be very flexible on timing, and can run Instructor Specialities on demand. If you are an independent instructor who has candidates for IDC's, why not get involve din our referal program... Or combine this with IDC Staff....!

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Marine Mammal medic course

The British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) will be running a Marine mammal medic course at Capernwray on Saturday 17th Jan 2009. It is a one day course, with a combination of theory and practical training in how to deal with strandings of whales, dolphins and seals.

There are a few spaces left on the course, so if anyone is interested, please contact Adam at the centre. Spectators are also very welcome!

 

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Wednesday late night opening

Last Wednesday (5th November) was the last late night for 2008. Wednesday opening times are now 10 to 5pm.

Late nights will re-start on Wednesday 1st April 2009 (and this is not a joke!)

 

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Welcome

Hello and welcome to our re-vamped website. Over the next few weeks, we hope to add lots of new and updated imformation about us and our site, and we hope to make this version even more popular and user friendly than our old one!

In the meantime, if you have anything you would like to see on the site please feel free to let us know. We have already incorporated real time temperature and visibility info, at your request, but would be keen to hear if there is other things that you need to enhance your visits here.

We now have a "proper" gallery. If you have Capernwray images you would like to share with others, please feel free to send them to us.

We expect to be adding lots to this site-check back often!

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