View the gallery The British Sub Aqua Club
Articles  RSS Feed available

Here's a list of articles posted by club members. Please feel free to browse around.

  
 
Special mid-week DRY DIVE at the London Diving Chamber
Submitted on 02-Dec-2009 13:09:34 by Adrian Colegate. Updated on 05-Jan-2010 10:36:50

I’m organising a special mid-week "dry dive" to the London Diving Chamber.

The visit will consist of a tour around the facility, a brief overview of re-compression therapy followed by a 40 or 50 metre dry-dive “in the pot”. You can bring your dive computers into the chamber (in a bucket of water) to record your perfect dive profile.

This is also a great opportunity to experience in a safe environment the effects of nitrogen narcosis brought on by deeper diving.

This trip is open to all qualified divers over 18 and costs £40 per person.

The date provisionally booked is Thursday 11th Feb.

The session starts at 18:30 and the chamber is located at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth which can be found here…

Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
60 Grove End Road
St Johns Wood
London
NW8 9NH

Nearest Station: St John's Wood on the Jubilee Line

Depending on numbers and time, we'll either do 10 people down to 40m or multiples of 6 people down to 50m.

IMPORTANT
The London Diving Chamber is a working facility which means if someone needs to use the chamber, our booking will be "blown out" and will need to be rescheduled. Neither our dive club or the London Diving Chamber are responsible for any costs incured by attendees unable to "dive" i.e. travel / accommodation costs.

Adrian


 
Diving in 2010 presentation
Submitted on 22-Dec-2009 23:41:18 by Clive Murphy. Updated on 23-Dec-2009 10:16:49 by Adrian Colegate

We had a very good presentation on all of the Dive Trips and Expeditions planned for 2010 which if all goes to plan could surpass our trips and expeditions in 2009 for the range and variety and meet our members' needs at all levels of experience.

You can access the Powerpoint presentation that was given via the Downloads feature on the Home page.

Please contact in the first instance the Presenter of each section of the slide show if you want to book a space, but don't leave it too late! If you have any queries about the suitability of a dive or the qualifications required, please contact your Diving Officer, Clive Murphy on 07979 540 839.

Please note that only the main diving events were presented. Specifically those that require significant advance booking to get the appropriate tides, boats or accommodation. Details of other diving and social events can be found directly from the Club calendar feature on the Home page.

 

Happy Diving in 2010


 
BS-AC Branch of the Year 2009 Awards
Submitted on 28-Nov-2009 01:18:36 by Adrian Colegate. Updated on 15-Dec-2009 21:42:56 by Clive Murphy

We're absolutely chuffed-to-bits that Mid Herts Divers have been awarded 2nd place in the 2009 BS-AC Branch of the Year awards held amongst all of the BS-AC branches worldwide representing over 33,000 divers.

We were pipped to the post by Calypso Divers - a much deserved BS-AC Centre of Excellence in Malta.

A club is only as good as it's members, so a big thank-you goes out to all our enthusiastic members who have joined the club, dived with us, attended SDCs, progressed their diving qualifications and achieved instructor grades this year.

Our Chairman Rod Reeves and Diving Officer Clive Murphy received the Branch's citation at the Diving Officer's Conference on December 5th in London, and met representatives of Scubapro-Uwatec who kindly donated the prize worth over £1000 of 5 of the latest Aladin dive computers.

The citation reads: "This award is presented by Scubapro to the British Sub-Aqua Club branch who have done the most to promote the sport in terms of diving, training and member recruitment"


 
Fort Bovisands - August 20th to 22nd August 2010
Submitted on 05-Jan-2010 10:32:37 by Adrian Colegate. Updated on 05-Jan-2010 10:34:26

Due to the lack of places early in the season I have been forced to put off the Plymouth trip till August. Discovery Divers have the weekend of the 21-22nd August free and I am planning on booking this if there is interest in the trip. Details are as follows:

Diver Level – Experienced Ocean Divers – with the OK from the DO and above (e.g divers who have sea dived before off Swanage. This trip would be an ideal next step)

Number of places: 10

Cost
£80 for two days boat diving on a shuttle service the same as a RIB. They have a fast hard boat capable of 30 knots.
£35 for two nights accommodation in bunks.
Total £115

(Twin rooms are available for extra cost ~£30)

Plus additional cost of
  • Fuel
  • Food
  • Air (£3.50 7-15L) / Nitrox (which must be requested before hand, price TBC)
Fort Bovisands encompasses accommodation, dive boat pick up, food, air and a bar all in one very compact location. Once you have arrived there is no real reason to leave the Fort.

I am aiming for all wreck diving between 20 – 30m depending on experience and qualification of divers. If conditions / experience requires a shallower drift dive will be done instead of a second wreck dive each day.

For a list of wrecks visited regularly please see:

www.discoverydivers.org

I would like to start collecting the deposits in the New Year to guarantee the reservation with Discovery Divers as a, their booking are getting filled up and b, its a great tidal weekend for diving. The deposit is £30. Deposit by the end of Feb, then places will be opened up to other clubs.

Please advise if interested …

Take care and Merry Christmas,

James Coxell
 


 
Another new wreck at Stoney Cove - The MV Belinda
Submitted on 10-Dec-2009 18:18:52 by Adrian Colegate

More wrecks than Scapa Flow or Truck Lagoon?

Definitely not but Stoney Cove are well on are way to a real sunken fleet with “MV Belinda” to join tug boats “Stanegarth” and “Defiant” in the near future.

“MV Belinda” is a steel built trawler and its intended that “Belinda“ is placed in the 20mtr area not too far from her sister ships.

The staff at Stoney Cove are also on the hunt for a significant item to place in the 35mtr area for the experts amongst us, so keep an eye on the news pages of www.stoneycove.com for further developments.