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04/09/2026

Aidan diving Wraysbury Dive Centre. He had a ball. Found the submarine, lots of wreck boats, the caves, huge perch and lots of young fish. Healthy lake. Great fun.
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03/09/2026

This is the Oceanic White Tip that bit Martin (Aka Shark Bite). When Martin took the bite, he photographed the culprit. Notice the hook in the mouth. Fortunately this shark was vegetarian and let Martins arm go. If you want to learn how to dive with sharks, contact Divecrew 01344 771113.

Schools FREE multi-media talk from Shark Bite on diving with sharks. Or, wreck diving. Conserv nation. Or, how scuba diving has so many benefits for young divers. These talks are FREE.

03/09/2026

Aidan does the caves Wraysbury Dive Centre. This is young Aidan, first time in a dry suit. Fantastic diver traim and buoyancy. He enjoyed some great aquatic life and wrecks on three private guided dives. Divecrew Always plenty to see.

03/09/2026

Aidan does the caves Wraysbury Dive Centre. First time in a dry suit. Three dives. Private guide. Well done Aidan.

25/08/2026

Who remembers Release The Houds TV series?

Who's hand is coming out of the Dark Water?

Divecrew Different.

22/08/2026

https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/gallery/charity-and-community/708800/scuba-diver-lives-up-to-lord-of-the-rings-name-as-he-recovers-lost-ring-from-river-thames.html

Divecrew pulls it off again, searching the River Thames for a lost ring. A needle in a haystack, found. And what a stunning ring it is too. Lizzy thought the ring was lost forever, very happy to put it back on her finger.

A specialist search and recovery diver has lived up to his nickname, “Lord of the Rings”, as he recovered a ring from the River Thames near Shiplake.

20/08/2026

This is what started the ring finding.

19/08/2026

A specialist search and recovery diver has lived up to his nickname, “Lord of the Rings”, as he recovered a ring from the River Thames near Shiplake.

Josie Colin’s daughter Izzy, 26, who lives in London, was back at her family home in Highmoor for the weekend and went swimming during a boat trip.

As she was pulling on the rope to get back up into the boat a ring “flew off” her finger, her mum Josie recalled.

She said: “It was a ring I had designed and had made for her 18th birthday with gold from a ring that belonged to her grandfather’s sister and two small diamonds from a ring from her late great grandma.

“We knew roughly where it went down but it was about 2m deep and full of w**ds.”

Ms Colin reached out to Martin Weddell, from Crowthorne scuba-diving firm Divecrew. Mr Weddell is often called to recover lost rings and other personal belongings from the Thames.

He has previously recovered a pair of sunglasses in Henley in July, after Lucas Joosten, from London, lost them near the Angel on the Bridge pub, while admiring one of the boats in the dock.

In June, Mr Weddell helped retrieve the belongings of Croydon resident Asfandiyar and his family, who had suffered a kayaking incident on the Henley stretch of the River Thames.

Ms Colin added: “A friend told me that Martin Weddell was in the Henley Standard recently as he helped find a man’s special sunglasses that fell in the river and I just wondered if there was any chance that Divecrew could possibly help us.

“I had tried other options to no avail, no one could help us. I totally understood it may be deemed a lost cause but I felt like I need to try anything that could possibly work.

“Divecrew immediately said they would help and dispatch Martin.”
On Wednesday last week, having been signposted to the area where the ring had fallen into the water by Izzy and Josie, Mr Weddell used a special pinpointer and carried out a fingertip search.

He searched the area and later discovered the lost ring.
Mr Weddell said: “On hearing of the loss and the history behind the ring, I just had to find it.

“The w**d was about 2m long, silt bottom and no visibility at all.
“I used a special pinpointer — a metal detector — and did a fingertip search of the bottom in the area the ring entered the Thames. Fortunately, Izzy and Josie were accurate in identifying the precise area but it was still a needle in a haystack, one of the toughest searches I have completed.

“After some pinpointer false alarms, wire and tin cans, the pinpointer went off again after 46 minutes of methodical searching underwater.

“After feeling around in the dark and silt, I felt the ring.
“I never guarantee finding what is lost as conditions can be very challenging but I am so happy to reunite Izzy and her precious ring, it meant so much to me to retrieve it for her.”

Ms Colin added: “We were so grateful to him, it was a really precious ring and we thought it was lost for good so we were over the moon when he found it.”

19/08/2026

https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/gallery/charity-and-community/708800/scuba-diver-lives-up-to-lord-of-the-rings-name-as-he-recovers-lost-ring-from-river-thames.html

Lord of the Rings does it again. Divecrew Different.

Here is Lizzy sporting her family heirloom, thought lost forever. Divecrew despatched the master ring finder. It was a needle in a haystack. About 5 metres off an island in the River Thames, silt bottom, w**d at least 2 metres tall. After two different location searches, the second one for 46 minutes, the ring was found in zero viz, fingertip search in the silt and w**d. IT WAS JUST MEANT TO BE. This is Divecrew putting scuba experience and expertise into action within the community.

A specialist search and recovery diver has lived up to his nickname, “Lord of the Rings”, as he recovered a ring from the River Thames near Shiplake.

19/08/2026

Our Lord of the Rings has just been interviewed by the Senior Reporter from SWN. SWN provides news stories to all the national media. Lets see what happens. Divecrew Different.