Date: November 4th 2008

POOL NIGHT BACK TO WEDNESDAY AT WHITCHURCH

Pool News
Back to school this week – Whitchurch followed by the Fox and Hounds!

Equipment

If you need equipment for pool or the weekend, please let Steve or Tristan know - please be aware that late returns will be charged for!!

Compressor News

Was at Bristol Channel Diving yesterday and Brockie advised his compressor is out of action until at least Wednesday – so be warned!

 Dive News

We Dived at Dawn!

Halloween - and some very scary things down at Cossie !! Only 4 eventually braved the early morning cold to check in a last dive for the Club of the Year Award. Mark – not known for his abilities as an early riser was a victim of a phone which had not automatically reset itself to GMT. When asked why he hadn’t realized when it was so dark, answered “How would I know how dark it was at 6.15 – I’m never up then!”  I found a use for the trident which I’d brought along as part of the props, it was great for hitching a lift - just hooked it onto Steve’s cylinders. Adrian for some reason enjoyed it so much he actually did more than the obligatory 15 minutes!!

Thanks to everyone who has helped me list all the dives for our effort as Dive Club of the Year!!

 Dive Show

It was nice to see old friends at the diver show, including Mike from Isle of Man, Peter Hambly from Furious (complete with Mark’s advertising CD on show) and Dave, dragging all would be commercial divers onto the stand when not running around looking for freebies! I think everyone had a good time and probably spent far too much money – especially in the bar – £3.50 a pint!!!!!!

 
Winter warmer November 8^th & 9^th

^Margaret has confirmed that we are staying at the house If anyone requires addresses or directions either speak to me or got to the Skin Deep website – http://www.skindeepbandb.co.uk/map.htm address of the house is 6 St Anne’s road Weymouth DT4 9LW

 Having checked the figures, the actual cost per head is £80. I may not make this Wednesday, so if you haven’t paid me the balance, please ensure that you have it for the weekend! I would guess that Ian would appreciate crispy cracklies as opposed to cheques!

 We should be on Skin Deep which has a compressor, however believe Ian is going to charge for air.

 Divers/deposits

		balance
anne	£80.00	£0.00
steve	£40.00	£40.00
mark		£80.00
tristan	£80.00	£0.00
andy p		£80.00
teresa	£80.00	£0.00
adrian	£65.00	£15.00
russell	£70.00	£10.00
brian	£50.00	£30.00
rhian	£80.00	£0.00
andy lewis	£80.00	£0.00
bill	£20.00	£60.00

Manacles May 2009

 I have confirmed the rib as well as the hard boat with Dive Action, so can I please ask for deposits from those who have yet to pay! Please remember that if you put your name down for diving, you will be responsible for paying even if you cant make it!!

	Paid	Balance
anne	£135.00	£0.00
steve		£135.00
mark	£30.00	£100.00
tristan	£90.00	£45.00
teresa	£35.00	£100.00
john	£50.00	£85.00
Nick	£30.00	£105.00
brian	£30.00	£105.00
phil	£30.00	£105.00
Rhian	£20.00	£115.00
Andy	£20.00	£115.00
andy copper	£50.00	£85.00
second boat
alex		£135.00
ali		£135.00
james cleary	£65.00	£70.00
Jake		£135.00
Nick		£135.00
Billl	£10.00	£125.00
Richard		£135.00
Kas		£135.00
Andrew pritchard	£30.00	£105.00
Andy Powell		£135.00

There are some leaflets which I picked up from the Dive Action stall at the dive show if anyone wants any information. I would recommend sorting out accommodation sooner rather than later given that we are going down for the bank holiday weekend. Below are a few suggestions or go to the Dive Action website at: http://www.diveaction.co.uk/

B&B’s

Parc an Grouse, St Keverne
Tel: 01326 280259

Mrs R Kelly, Trevinock, St Keverne
Tel: 01326 280498

Nicky Glover, Foxglove, St Keverne
Tel: 01326 280284

 Pubs with accommodation

 White Hart Inn, The Square, St. Keverne
Tel: 01326 280325

Camping & Caravan Parks

Gwendreath Farm Caravan Park, Kennack Sands
Tel: (01326) 290666

Little Trevothan, Coverack
Tel: 01326 280260

Heath Farm, Ponsongath, Coverack
Tel: 01326 280521

 

Branch of the Year Award 2008

 Now over – you can all relax- until next year……..

