If you are interested, contact Dave Tresidder.

Did you know that Sea King is now stored in Newhaven making the diving even easier and the days even shorter? A full days’ diving for £15 or £20 within an hours’ drive of the club house, so home in time for dinner!

If you thought it was about time to get in the water and have just realised that there are few hard boat dives being run at the moment, then maybe it’s time to come along.

Spaces avaiable this coming Bank Holiday weekend. Email us, call us or see us at the club. This coming weekend is being organised by Dave Tresidder (Sat) and Gren Hamlyn (Sun).

In the meantime I have included a link to the schedule and current bookings.

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Schedule

The costs are £260 per person,which includes 3 days hardboat diving (6 dives), four nights caravan accomodation, some basic food and packed lunches, BBQ and drinks weather permitting.

There are 42 from the club going already and we have 2 dive boats doing the same itinerary’s

All prices are per person per day

There are also 2 Self-catering apartments that sleep 4/5 persons at 710 Euros per apartment per week. These may not be available for long.

Flights will be in the region of £180 but I cannot be certain until I have some idea of numbers and can talk to British Airways

There will also be a cost for a coach to and from the airport but that will depend on numbers and hence the size of coach.

There will probably be a reduction for children but I have not had that confirmed yet.

Please can you let Brian know as soon as possible if you are interested as he needs to start giving the hotel and dive centres some numbers. He will be away for a week from the 31st january and will need to have an idea of numbers soon after I return.

MAY BANK HOLIDAY (1st, 2nd, 3rd MAY 2010)

This year the club will be running its annual club trip to Portland over the early May Bank Holiday on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd May 2010.

The trip will be split into two with 12 divers diving off the hard boat Skin Deeper and staying at Margaret’s house in Weymouth and 14 divers diving off the RIBs and staying at the Bunker in Portland .

The trip is open to Ocean Divers and above. Whilst there may be an opportunity to get some skills signed off primarily this trip is for everyone to go diving and have fun. If you do have specific skills that need to be signed off then please talk to Gren beforehand to see if this will be possible.

The cost of the trip will be £240 if you are diving off Skin Deeper and staying at Margaret’s house and it will be £145 if you are diving off the RIBs and staying at the Bunker.

These costs include, 3 days diving (2 dives per day), 3 nights accommodation on a B&B basis, a BBQ (weather permitting on the Saturday night), an evening meal with wine on the Sunday night, and a packed lunch (no packed lunch for those on the RIBs).

A list will be going up on the board this Thursday (weather permitting) and all places will be on a first come first served basis. Please note the usual club booking rules apply: If you put your name down you are responsible for the full cost unless you can find a replacement.

Regards

Ian

• We anticipate two ribs for start of season (subject to selling of Kingston Diver and purchase of new RIB).
• The diving is mainly based out of Newhaven but other venues will be considered
• We have standardised the cost to £20 or £25 per day based on 6 divers on board,  depending on fuel costs subject to a minimum of 5 per boat (costs increase by £5 per diver). 
• In case of oversubscription, people who have contributed to boat maintenance days will be given first refusal (within reason, qualification)
• Trainees, crossovers or newly qualified Ocean divers are to be encouraged to get involved.
• Dive trip rules apply with regard to payment – sign up + pay up.
• RIBs can only be hired for diving related activities
• Trips are dependent on the availability of qualified persons (Dive Manager, Diver Cox, someone to tow ).
• A list will be published on the Club notice board in due course.
• If you have any questions contact Chris Hunka, Ian Emery or Dave Tresidder. 

Let’s go diving!

This is a terrific  bank holiday trip, it’s late in May so the weather will be nice and warm, you might even see a basking shark too – I did on my first Plymouth trip.  The diving is great and may  include the old favorites James Egan-Layne and or the Scylla and much more.  It’s a super social event too .

We have two boats so the numbers are limited to 24 divers but it is open to all grades, the list is on the board, so come on down the club and get your name down early to avoid disappointment.

Costs (to be confirmed) will Accommodation (including breakfast)  is about £75 per person and the diving about £112

If you have any questions, contact Chris Hunka

Jon Rapley has this year entrusted me to maintain his long standing relationship with Lyme Regis!.  I have put up a dive notice at the club.  We will once again be chartering the Blue Turtle skippered by Doug Lanfear.  I’ve been on this trip twice before and it’s always been a great weekend.  The dive will be open to sports divers and above and is limited to just 10 divers.  Cost will be £90 (for each of the 10 divers) plus accommodation.

Regards

Chris Hunka