Club News

Hats off for Ioannis Katsifarakis (aka ‘Giannis’) who has successfully qualified as a BSAC Ocean Diver after completing his course at Eight Acre Lake last weekend. We’re all now hoping he will organise a 2020 Mediterranean dive trip for club members to his home in Crete!! No pressure Giannis! Well done, and well deserved.  

Greetings Divers – The 2020 Farnes trip is now open! The club has booked 24 places on Billy Shiel’s ‘Glad Tidings 8’ for 18-19 July 2020. The cost for boat diving is £100 for 2 days diving, 2 dives per day. Suitable for all diver grades. The Farnes consist of 15-20 small islands and rocky

Hi all, Despite my best intentions to keep the cage’s load light, well basically, I failed. Things are very busy in the pool and most of my continuity planning has failed too but heigh ho! So to minimise the impact on the cage I thought we might have two ‘waves’ of trainees going in. I’ll

Please join me in congratulating Dominik Szűcs who has today successfully qualified as a BSAC Ocean Diver at Eight Acre Lake. Dominik has struggled a little bit with his ears during training, but he has battled on, finally logging the underwater hours required for the Ocean Diver qualification. Well done Dominik!!

We salute Will Booth who has successfully qualified as a BSAC Sports Diver following his course completion in August. All of these Sports Divers are coming out of the woodwork – it’s like ‘whack-a-mole’!! Seriously, well done to Will who undertook some tough diving out at the Summer Isles this year. He has remained focus

Hi all, No try-dives this week so we can make a lot of progress with our Ocean and Sport Diver trainees. Chris N will be working with Humphrey in the pool. Richard will continue with Andy and Dave C with Abbie on pool work. David and Sammy will do OS1 with Martin and Will Rob

I’ve provisionally booked Lochaline Boat Charters and Morvern Dive Lodge for a Sound of Mull Dive Trip in June 2020. The dates will be Friday 19th June to Monday 22nd June with an optional stay at Dumbarton Premier Inn on Thursday 18th June. The Diving is from a hard boat with a lift and compressor,