The club is well equipped and used to carrying out Try Dives for members of the public and clubs who are keen to get a taste of diving. It was therefore no suprise that the club agreed to take on a Scout group of 48 over 3 pool sessions. Richard arranged and co-ordinated the event also summoned all the resources necessary to carry out a Try Dive for 16 kids in one evening pool session.

I am pleased to report that thanks to all the support from our members that the three sessions went extremely well. All the scouts thoroughly enjoyed their first diving experience in the murky depths of the pool.

Managing to train that many young scouts of varying swimming ability in over-sized diving equipment, is not easy and it’s a credit to the all instructors that took part. They could not have carried out the training without the assistance of the poolside members that helped with moving all the equipment and kitting out the students.

On behalf of the club, thanks to everyone that helped in any way and especially Richard who organised the event.

After waiting for what seemed like a lifetime for our next dive to come around it finally arrived. Eastbourne on Sunday 31st May, the weather looks good all week and with the wind coming from the north, although a bit chilly, the forthcoming dive on the South coast should be no problem.

On Saturday the weather was great and had warmed quite a bit. It was therefore assumed that the dive the next day was on. So it was just a formality for Dave to call the skipper on Saturday evening for him to confirm that the dive is on. Alas, a call to the skipper on Saturday evening was bad news.  He informed Dave that as Saturday had progressed the wind swung round to the east and had gathered enough strength to make diving less than comfortable and that he was calling the dive off!

Lets hope we have better luck in a couple of weeks when we are booked to dive Eastbourne again.