DATELINE :- 3rd February 2000
JOHNO GETS SHIP.
Disabled dive charity gifted 20m vessel
The Johno Johnson Diving Foundation, which provides dive training and activities for the disabled, has been gifted a 20m, 60-tonne ex-trawler by an Inverness shipyard. Plans are to use the vessel as a diving base, but a major refit is required. A massive fundraising programme is under way. The Foundation has also bid to purchase Armstrong Quarry, at Worksop near Sheffield, subject to a National Lottery grant application. It would like to develop the site as a diving and watersports facility. Call the Foundation on 0114 237 5012, or visit website www.sheffieldscene.co.uk/diverscharity