Author: Rob Mason

Greetings Divers! Your club is holding its quarterly social gathering this Thursday at the Arcade Alehouse (now called the “Jolly Tap Real Ale Café”), Victorian Arcade, Barnsley from 7:30pm onwards. This is a great opportunity to chat, swap stories and get to know some of your club mates over a friendly drink or two (and

Greetings All – despite that I said that the club does not normally recommend dive kit. Here’s an exception – 4th Element is still offering its 50% deal on Apeks XTX200. A few members have already bought them. These are genuinely amongst the best regs you can buy – cold water certified, balanced diaphragm, UK

Greetings Divers – The 2020 Eyemouth trip is now open to club members! The club has booked 12 places with MarineQuest for 14-16 August 2020 – suitable for all diver grades. The trip places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. To secure your place, please let Trevor know via tr@barnsleybsacdivers.co.uk, and pay

Three cheers for Mackenzie Batley who has successfully qualified as A BSAC Ocean Diver following the completion of her Open Water training at Capernwray. We’ll done to Mackenzie – her lack of height was no match for her sheer determination!! Mackenzie declined a photo as she didn’t want us to blow her cover as a

Big thanks goes to Linda Marsh for her efforts in securing a community grant from Tescos to help buy new equipment for our younger divers. Here she is receiving a cheque for £1000 pounds from the Tesco representative.

Greetings All – Local drysuit manufacturer ‘AzDry’ is popping in to demonstrate its drysuit range to club members at Barnsley BSAC (Metrodome Board Room) on Tuesday 22nd October 7:30pm until 8:15pm. For anyone interested in buying or replacing an old drysuit, this could be just the thing! Azdry was formed by the creators of the

Hi All – Ann has asked me to send out a slightly amended training plan. ~ Ryan, Adam and Rhys – you will now have OT4 with Mark Slater ~ Selina and Kacie – you will now have pool skills with Rob Mason in preparation for Open Water All other arrangements are as before. Reminder