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12/06/17
This weather still doesn't seem to be settling much, but we think there might be a chance to get out on Wednesday evening, and we are hoping the weekend will be more settled than currently forecast. So here are the plans, but as always these are subject to suitable safe conditions so please ensure that you check in that diving is going ahead before you set out from home.
On June 17th there is a chance to see Plastic Ocean, an award winning documentary about the impact of plastic in the marine environment. The showing will take place at the Centenary Centre in Peel at 7.30pm. You can book tickets via the event website. Tickets cost £5 (plus booking fee) and the profits go to the Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch charity.
On Saturday June 24th we are having a BBQ for all club members and their guests. Details are below, hope you can join us.
Outline plans
Wednesday evening: boat dive
Saturday morning; shore dive
Saturday afternoon: shore snorkel
Saturday afternoon: boat dive
Sunday morning; shore dive
Sunday afternoon: 2 boat dives
This is the start of our Small Groups week and we are delighted to welcome divers from 4 different clubs to join us. We have a few spaces on the boat and are intending to offer 2 dives a day throughout the week. If you would like to join us, please ring or text Michelle on 300090 to see what plans are for the following day and to book on.
Hope to see you soon
Michelle and Steve
This weather still doesn't seem to be settling much, but we think there might be a chance to get out on Wednesday evening, and we are hoping the weekend will be more settled than currently forecast. So here are the plans, but as always these are subject to suitable safe conditions so please ensure that you check in that diving is going ahead before you set out from home.
On June 17th there is a chance to see Plastic Ocean, an award winning documentary about the impact of plastic in the marine environment. The showing will take place at the Centenary Centre in Peel at 7.30pm. You can book tickets via the event website. Tickets cost £5 (plus booking fee) and the profits go to the Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch charity.
On Saturday June 24th we are having a BBQ for all club members and their guests. Details are below, hope you can join us.
Outline plans
Wednesday evening: boat dive
Saturday morning; shore dive
Saturday afternoon: shore snorkel
Saturday afternoon: boat dive
Sunday morning; shore dive
Sunday afternoon: 2 boat dives
This is the start of our Small Groups week and we are delighted to welcome divers from 4 different clubs to join us. We have a few spaces on the boat and are intending to offer 2 dives a day throughout the week. If you would like to join us, please ring or text Michelle on 300090 to see what plans are for the following day and to book on.
Hope to see you soon
Michelle and Steve
01/06/17
Hi Everyone
First of all, we need to thank Sally and the team from Isle of Man Underwater Search and Recovery for an excellent evening last Friday. Sally's talk was informative and entertaining, with video of the accident and the recovery, and computer simulations to reconstruct the demise of Bluebird. The fish and chip supper was great, and there was a raffle with some amazing prizes from Pokerstars, Miflex and Discover Diving. Over £400 was raised to help purchase specialist equipment. We hope they organise another one soon and you can come along.
Before we get as far as dive plans, we need to do a plug for Seasearch Isle of Man, who train marine life surveyors and record the underwater ecology around the Island. Organiser, Tony Glen, is looking to recruit more volunteers and is hoping to run the introductory Observer Course on 1st July. However, it's only worth doing the course if enough people commit to going. Seasearch training is an excellent way of improving your marine ID skills. We promise you that you will start to see things that you would previously have swum over, but with a little training you will see so much more. Full details are below. Please contact Tony to book your place.
During the next 10 days we will be running charter trips to Ardglass with TT visitors, but we also have some visiting divers who would like to try and dive around the Isle of Man if possible. Plans are obviously subject to the weather....and the practice/race schedule.
Our snorkellers have done their final pool session, and once we are clear of TT we will be getting them into the sea for their first sea snorkels of the year. Happily the water temperature is currently about 11 degrees, so the move to the sea shouldn't be too traumatic!
Plans for the next few days:
Saturday morning - Shore session
Saturday afternoon - Boat dive
Sunday morning - Shore session
Sunday afternoon - Boat dive
Monday evening - Boat dive
Tuesday evening - Shore dive
Full details below - you'll have to scroll to find them....
