Membership renewals for 2010

Renewals are due on 1st April for most members and I have received all the paperwork from BSAC HQ and can begin to process these from this Thursday.

Please look at the membership fee chart to find your membership fees (download below):

> Download membership fee chart

Standard members should look at 1. Standard BSAC Membership, to match [...]

2010 Dive Trips

To all Kingston & Elmbridge members.

Over recent years it has become apparent that there have been a number of dive trips organised over the same weekends which has resulted in it being difficult to fill all of the trips. To try and counter this I have put a year planner up on the board. If [...]

DiverSE ‘10

As previously mentioned This year’s DiverSE event will be back at the excellent venue of University of Surrey, Guildford on Sunday 14th March 2010.

Again there is a diverse range of top flight speakers, with something for everyone.

Cave diver Rick Stanton will be recounting some of his amazing tales. Top underwater photography [...]

Surviving the Sea Survival Course

When Chris Knight asked me weather I would like to do the Sea Survival course my first thought was: why on earth would I want to do that? I’ve been on loads of boats, I have been diving in all types of sea conditions for years and I am a qualified diver Cox. Surely, I [...]

Photo Competition winners for 2009

The votes have been counted, and the photos that members thought were the best category winners are…

Best Underwater Wildlife Photo by Shirley Deluce

A seal grabbing a divers fin in the Farnes – a classic diving memory.

Best Social Photo by John Parrish

A great snap of Trish and sarah taken on RIB diving trip.

Best UK Photo by [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Diver upgrades – congratulations

Congratulations to Kevan Tulip and Dean Mitchell who have been awarded the grade of Dive Leader

Entries for this year’s photo competition

All the entries for this year’s photo competition are in.

We can vote for our favourite at the club-house next week, but you can see all the entries here

There are some great photos of squidgy stuff including whale sharks, seals, octopus, lobsters, eels, more sharks, Napoleon wrass and a dolphin! There are some good social pics [...]

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