July Newsletter

The July Newsletter is written and available online. It is a bit shorter than normal but that is due to the fact that I am going away on holiday tomorrow and ran out of time, rather than not having loads to tell you! Still some good stuff in it including plans for the next Club weekend and a report from the Malives. Click here to go there.

New Open Water Students

We went to Vobster for a change to complete the OW course this weekend and many congratulations to all the successful students. A special word must go out to Dumb and Dumber, the Young brothers. Gary Young (not our new instructor but the Shamu variety of "Young") who did so well on the navigation he is now known as "Garmin", and Lee cried like a baby during the mask removal. And also ..... come on Zara tell all .... we don't recommend that you put your underpants on your head during the surface practice for navigation. Luke, the human javelin, had a face fungus issue leading to a leaking mask so had some interesting facial hair designs going on. But, a great course, great fun, lots of good natured banter and we look forward to more hilarity at the next club meeting!

Try Dives for Youngsters

We have been doing a fair bit of work with some of the youngsters in the area - the last session was at the Pyramids. We had great fun and so did the youngsters as you can see.

Club Weekend in Portland

It was blowing a bit of a gale up in Portsmouth, but we were lucky in Portland for the club weekend. The RIB did 8 trips in total over the weekend with students and club members making the most of it. With around 30 people in total making the trip we filled the bunk house so it was a good job that some made their own arrangements for accommodation.

There were some course successes at the weekend as well with Advanced and Open Water being finished. Well done to all of you - not quite sure what the photo was all about, but I'm sure I will find out in due course.

Hearty Congratulations!

Yes hearty congratulations (a nautical sort of word that should be said with gusto methinks) to our newly qualified Deep Divers. Well done to Mark, Blain and Dave and glad you enjoyed the programme.

June Newsletter

The June Newsletter is available on line by clicking here. There is loads of stuff and features inside including, our new 9m RIB, bringing fast, convenient diving to the Solent area , details about the summer ball, a change in our powerboat business (lots of opportunities), reports from Daf and Bev as they travel around the World, and lots more.

Navigation? What's that all about?

Many congratulations to our Deep Diver speciality students who passed the course last weekend. Barnes Wallis was running the course assisted by Stu and it was good to have Eric along from Gloucestershire. The navigation objectives of the course were .... well challenging to some of the students, but extremely beneficial and great fun. See if you can work out who found it a bit of a challenge from the photo !!!!!!

A Good Club Night - Next club night in September

With quite a lot of club members away on holiday the numbers were down at bit at the July Club night last Thursday. However, still a healthy 40 or so were there for a lovely evening and BBQ. Just to remind you, the next "normal" club meeting will be on 3 September as the Summer Ball is in August. Tickets for that event are selling fast so let us know if you want to come. More details on the next newsletter which will be out in a couple of days.

Course Success

Just a quick "well done" to our successful Rescue Diver course candidates last weekend. We know you all loved the training. Hope to see you soon on the DM programme.