Successful Advanced Powerboat Drivers

No diving this weekend, but we were running an Advanced Powerboat course through our RYA training organization Triton RIBs. Although it was a bit chilly, it was dry and great fun. The full moon and a clear sky made the night navigation phase easier than it might have been, however the strong currents tested the drivers ability in slow speed manouevres. Well done to Andy, Chris and Alex. In the future Andy is hoping to be more involved in the boat side of business so you may well see him on the dive boat this season, and Chris is going to be giving a helping hand too, so look out for him.

Supporting the Royal Navy

When a bunch of Royal Navy personnel asked us to help them get an adventurous training qualification at short notice we were only too happy to help. There were 14 lads and one girl who all work at RAF Halton on Harriers and they needed the training running during one week. Having plenty of full-time professional instructors, plenty of equipment and total flexibility in training they came to us. It was a pretty cold week as well, with snow falling at Vobster, but with a new batch of student drysuits in the centre the guys managed to stay reasonably warm during the open water phase of the training. Many of the group will now be off on further adventures diving and we wish them all the best and would like to thank them for being such fun to work with. Photos from the training are on our facebook fan page.

Phil Short Presentation Evening and Club Night - 2 February

We get 2010 off to a great start and start the year off with a great presentation evening. We have Phil Short coming in for the first club night of the New Year. Phil is a technical and cave diving expert of considerable experience. His expeditions have included diving to extreme depths and through some of the most amazing cave systems in the World including previously unexplored caves in Siberia. This is going to be a graphically rich and extremely interesting talk and we hope that you can all come along. The evening is free to club members and just £5 to guests to cover food. It is another charity event and we hope that some if not all of you will want to make a donation towards our current charity "Water Aid" at some stage during the event. The evening is open to everyone, BSAC, PADI, SAA or indeed anyone else who wants to come along for a cracking good night. It is ticket only so please contact us if you want to go. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Club Night 7 January

For the first time we can remember we have had to cancel the club night tonight. Road conditions are still pretty bad due to the ice and the BBC have forecast more snow this afternoon - even if it doesn't snow it is still going to be a bit tricky underfoot and while driving. So unfortunately the Cow Pie and mash,and the unwanted Christmas present raffle will have to wait until Tuesday 2 February. (Note it is on a TUESDAY). Please let us know if you are coming to that one - we will be having the raffle as well as the presentation by Phil Short and it promises to be a good night out so we hope to see you then.