It's Official

It's official. Having ginger hair when your name is Timeeeeeeee makes trees grow out of your head.

Monty Halls Night a Huge Success

Over 100 people turned up to the Monty Halls presentation at the Royal Beach Hotel last night - a sell out. The event was initially organized for the club and we then decided to invite the other dive clubs in the area so there were also members from Portsmouth East, Portsmouth West, Southsea and Cockleshell Divers. PADI and BSAC divers all crossing over to the dark side for this fun event. Monty talked about his second series of Great Ocean Adventures providing some hilarious anecdotes and unseen footage. He talked for just over an hour and managed to sign off some of his books before we all sat down to Steak and Ale pie. It is the first time that so many clubs in the area have got together and on the strength of it, will not be the last. The event also raised £500 which we donated to the Scuba Trust at Monty's reqeust. Many thanks to everyone for supporting the event - we hope to see you again soon.

August Newsletter

I have published the August Newsletter on the website for those of you that don't receive it by email. Includes a report on the BBC work in the Bahamas. Click here to go to the web page.

I'm Back - and Greeted with Speedo Action!!!

Just got back from the Bahamas - full report will follow in the newsletter, but essentially, the boat went down (after some diplomatic wrangling), it landed upright (phew) and the film of the sinking looks fantastic. However, in a weekend that saw 4 new nitrox divers and 10 open water divers I was horrified to find some rather offensive speedo action going on. Has the Bootneck taken over from Timmy in the dodgy underwear photo department?

Congratulations to new OWSI's

Congratulations to Jules, Rob and Tim aka Ginge aka 'Timmy' for passing their IE this weekend. They have all put in a tremendous amount of hard work over the last few weeks which showed in the outstanding high scores they all received.

A message from the Bahamas

Just wanted to say, well done to all the IDC candidates who finished today. A lot of hard work, lots of contacts, values and non-diving training aids. Many thanks to Dale at F&B for finishing the training for me as I had to rush out here at short notice to do some prelims for the Bahamas film shoot. Been with Mantas today so just thought you might like to see what I have been getting up to by posting a photo. Will tell you all about it when I get back.

Quick as you can!!

Congratulations to all the students that passed their Open Water Course this weekend. With loads of sunshine and laughs it was a thoroughly enjoyable course........especially the bit where Wyndam's dry suit leaked catastropically leaving all his clothes drenched.....and the bit where he tested the students powers of observation by turning up with his Tshirt on inside out....oh and the constant micky taking of the weekend's catch phrase, 'Quick as you can'.....

Fire Station Open Day

Well it was certainly the weather for it! Yet again we put the pool up for Somerstown Fire Station and 50 people had the opportunity to see what Scuba Diving is like. Thanks to everyone that helped make the day such a success.

New AIs and EFR Instructors

Its been a busy week in the Centre. 4 new AIs who now move on to join the OWSI programme and 6 new EFR Instructors. Well done all of you. I will stick the course photos in the Gallery when I get back.

Oops, forgot to mention the Rescue Course

What with planning for overseas trips and running an Instructor Development Course this week, I even managed to forget to tell you about the Rescue course successes. Well done to all 6 students who completed the training. We hope to see you join the ranks of the DMTs soon.

Childrens BBC Filming

Crikey .... here's me about to dash off to the Bahamas to start filming and I havn't told you about the CBBC that happened on 3 August. All good fun. Plenty of lights, cameras and action, thoroughly enjoyable ... eat your heart out Rosey! Anyway, gotta go, flying to Bahamas tomorrow morning. More next month when I report back from Nassau.