University Of Bristol Underwater Club

Whether you’re a qualified diver or you’ve always been keen to learn, UBUC has something for you!

 

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What we offer

Affordable scuba diving, awesome trips in the UK and abroad, training in all BSAC qualifications, plus our regular socials! Select an icon to find out more.

New divers

UBUC offers training towards the BSAC Ocean Diver qualification. We begin training in October each year.

Continuing training

You can attain your next qualification level with us! We offer additional training up to instructor level, as well as other skills development courses.

Dive trips

If you’re already qualified, come dive with us! We run trips most weekends to locations across the UK, using our two boats, as well as annual trips abroad.

Social activities

We don’t just do diving! We also have many varied social activities such as talks, bar crawls (including with our boats) and visits!

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Eastern Kings September 21st

Eastern Kings September 21st

To mark the start of term a small collection of 4 divers travelled down to meet Georgia in her new home of Plymouth. The plan was simple, one dive on Eastern Kings. Buddied together Joe and I took our sweet fucking time getting kitted up whilst Alex, Georgia and Dom...

Swanage Pier May 16th

Swanage Pier May 16th

11 divers descended to swanage bright and early, except Joe, of course, who was blissfully in bed ignoring our calls. The goal of today’s diving was a lot of drysuit training in preparation for Skomer and some well needed fun diving! We started the day off with a...

Post-AGM Vobby!

Post-AGM Vobby!

Written by Marnie After UBUCs AGM night, 6 divers dragged themselves into consciousness ready for a day of diving…well except for James, who demonstrated an admirable dedication to sleep by completely ignoring his alarms and briefly existing in a parallel universe...

Porthkerris 2026

Porthkerris 2026

On the first week of Easter break, nearly 70 UBUCers journeyed down to Cornwall for wonderful week of diving and adventures. Read about the chaos we got up to 🙂 Friday 20th – Jack Clothes (and beverages) are loaded into cars at Bristol before heading off the...

Vobster 23th Janurary

Vobster 23th Janurary

Written by Lewis CRUNCH BEEP “LEWIS”! A nice evening of packing cars began with potential for multiple divers to get trained but with sadly one fewer instructor than needed, some fun diving in the winters cold of Vobster was required. 6 am alarms go off. Divers...

Mauritius 2026!

Mauritius 2026!

In early January of 2026, a group of us ventured to the sunny island of Mauritius for 13 days to see Mr. Chris B himself. How did they get on? See below!   Sunday 4th by Olly Like all great things, the trip started off with a pint at spoons (who knew there’s a...