If you are a visiting diver and are planning on hiring kit, you should be aware that we will require you to do a shore based 'check out' dive before booking onto any boat dives. Boat dive plans for the next few days are to sites with less tidal constraints to accommodate our visiting divers as much as possible.
Hope to see you soon
Michelle and Steve
Hi Everyone
First of all, we need to thank Sally and the team from Isle of Man Underwater Search and Recovery for an excellent evening last Friday. Sally's talk was informative and entertaining, with video of the accident and the recovery, and computer simulations to reconstruct the demise of Bluebird. The fish and chip supper was great, and there was a raffle with some amazing prizes from Pokerstars, Miflex and Discover Diving. Over £400 was raised to help purchase specialist equipment. We hope they organise another one soon and you can come along.
Before we get as far as dive plans, we need to do a plug for Seasearch Isle of Man, who train marine life surveyors and record the underwater ecology around the Island. Organiser, Tony Glen, is looking to recruit more volunteers and is hoping to run the introductory Observer Course on 1st July. However, it's only worth doing the course if enough people commit to going. Seasearch training is an excellent way of improving your marine ID skills. We promise you that you will start to see things that you would previously have swum over, but with a little training you will see so much more. Full details are below. Please contact Tony to book your place.
During the next 10 days we will be running charter trips to Ardglass with TT visitors, but we also have some visiting divers who would like to try and dive around the Isle of Man if possible. Plans are obviously subject to the weather....and the practice/race schedule.
Our snorkellers have done their final pool session, and once we are clear of TT we will be getting them into the sea for their first sea snorkels of the year. Happily the water temperature is currently about 11 degrees, so the move to the sea shouldn't be too traumatic!
Plans for the next few days:
Saturday morning - Shore session
Saturday afternoon - Boat dive
Sunday morning - Shore session
Sunday afternoon - Boat dive
Monday evening - Boat dive
Tuesday evening - Shore dive
Full details below - you'll have to scroll to find them....
If you are a visiting diver and are planning on hiring kit, you should be aware that we will require you to do a shore based 'check out' dive before booking onto any boat dives. Boat dive plans for the next few days are to sites with less tidal constraints to accommodate our visiting divers as much as possible.
Hope to see you soon
Michelle and Steve
25/5/17
Bank holiday weekends always hold so much promise.....but the weather this weekend isn't looking so clever for diving. Strong winds on Saturday, along with forecast for thunder storms will stop any diving. Sunday isn't much better as the wind swings round overnight to the SW and then the W, and won't drop off until the evening. So we will try to get out then. Monday is looking much better so we have some boat and shore dives planned. Due to an accident on the dive boat, Michelle is out of action this weekend, so places with instructors are limited. Please book on quickly to avoid disappointment and bear with us. We know you are keen to get out and we will try to get as much diving as possible.
We are all looking forward to hearing Sally's talk on Friday night about the recovery of Bluebird, Donald Campbell's world water speed boat from Coniston Water. This talk will be of interest to divers and non divers alike, and we are raising funds for the Underwater Search team. Please come along and support the event. Tickets cost £12.50 and include a fish and chip supper. More details on the poster below. If you can share details of this event in your workplace, please do.
Plans for the next few days:
Sunday morning - Rescue Scenarios
Sunday early evening - Boat dive
Monday morning - Boat dive
Monday afternoon - shore dive
Monday afternoon - Boat dive
Tuesday evening - shore dive
Full details including the timings are further down the email.
Snorkellers: Full kit required for the last pool sessions this Sunday (wetsuit, boots, fins, hood, gloves, snorkel vest & weight belt). If you are hiring a suit from us, please come and try on suits before the pool session on Sunday. This will take around 30-45 minutes, so please allow enough time (we close the dive centre at 2.30 on a Sunday when we leave to go to the pool).
Full details below - you'll have to scroll to find them....
