March 28th - 29th 2009 - UK Orientation Swanage

This weekend 7 mad divers headed off to Swanage for a UK orientation with Robin and John.
Eric, Guy, Julian, Vic, Chris, Chris and Mike went searching for life under Swanage pier on the Saturday and then joined the crew of Sidewindr for their first UK boat dives on the Sunday. Despite the vis being somewhat poor in places, we had 9 happy divers, all converts to UK sea diving! Next trips Wittering and lundy

March 29th 2009

Aquanaut has 2 new Assistant Instructors! Huge congratulations to Craig and Dave who completed their AI at Wraysbury today. They were so good they identified all of the 'problems' before we got to have fun with them!!

March 21st / 22nd 2009

We were ready for Vobster, but were they ready for us??





Congratulations to Vic, Guy and Chris who all completed their deep and wreck specialties with Robin.
Paul and jack mastered theri dry suit spec and then went on to complete their Advanced Open Water with Taff. Ady and Sarah also completed their AOW with Gary

Aquanaut club divers also investigated some of the attractions of Vobster - Steve, Eric, Chris G, jeremy and others all checked out kit and practiced their skills.

Meanwhile..... back in the pool, Lesley and Chantelle refreshed their skills by doing scuba reviews with Nick and Angelica, and Steve took Stuart, Jason, Bailey and Toby for Discover Scuba Sessions.

March 20th 2009

Don't you just love Instructor skill circuits?? Great fun watching BCD's floating away from the bottom, no mask swims travelling in circles and CESA's breaking the olympic freestyle record. But seriously, a great session and well done Dave, Craig and Jake.

Meanwhile Taff too Jack ofr his dry suit orientation in prep for his dry suit and aow course at the weekend

March 16th 2009

Lynne took Chris, Sarah, Ady and Jamil for their Emergency Oxygen Provider. A great course with some enthusiastic particpants (or at least volunteers to be 'dead' bodies!)

March 14th / 15th 2009

Mega busy weekend.....

Amy, Ben, Bernard, Jason and Matt all braved the cold of Wraysbury and completed their open water dives with Mel and Phil
Bernard, Ben, Sarah and Ady all completed their dry suit specialties.

Meanwhile in the pool, Steve took Andrew, Emma, John and Laura for their referral sessions

Friday 13th March 2009.....

Amy and Jamil completed their dry suit orientations with Mel, Taff took Simon for a scuba review and Lynne and Gary did DM / AI skill circuits with Craig, Dave and Jake

March 7th / 8th 2008

Congratulations to Kumar, Rohan, Matt and Chris who completed their referrals with Gary and Mel

Meanwhile 12 very brave (or mad??) divers headed to Wraysbury for some pleasure diving. Whilst it was a bit on the chilly side (5 degrees so warming up) it was great to just wash all the cobwebs off the dive kit and check out new purchases before the dive season really kicks off.

March 5th 2009

Congratulations to jack and Jason who became Enriched Air Divers, and also Stave, Sarah and Ady who completed their EFR's

Nemo 33 - Feb 09

Where do I start!

31 intrepid divers headed on Eurostar to the Belgian capital, armed with their diving gear! Hidden on the outskirts of Brussels is Europe's deepest pool (34.7m to be precise!)

All 31 made it in one piece to the pool and had superb fun venturing down to the deep, investigating the caves and starting at the divers in the bar outside.

If that wasn't enough 29 divers then headed out into Brussels centre for a stunning evening meal and some re-hydration .... and most of them made it back eventually after some rather dodgy tabletop dancing at a local Irish Nightclub (?!?! so I am told!!)

Not surprisingly the Eurostar home was a little more subdued!

February 28th / March 1st 2009

Fiona, Mike and Amy successfully completed their Referrals with Sarah

February 27th 2009

Look out above..... Gary took Guy, Eric, Steve, Rory and Geoff for their SMB deployment session. Great fun, but lots of limp sausages!

Adam, Keith, Ruth, Jake, helen, Paul, Sean and Linda all bubbled

February 21st / 22nd 2009

Nick and John took Ady, Sarah and Clive for their open water dives - chilly!!! Well done guys!

Meanwhile Taff took Jason and Kinga for their referral session.

February 20th 2009

Gus, Nadine and Clive all completed their dry suit orientation with Nick, Time and clair refreshed their skills doing a scuba review with Pedja
Meanwhile Jim, Mike, Kieith, Adam, Lea, Rory, Matthew and Jake all went for a bubble