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Winter/Summer Opening Hours
We are back to Summer Opening Hours (Tuesday - Sunday) on Tuesday 27th March 2012
Please note that with effect from Monday the 7th of November our new winter opening hours are as follows:
Business as usual
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm
Winter Closing
Monday - Closed
Tuesday - Closed
Wednesday - Closed
We will open on demand for a minimum of 25 divers, please telephone 01524 735132 for details.
Telephone & Email will be manned every day.
Apeks/Fourth Element dealer days
Fourth Element and Apeks will be on-site this weekend (6/7 August)with all their latest gear. There will even be the chance to try some of their products out in the quarry. A great opportunity to "try before you buy."
Treasure hunt
Capernwray is holding a treasure hunt this weekend (6/7 August) Up for grabs are lots of prizes including Fourth Elements Arctics and Apeks regulators.
Entry to the hunt is free to all divers. In addition, we will be holding a land-based treasure hunt for children. Entries will be at the shop.
Wednesday half-price evening dives
Another special offer to entice you all to come and visit us!
Wednesday evening dives are now £7 for entry after 3pm. We are open until 9pm, so this will give you a potential 5 hours of diving for just £7!
Special events for summer!
We are holding a series of special events here at Capernwray for summer 2011.
This is in addition to our newly launced loyalty card that gives a free entry for all divers on their fifth visit. These cards are available on you next visit, please don't forget to pick one up!
The events are as follows:
| 23 and 24 July | FREE AIR one free air fill for each entry. |
| 6 and 7 August | Dealer event with Underwater Treasure Hunt. Serious prizes to be won. |
| 3 and 4 September | Capernwray "Back to School" weekend Diver entry £10/day. |
| 15 and 16 October | Each entry gets one free meal |
| 5 and 6 November | FREE AIR one free air fill for each entry. |
Become a PADI Rescue Diver
We will run our next EFR and PADI Rescue Diver Courses over the following dates:
EFR: 30/06/2011
PADO 02 admin: 31/06/2011
PADI Rescue Diver: 6,7 and 13 August.
We still have a few spaces available, please email us for more details.
Super clearance sale
We are getting rid of a load of stock at ridiculously low prices. Lots and lots of bargains to be had with savage mark downs and reductions across the shop. Stock is limited and once it is gone, it's gone!
Come and browse soon!
New Photo gallery
We have added a new photo gallery where you can add your pictures (above and below water) from visits to Capernwray. We would welcome any submissions!
You can add your images here.
In the future we plan to run monthly competitions for the best images and other photography oriented events.
A Sad Announcement
After 15 years and 7 months of burger scrounging and living the good life at Capernwray, Murphys great age finally caught up with him and he died on Sunday 24th April after a very short illness.
Wednesday late nights start again
As of today (30th March) Capernwray will be open until 9pm every Wednesday until 2nd November.
When planning, please remember that the gates will shut at 9pm so the last dive will be at 8pm.
Weather Report
28 January: Clear and sunny-no issues with roads or transport. Weather forecast is for it to continue through to the weekend
Capernwray sinks another!
On Tuesday 28th September, we sank a 32 foot fully intact sailing yacht. Renamed Murphy in hounour of our venerable canine mascot (who has just turned 15!), she now sits bolt upright in 13m of water.
Sinking S.S. Murphy from Adam Hanlon on Vimeo.
Video and pictures of the aeroplane underwater
On March 29th, we sank the aeroplane!
After months of hard work, much careful planning and a few sleepless nights, G-BOV was successfully sunk on Monday. With the exception of the weather, all went according to plan on the day and once the crane had started to lift, it took less than an hour to finish the job! The site was open to spectators, and quite a crowd watched her "ditching", together with TV crews and newspaper reporters here to witness the event.
She now lies in 18m of water, near to the Gypsy Moth, and is a fantastic sight to see underwater! We believe that she is the biggest item added to an inland diving centre, and when you visit her underwater she seems huge!
Capernwray Diving sinks an aeroplane! from Adam Hanlon on Vimeo.
Here is a slideshow of images taken at the same time:
Wednesday Nights
The Dive Center is now open for our late night dives on a Wednesday. Gates open at 10am and close at 9pm with the last dive commencing at 8pm.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.
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
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
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 needPlane 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!
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!
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!
OPENING TIMES
Tue,Thurs,Fri: 10 am-5 pm
Summer late night is Weds: 10am-9pm
Sat & Sun: 9 am-5 pm
Last dives are one hour before "gates closed" time.
PRICES
All divers must be registered with Capernwray before diving.
Qualified Diver Registration - £15
Entry level trainee - £5 for 6 months
Upgrade to Qualified - £10
For summer-minimum age is 10 years.
WATER TEMPERATURE
Water Temperature
Saturday, February 04, 2012
4°C
Visibility
Awesome!