Just a quick note to say that next Thursday, the 16th Dec, we shall be
meeting at the Royal Oak in Bitteswell for a drink, a few nibbles and a chin
wag after the normal session at Lutterworth pool, say from 10pm onwards.

May I take the opportunity of wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and all the
very best for the New Year.

Hope we see you next Thursday.

Cheers
Geoff

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.

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

Executive meeting 23rd Sept

An Executive meeting will be held on this coming Thursday 23rd Sept 8pm at
the leisure centre.

Splash Camp 2010

Hi Everyone

We appear to have cruised through yet another Splash Camp with ease –
however as we all know these things don't just happen so a big thank you to
Simon for making sure we all turned up and thank you to everyone for turning
up and making sure it all happened.  Everyones efforts from teaching to
fetching and returning kit are all greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Marg

Photos can be seen in the gallery section.

Weymouth/ Portland dive weekend 24, 25 26 September 2010

Good morning one and all.


Given that we are getting close to the date when we have to crystallise numbers, I am seeking confirmation of those who would like to go.

At present I have firm commitment from Tim Beaver, Sam Watts, Mark Hartburn and Jack Walker.

Please therefore could I ask for anyone else who is interested to confirm such interest and for the four above to confirm that they remain interested.
Thanks

Geoff

This is to let you know that subject to interest, we have added an additional dive weekend to the calendar.

We had a cracking weekend in Weymouth earlier in the year and found the facilities in Portland harbour to be excellent.

Portland harbour offers some interesting wreck and scenic diving opportunities in waters of up to 20m that due to the shelter offered by the harbour, should be suitable for diving almost irrespective of the weather.

We have a number of newly qualified ocean divers and this weekend is offered as an ideal opportunity for them to extend their diving experience in sheltered open water.

Enquiries have been made as to the availability of nearby scout hut in Chickerell where we stayed in last time.

If you are interested in going, please will you let me know as soon as you can as I will need to firm up on the accommodation. It would be helpful if you let me know either way so that I know you received information regarding the weekend.

I would ask Andy Dunsworth to mention it to Wayne Potter, given you live close together.

I don’t have email addresses for some of the recently qualified ocean divers and so would ask Matt and Jim in particular to forward this email to anyone they see that I have missed. The same applies to the rest of you, if I have missed anyone, please could you let them know/ copy this email to them.

Thanks
Geoff