Brian Watts celebrating his 90th birthday on Combesgate Beach
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A much-loved Woolacombe man celebrated his 90th birthday by going for a surf on Combesgate beach.
Brian Watts, a founder member of the Ilfracombe and North Devon Sub Aqua club, formed over sixty years ago, has already been recognised as one of the world s oldest sub aqua divers.
A retired motor mechanic he is well known for his skills in renovating and restoring items recovered from local ship wrecks and has even in the last year written a book about the shipwrecks around the Woolacombe and Mortehoe coastline.