 AGM

Thanks to all those who attended the AGM – the minutes of the meeting will shortly be available on the website.

This year the Award for most Improved Divers didn’t go to new members, instead, in recognition of their effort in achieving Advanced Instructor, the award went jointly to Mark and Teresa!

Lectures

None this week due to a lack of a room!

For Sale

Rob is putting his dive kit up for sale  - see below for details:

KIT FOR SALE

 Drysuit - Otter Dryskin 

Good condition, never had a leak. Tough blue and black membrane suit that should last forever with TLC. Newish neck seal and wrist in decent nick. Heavy Duty zip in good condition. Auto Dump (Apeks). New boots (size 10) fitted, done about 10 dives only. Comes with usual extras – bag, hose, wax, hood and Otter undersuit with booties. Will fit someone 6 foot plus and about 42-46 chest. Will chuck in a pair of nice and warm Beaver 5mm ‘titanium’ gloves £150 or near offer.

 Regs – Apeks XTX40s + Uwatec Depth Timer + Suunto Single Pressure Gauge

Cracking regs in great condition. Two XTX40s both black on DS4 first stage (DIN fitting). Short and 1.5m hose set up. Again 10 dives only L. Uwatec Depth Timer – reliable piece of kit that has done the same amount of dives. Good for a beginner (who doesn’t have cash for a computer) or as a back up for more advanced diving. Suunto SPG, usual Suunto quality and reliability and a short hose to be clipped on BCD = no dragging over rocks, through slit etc. £275 ono.

 Fins

Mares Quattros. Great fins (ask Anne!) in black. Very few scratches. Give good power and control. Size L so will fit drysuited diver in around size 10 boots. £40

 BCD

Buddy Commando, size L. The ‘bulletproof’ BCD. Old style luminous for those who value safety over fashion! Never had any problems with it, plenty of lift. Will chuck in a goodie bag and small back up torch (I mean small, don’t get too excited!) and shears. £80 ono

If you’re interested drop me an e-mail at smithrj3@cf.ac.uk

 News reports

I would really appreciate any contributions for the email – if you have any reports for me please ensure they are sent to me by Monday on anne.hudson@sourcesoftware.co.uk

 Other News

You may have seen some adverts for a new series starting soon on BBC – if you want a sneak preview go to:

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1078507/Pictured-The-incredible-secret-world-the-sea.html

 Other dates for the diary

Cave Diving lecture

 Just a reminder regarding the talk by Martin Farr on Tuesday 18^th November. If you want to go along, contact Mark – tickets £5 in advance or £7.50 on the door

 Our Christmas “do” 29^th November

Teresa is now looking for balance of money from anyone still owing – cost is £26 (or £23 for vegetarian option – although no one has asked for this!) Please can you bring any balances to club on Wednesday

DOC conference 6^th December

Not too late to come along – check the BSAC website if you are interested!

 
Website

All of 2009 tides now on the website!!!! As well as updates on recent dive reports Mark has now added some useful weather links for both Cardiff and some of our more visited haunts – if you’ll looking for weather try http://www.cardiffbsac.org/weather.php and for tides go to http://www.cardiffbsac.org/tides/ - please remember to use the website – the more hits we receive the better a profile we get – so feel free to browse as often as you like!

 BSAC emails – if you want to subscribe to the BSAC email bulletins – which include useful stuff as well as special offers – go to  www.bsac.org/page/93/bsac-talk.htm and sign up!!

Happy Diving 

 

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