Rain what rain

Braving the great british weather over the weekend, another 8 Portsmouth University students passed the PADI distinctive speciality Scientific Diving Techniques. Well done. Congratulations to all 24 students who have succesfully completed the course this year.

In more drier conditons, 8 students succesfull completed the academic and confined components of the Open Water Diver course. Watch this space for further details of their progress.

Dads and Lads

We 'teamed up' with City Boys school and gave some of the pupils and their dads a taster of Scuba diving. As the photo shows they thoroughly enjoyed themselves with a couple signing up to complete the Open Water Diver course. Well done guys.

Triton undecided whether to buy shares in Threshers

With 10 students completing their EFR, 8 students in Horsea doing their Open Water and 8 students doing their Advanced Open Water, the local Threshers did very good business this weekend providing celebratory drinks.

Another Scientific and Technical Speciality Course finished last weekend. Well done to everyone that completed the course.....in the wind.....rain....and odd bit of sunshine.

Bahamas Update

The boat for the Bahama's project has now been found. So we are now going out to the Bahama's to look at sites to sink the boat, and to organise it to be cleaned etc. Once the site has been found a camera team will be going out in August to capture the sinking of the boat. More news when we return from the Bahamas.

Enham Try Dives

On the 10th May we took another group from Enham for trydives. All had a thoroughly enjoyable time and also as a result of previous try dives for Enham two of the students have completed their open water this month.

Scientific Techniques Speciality Gets Underway

It was fun and frolics at Horsea last weekend with the first of our Scientific Diving Techniques speciiality courses taking to the water. The course is unique and has been designed for the university to support the marine biology, environmental science, civil engineering and sports science degree level curriculum.

The 4 day programmes covers a range of topics including survey, report writing and construction, as well as traditional subjects like search and recovery. About 30 students have booked onto the course this year.

April Newsletter on line

The April edition of the Newsletter is available for download if you didnt get one through the post. Click here to go to the web page.

Charity Donations

Just to let you know that this week we have sent off cheques to the following charities:
Lifeboats - £500
Rowans Hospice - £1000
Rainbow Centre - £1000
Project AWARE - £500

And many thanks to everyone at the club night last night who helped us raise another £94 for good causes.

May 2007 Club Night

Well monthly meetings seem to be all the rage sudddenly and it was another good club night at the Royal Beach last night. Numbers were slightly down at 60 but it was still a good social gathering with excellent food and company. Monthly club meetings are a great way to meet up with like minded people for a chat and a few drinks so why not pop along if you havent been yet. Dont forget that plenty of food is laid on free of charge for club members (and only £5 for guests) but we ask that you let us know if you are coming so that we can make sure there is enough. The next monthly club meeting will be on 7th June. See you there.