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Nominations for 2010 Committee positions
The list is now up for nominations for the 2010 Kingston & Elmbridge SAC committee.
Positions that will be voted for at the AGM on the 26th November are:
Chairman
Diving Officer
Treasurer
Secretary
Training Officer
Membership Secretary
Boats Officer
Compressor Officer
Equipment Officer
Bar Manager
Social Secretary
Buildings Officer
Pool Manager New Malden
If you would like to put yourself forward for a position, you will need to be [...]
Well, that’s ST4 out of the way
Thanks to Rob Lea for taking on what is the mother of all Sports Diver lectures – ST4.
It’s clear that BSAC have crammed far to much in this module to be given in one sitting. Indeed, it took two long consecutive evenings to get through this. When working out future theory lesson schedules I recommend [...]
Members’ finds for 2009
You couldn’t have had a more varied selection of entries for the club’s “Best Find” and “Best Presented Find”; Four treasures from the Jurassic, the 1940’s and the present day…
Alan Dunster’s beautifully restored ships bell won “Best Find” by a large majority.
Sarah Hamlyn’s modest Sea Urchin shell sneaked ahead on the voting for “Best Presented [...]
Safety and Rescue Skills
To teach divers how to adminster first aid, improve rescue techniques and manage rescues.
Although a great deal of safety and rescue is part of BSAC diver training, there is no substitute for furthering training and reinforcing these valuable skills.
BSAC safety and rescue courses have been regularly updated and the current suite of courses are:
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New to the website – diving forums overview
You can now take an overview of the latest discussions on the BSAC, Yorkshire Divers and South West Mafia forums right on our website – Click on “On the forums…” in the right-hand “Information” panel for the overview (Be warned, this is all completely unmoderated). You can click any subject to join in with the [...]
New to the website – Dive News!
The new page aggregates up-to-the-minute news from BSAC, Dive Magazine and Diver Magazine – so you now only have one page to visit to catch up on all the breaking news relevant to UK diving. All the news articles are linked back to their source so that you can easily follow up on articles that [...]
Thanks to RIB workday attendees
Thanks to Mike Ford and Dave Tresidder who gave up their Sunday morning to help out with the RIB workday. Unfortunately, as there was only three of us we didn’t get as much work done as we would have liked.
There is still a lot to do so I will be organising another workday in the [...]
Committee Meeting
The next committee meeting is planned for Thursday 12th November 2009.
Should you wish to raise anything with the committee, please let me know.
This will be the last meeting of the 2009 committee before the election of the new committee at the AGM on Thursday 26th November.
Thank you
Jo Tresidder
Branch Secretary.
Indonesia – North Sulawesi
It’s Sunday 27th September 2009 and six of Kingston & Elmbridge’s finest are off on an exotic holiday to the Far East to dive and enjoy new cultures, cuisine and climate. I said exotic… The expedition is made up of Ros Hepple, Bret Champion, Sandra Argent, Gill Wilson, Kevan Tulip and myself.
The check in at [...]