Tonight's club meeting at the community centre has been cancelled. However some of us will be meeting in the Penny Black around 8pm for Christmas drinks.
Merry Christmas
As the new Snorkelling Instructor for 2010 I would just like to say that I am really looking forward to hopefully taking on a few new members through snorkelling and parents joining as dive or social members.
On the weekend of the 13 and 14 February I carried out a snorkelling instructor course at Radley Sports Centre in Abingdon.
Over the first part of the weekend we learnt to become a Snorkel Diver which involved learning the basic skills through theory and practical work which included fitting equipment, finning techniques, snorkel use, mask clearing, entries and exits into the pool and surface dives.
That evening I had to prepare a practical lecture on surface dives for 10 minutes (thank you to Colin for the loan of the slate!)
The season of activity nights continues on Monday 9th Feb. with a discussion by Tim on the SeaSearch project. As many of you know, Tim is a keen underwater photographer and spends a lot of time studying the wildlife most of us pass by on our dives. The SeaSearch project is a great cause and by participating you may not only assist the organisers and researcher but may also spend more time observing the wonderful underwater world.
Starting in January 2009 we'll be holding an activity night on the 1st Monday of the month (where possible). Most of the activities will try to focus on some aspect of scuba-diving, but we'll also be organising other fun evenings too. The current programme of event include: Knots, The Sea Search project, hand signals, and navigation. If any club members have suggestions for other subjects they'd like to see covered please forward them to Steve, Alan or Lorna.
The 1st Activity night will be Knots and will be on Monday 12th January 2009
Please support the club and try and make it along. "The more the merrier" as they say.
The competition to design a new club logo is now closed. We would like to thank all those that took time to submit their entries. After much deliberation a winner has been chosen.
New merchandise will soon be available. If any club member would like to pre-oder t-shirts, polo shirts etc. please submit your request Steve at the dive club.