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. The object of the club is to ensure that divers conducting their training through Aquasport International have an outlet for group diving activities throughout the year. By joining our club you help make funds available to flourish by organising both diving and non diving events that cover a wide spectrum of interests.
When we book a trip it's exactly the same as if you'd booked the boat yourself, only we 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. We offer regular club events, both diving and non diving with talks, seminars, socials and all kinds of other interesting stuff designed to keep you diving. See what is planned for next year on our UK Travel Page.
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.
Club Pool
Free entry to the pool on Wednesday club nights. As well as our own onsite training pool, we have a large local leisure pool set aside for scuba and swimming every Wednesday evening between 8.30pm and 9.30pm. Entry is normally £5 but is free to club members. Don't worry if you don't have your own equipment, that's free to club members too saving you £15 every time you go.
Free air fills
Limited to two fills per visit unless otherwise arranged, but otherwise an unlimited number of fills throughout the year.
Free Diving Workshops
We will offer all club members free training workshops during our Wednesday pool sessions and Thursday evening club dives.
Unlimited number of trips
We arrange at least 10 UK coastal trips a year plus holidays, dry dives, other weird stuff and inland site visits during the winter months. Both scheduled and non scheduled trips diving can be arranged. As a club member you get first dibs on all trips, events and holidays.
Open planning for trips
In other words you guys can do anything you want with prior agreement (within reason and to do with scuba) with the support, financial and logistical backup of Aquasport International.
More events surrounding each trip
BBQs, beach cleans and other groovy stuff, all in conjunction with our scheduled trips.
Club Nights
We will arrange a minimum of, but not limited to, at least six scheduled club events a year held at Aquasport International featuring talks by equipment manufacturers, celebrity divers and other relevant topics including ‘try it’ evenings.
Seasonal Club Events
Including a Christmas Party, Summer BBQ's, Summer Ball and Halloween Party.
Reduced Kit Hire Rates
You get 50% off normal kit hire fees. Hire for the Thursday club dive will be £10 instead of £15 for full kit and free on a Wednesday pool night. And for those of you who already own your gear we are including lightweight travel equipment and specialist equipment such as DPVs and rebreathers in the offer.
Club insurance
Free third party liability insurance for all club members during club events. We recommend that each diver takes out their own yearly diving insurance such as DAN. Please contact Aquasport International for further details.
Membership
Membership is open to all divers trained by Aquasport International with free limited membership to dependent children and non diving partners. Membership may also be granted to non affiliated divers, regardless of qualification, who have affiliated themselves with Aquasport International and have shown willingness to become involved with the club.
Membership is not open to divers who are actively involved or affiliated with other dive clubs, schools or shops. Such divers however will not be barred from diving events arranged by Aquasport International as set out in the guidelines.
Cost of Membership and Methods of Payment
The cost of membership is £120 per year. You can pay half yearly or annually by cash, card or cheque at the shop. Monthly subscriptions are in full and there is no consession for 'missed months'. If you drop out from the club for 12 months or more membership is renewed as a new member. Otherwise payment is in full of back fees.
Kit Hire
The regular Thursday club nights are again running in full swing at Dosthill for both club members and non members. £6 gets you in, £5 with tank and weights and £15 (£10 for club members) 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.
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.
The cost of the pool session is free to club members and still only £5 for non members. Pool session with tank and weights is only £10 (free for club members) and the pool session with full equipment hire is only £15 (free for club members). 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.
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 last year don't despair.
Head to the UK Travel Page to see the growing list of details for the dive trips, socials and events for club members planned in 2012.
You're not too late to book your place on the June 2012 Red Sea holiday. We have a fantastic boat touring the route known as Boarderlands. 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, 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.
