Diving with our club isn't like joining one of those other stuffy clubs. We're all about helping you to enjoy your diving, not being the in-crowd.
When we book a coast trip it's exactly the same as if you'd booked the boat yourself, only we can help you find the divers to fill it. All you pay for is an equal share of the boat and your B&B, with whatever air fills you need on top. So why don't you start by coming down to one of our regular Wednesday or Thursday night club dives and get involved. We're always looking for new people to go diving with.
For those of you who wish to continue your weekly circumnavigations of Dosthill we say fill your boots. However a few of the instructional team, including myself, are still offering Diving Workshops on both the Wednesday pool sessions and on the Thursday club dives. These will be free to any member of our club and will consist of sessions aimed at improving your general diving skills, from tweaking your buoyancy to deploying an SMB or practicing free ascents and descents. The level of skills practiced will vary with each divers qualification. Open Water Divers will benefit form the basic skills, whereas Rescue Divers can practice lifts and searches.
We are still holding regular monthly club evenings based at the centre incorporating presentations from suppliers, equipment promotions and talks on various interesting (hopefully) subjects. With Foxhollies pool staying on line we are now hosting these on a separate day to the weekly club nights. Look out for the information on each in the regular newsletters.
The cost of the pool session is still only £5. Pool session with tank and weights is only £10. Finally, pool session with full equipment hire is only £15. Please support the pool as it is now there purely for you guys to use and as they say, if you don’t use it you may well lose it! 8.30pm at Foxhollies leisure centre, or earlier at Aquasport to get your kit.
***Kit Hire***
The regular Thursday club nights are again running in full swing at Dosthill. £8 gets you in, £5 with tank and weights and £15 for a full set of kit. Dosthill now opens later in the afternoon (call them for exact opening times) but we still aim to be there for 6.30pm. Then it's off to The Fox pub for apres dive!
PLEASE CALL THE CENTRE IN ADVANCE AND LET US KNOW YOU'RE COMING FOR EQUIPMENT AND WE'LL HAVE IT READY FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
***Trips & Travel***
Huge smiles all around from the happy divers who returned from our latest Farnes Trip. Some fantastic sea conditions and better than usual visibility meant that all the dives went off without a hitch and the seals were more than obliging whether posing for the camera, or trying to steal themselves a pair of fins!
For those of you who missed out, don't despair as we'll be heading back up for the last launch of the season over the weekend of 9th and 10th October. Check back on the UK Travel page soon for more information on the what, when and how much.
The Next Portland Fish and Ships weekend is on the weekend of 25th and 26th Spetember. Call or email for more details, head to the UK Travel page or look out for more info on the next newsletter.
You're not too late to book your place on the June 2011 Red Sea holiday. We have a fantastic boat touring the route known as Northern Wrecks. Says it all really. This fully escorted trip is always one of the highlights of our diving calendar and is the talk of the club for months after our return. Diving famous sites such as the the Thistlegorm and the Dunraven to name a couple, you are guaranteed a fantastic and memorable trip.
There has been a massive increase in the number of divers looking into Digital Underwater Photography, as well as a huge increase in the number of photos of 'blurry blue fish bums' floating around the internet.
Why not invest a little time in making that expensive piece of kit work FOR you instead of AGAINST you! Here at Aquasport we can offer your Digital Underwater Photography Specialty with the added bonus our very own professional cameraman Adam Stokoe. With years of experience with ITV, BBC and portfolio photography for companies like Butlins and Centre Parcs, you're guarenteed to get unbeatable one-to-one professional tuition.
