31 January 2017 – At this month’s social evening we watched one of the talks given at the BSAC Diving Conference 2016.  The talk, ‘Thoughtful Management of Decompression Stress’ given by Neil Pollock was very interesting and most of it…

We were again asked by the Rutlish School CCF to give some of their members an opportunity to have a go with scuba kit so we arranged 2 sessions for them on the evenings of 23rd and 30th January 2017…

Following on from the course Alan Kennedy ran in October 2016, a further five club members met in the ‘shed’ at the bottom of Alan’s garden on 14th January for the O2 administration course refresher.  As before, all agreed Alan…

Michael Fardell from the Historical Diving Society gave a short presentation about the HDS and it work – he was accompanied by Tony Marshall currently treasurer of the HDS but who previously served as vice chairman of the BSAC for 9 years…

At this month’s social event, Paul gave a presentation on diving in Narvik.  This included some historical background to the wrecks and some photos of the trip that took place a few years ago.  We also discussed possible trips for…

On Saturday 1st October, eight club members met in the ‘shed’ (bit more than just a shed!) at the bottom of Alan’s garden for the O2 administration course. Steve and Kirsten were doing this as part of their Dive Leader…

Our social evening this month featured a talk by Heather Coutts on Free Diving.  Heather used to be a scuba diver but once she tried free diving she hasn’t put tanks on her back again!   Heather gave a presentation…

On 14 & 21 March we were able to offer some of the members of the Rutlish School CCF an opportunity to try out scuba diving.  With 6 cadets on both nights (plus their commander having a go on the second evening) we think…

Andrew & Jenny are determined to make sure that their little grey brain cells keep active so attended a weekend course (5/6 March) at the University of East Anglia.  The course was quite intense and covered a large number of…

This month’s social/info evening was a session on dive planning given by Bryan Stone.  An illustrated talk took us through the main things that need to be considered when planning a dive.  Very useful for anyone looking at doing their Dive…