Hope to see you soon
Michelle and Steve
Bank holiday weekends always hold so much promise.....but the weather this weekend isn't looking so clever for diving. Strong winds on Saturday, along with forecast for thunder storms will stop any diving. Sunday isn't much better as the wind swings round overnight to the SW and then the W, and won't drop off until the evening. So we will try to get out then. Monday is looking much better so we have some boat and shore dives planned. Due to an accident on the dive boat, Michelle is out of action this weekend, so places with instructors are limited. Please book on quickly to avoid disappointment and bear with us. We know you are keen to get out and we will try to get as much diving as possible.
We are all looking forward to hearing Sally's talk on Friday night about the recovery of Bluebird, Donald Campbell's world water speed boat from Coniston Water. This talk will be of interest to divers and non divers alike, and we are raising funds for the Underwater Search team. Please come along and support the event. Tickets cost £12.50 and include a fish and chip supper. More details on the poster below. If you can share details of this event in your workplace, please do.
Plans for the next few days:
Sunday morning - Rescue Scenarios
Sunday early evening - Boat dive
Monday morning - Boat dive
Monday afternoon - shore dive
Monday afternoon - Boat dive
Tuesday evening - shore dive
Full details including the timings are further down the email.
Snorkellers: Full kit required for the last pool sessions this Sunday (wetsuit, boots, fins, hood, gloves, snorkel vest & weight belt). If you are hiring a suit from us, please come and try on suits before the pool session on Sunday. This will take around 30-45 minutes, so please allow enough time (we close the dive centre at 2.30 on a Sunday when we leave to go to the pool).
Full details below - you'll have to scroll to find them....
Hope to see you soon
Michelle and Steve
19/4/17
Easter wasn't as warm and sunny as we had hoped, but a few dives were done. Congrats to Dan, Josh, Charlotte and Isabel for passing their BSAC Ocean Diver training, now the real fun can start! Well done too to Mick for showing some real development of his diver rescue skills. Thanks to all the team that helped out in the small weather window. Well done also to Colin, Mick, Dave, Steve and Kathryn for completing their Full Face Mask theory.
We are taking advantage of the calm conditions to run an evening dive out on Thursday 20th. Sorry for the short notice, but that's how these things go! On Saturday we have 2 boat dives scheduled and 2 training sessions. On Sunday when conditions are due to be a little windier, we are just doing Full Face Mask Training with the Isle of Man Underwater Search and Recovery Team volunteers.
Our next pool session will be Sunday 30th April. For the divers currently in training, this is a chance to see what you have remembered over the break, and to finally master the skills before your sea sessions start. For snorkellers, we will start playing around with wetsuits, boots, hoods and gloves in the build up to the open water sessions starting after TT week.
Upcoming training courses:
25th April BSAC Advanced Diver AP2
29th April Diver Rescue Scenarios ALL WELCOME
4th May BSAC Dive Leader Theory 1, 8 & 9
11th May BSAC Dive Leader Theory 10,11,12
Full details below.
Hope to see you soon
Easter wasn't as warm and sunny as we had hoped, but a few dives were done. Congrats to Dan, Josh, Charlotte and Isabel for passing their BSAC Ocean Diver training, now the real fun can start! Well done too to Mick for showing some real development of his diver rescue skills. Thanks to all the team that helped out in the small weather window. Well done also to Colin, Mick, Dave, Steve and Kathryn for completing their Full Face Mask theory.
We are taking advantage of the calm conditions to run an evening dive out on Thursday 20th. Sorry for the short notice, but that's how these things go! On Saturday we have 2 boat dives scheduled and 2 training sessions. On Sunday when conditions are due to be a little windier, we are just doing Full Face Mask Training with the Isle of Man Underwater Search and Recovery Team volunteers.
Our next pool session will be Sunday 30th April. For the divers currently in training, this is a chance to see what you have remembered over the break, and to finally master the skills before your sea sessions start. For snorkellers, we will start playing around with wetsuits, boots, hoods and gloves in the build up to the open water sessions starting after TT week.
Upcoming training courses:
25th April BSAC Advanced Diver AP2
29th April Diver Rescue Scenarios ALL WELCOME
4th May BSAC Dive Leader Theory 1, 8 & 9
11th May BSAC Dive Leader Theory 10,11,12
Full details below.
Hope to see you soon
