Nov 2009 to Jan 2010

Inside this Issue

1. Message from diver Dicky

2. 2010 Diving

3. Sunday Nights

4. Pool Rota

5. Diving Medicals

6. Social/Upcoming Events

7. Try Dives

8. Octopush

9. Diver Reports

10. Pool Costs

11. Marc’s Training Update & Latest Qualifications

1. Message from Diver Dicky

It’s been very quiet during the winter months, presumably no-one fancied ice diving. But if anyone has been doing some diving or training give me some information. You don’t have to write much – when, where and what you saw – was it any good?  Don’t worry too much about content and grammar, it can be jazzed up and its edited and proof read by Karen’s mum before issue anyway. Cheers Diver Dicky

2. 2009 Diving

Location	Boat	Date	Dive Opens
Pembrokeshire	Wandrin Star	21-23rd May	1st January
Eastbourne	Our W	13th June	2nd May
Eastbourne	Our W	10th July	6th June
Lyme Regis	Blue Turtle	7-8th August	1st January
St Kilda		September	St Kilda

3. Sunday Nights

Pool session (8-9pm), then drinks 9.15 ish in the bowling club (behind pool). Meet other club members, all are welcome and we hardly talk about diving! Lectures held in the same place before pool sessions.

4. Pool Rota

Thanks to all who do the pool rota – collecting pool fees and acting as dry / pool side supervision.  PLEASE try to make your turn so people don’t miss out on a swim because they have to do the pool rota. If you can’t do it let someone know. There is a texting facility now so you will get a reminder.  There will be some new names added this year to help spread the load.

5. Diving Medical Certificate

Club rule – everyone supplies one to Peter (Memberships) prior to going on a club dive. Either done as a self cert, with your G.P, or a dive doctor. Any yes’s on a self cert and you need a proper dive medical. Try Dave Rogers 01277 373974 in Brentwood (was £50 – 2008). I believe the self cert ones are annual so you might have to do another one soon before the dive season kicks off.

6. Social/upcoming Events

Unfortunately there was no Christmas do as there wasn’t a lot of interest within the club and dates were proving too difficult to tie up.

No social events planned at the moment.

LIDS 2010 – probably the best £7.50 you’ll spend this year
27-28 March 2010 London Excel – get some kit or attend seminars

7. Try Dives

We had a small group of scouts come and do try dives over two weeks in November. Luckily they were older scouts so the kit fitted and they all seemed to enjoy themselves.

There is another group coming along on 18 April so it will be all hands to the pool. I’m hoping there will be 16.

8. Octopush

Unfortunately only 6 turned up for the last game I organised.  4 of us had a two on two game. We really need a minimum of 8 people to play a match.

It’s been a while since the last match and in view of the fact that things are quiet in the pool, maybe its time for another match, especially to try out goal mark 1!  I know you are all dying to see what they look like.

Put this in your diaries next game 28 February 2010 – please can any training be suspended for this week.

9. Dive  Reports

Its all quiet on the dive front unless there have been any training dives going on, which given the weather is highly unlikely.

9. The Clubs Website

The new website is up and running and is being tweaked constantly check it out!

10. Marc’s Training Update & Latest Qualifications

Ocean diver training – they are Becks, Adem and Tim.
Derek, Becca, Paul and Peter have been doing Dive Leader training.

Becks and Adem have passed ocean theory exam
Tim passed Sports theory exam.