Friday, October 22, 2010

My First Night Dive

By Alexander Halliwell

Yesterday evening was the first ever time that I went scuba diving at Stoney
Cove at night time, let me tell you that I enjoyed every second of that
dive.
My diving buddy was Marg and I am sure that if you asked her about the dive,
she will agree with me that we had the best diver ever.

We saw numerous pike from small to large, about a dozen if not more than
that. We also saw hundreds of crayfish including some that had decided to
climb up the weeds looking as if they were about to bungee jump. The more
usual fish perch and roach were also around, there were tiny perch as well
as big fat ones. But the real stars of the Dive were the PIKE! Including the
one that swam straight towards us.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

New Site Launched

Our new website has just been launched, hope you like it. If you have any issues or spot any errors please let me know.

Kind Regards

Simon Askham - LSSAU - Snorkel Instructor - info@scubascouts.co.uk

Leicestershire Scouts Sub Aqua Unit - www.ScubaScouts.co.uk

Nights away permits

As many of you will recall we discussed the need for a few more of us to hold nights away permits at the 2009 AGM. Scouting POR states that that at least one person attending a weekend away where there are under 18 year olds present should hold a nights away permit. There are only one or two members of the unit currently holding such a permit which could in the future create a problem whereby we might struggle to have a permit holder available to go on a weekend away.

In order that more unit members can be accredited with holding a nights away permit, we have arranged for Steve Pope from the Leicestershire caving unit (known to Simon Pilsworth) to come along to LSSAU on Thursday 28 October commencing at 8.00pm to do a talk/ workshop with as many of us as we wish regarding nights away permits. Following this he will make submissions to county for permits to be issued.

It would be great if we could have as many as possible attending so maximising the benefit of Steve coming over so giving us maximum flexibility and coverage for those attending future weekends away.

Cheers Geoff