Flagship Scuba

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2019 edition of SubSea Magazine
It’s late in December when I walk through the front door of the dive shop “Flagship Scuba” located in Sandycove, Co Dublin. Derek Molloy is busy behind the till and the man I have come to meet, Rory Golden, the owner, is busy servicing Spare Air kits...

The RNLI save lives at sea.
Karen Carty of Dublin University SAC came up with the idea to raise money for this great organisation in 2014 by having a SANTA SCUBA DIVE.
The event has gone from strength to strength each year.

32 years ago today the TITANIC was located in the North Atlantic, 3875m deep, by a joint French – American expedition led by Robert Ballard of Woods Hole Institute, Boston, USA and Jean Louis Michel of Ifremer of France. Here is an excerpt from the journal...

On April 15th, 1912, the TITANIC, lay on the bottom of the North Atlantic, nearly 4000 metres deep. It was one of the world’s greatest sea disasters.
Did you know that Flagship boss, Rory Golden has made 2 dives to the wreck in submersibles? The first one was in August 2000, where he took part in an expedition that raised over 800 artifacts. He made his dive on August 11th, and left a memorial plaque...