I have recently returned from holiday in Trinidad and Tobago where I managed to get in 2 days of diving.

The sites visited were Coral Garden and The Cathedral, both reefs off Little Tobago island (Atlantic Ocean), and Mt. Irvine Extension and Mt. Irvine Wall, both off the south west (Caribbean) side of Tobago.

As well as the coral, sea fans and other sedentary reef life we came across parrot and angel fish, stingray, turtle, moray eel, giraffe sand eel, boxfish and trumpet fish but disappointingly no sharks!

One trip back from the dive site was accompanied by a tropical downpour; I was the only one smiling as I had my 5mm full wetsuit on. The deckhand disappeared below decks and didn’t appear again until we tied up alongside the jetty.

Derek Hornsby and myself have continued our pioneering work by visiting another new site, at least new to us.

The latest was Gildenburgh Water, a now disused and flooded brick claypit just outside Whittlesey near Peterborough.

The facilities are basic but adequate with changing rooms, toilets, cafe, dive shop and air fills (£3.50 for 15L of air). Admission for divers is £10 with non-divers and car parking free.

Best of all it is very quiet (at least it was on the Friday we went). It is a 2 hour drive from Brigg/Scunthorpe.

There is plenty to see under water with many features marked by shotted buoys and each linked to others by clear guide lines.

You can plan a variety of routes by looking at the map in reception. Just as well that the lines are clear however, as the fine clay particles (of illite from the Jurassic, Oxford Clay) make the visibility rather poor.

We got a 20m first dive and all-in-all we had a good day! Worth a dip if you’re down that way.