Author: Paul Burton

Boat Handling Course Report

The Course

As the first stage to qualification for skippering the club boats the BSAC Boat Handler course is now being taught at Oxford BSAC. This equips trainees with the skills necessary to safely take charge of a vessel in open water. An additional 20 hours experience is required before then moving onto the Diver Cox’n (diver coxswain) course which then qualifies us to pick up divers and snorkelers. A bit of a palava, but it then means we are insured, which with an adventurous sport is a bit of a must.

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14th August 2011
Snorkelling trip to Lulworth Cove

Sunday 21st August 2011

To replace last months cancelled trip, we are going to try Lulworth Cove again and hope the weather is better this time.

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12th August 2011
*SHARKS!

Oxford BSAC present a talk about Shark Tagging by Dr Ken Collins

Senior Research Fellow at the School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre

ANGLER, DIVER or VOLUNTEER?:
The programme is aimed at sport shark anglers who record, tag and release the sharks that they catch.

How to Sex a Shark
What we hope to achieve
How Tagging Works
Why Tagging?
Weigh slings
What to do if you catch a tagged shark
Followed by questions and answers

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12th August 2011
Royal Navy Presentation

On Thursday 28^th July the Royal Navy came to visit us at Oxford BSAC to give us a talk on what the Navy do.

The evening consisted of a fast action film presentation intermingled with facts and figures given by 4 members of the Royal Navy and Marines. It was very interesting and I think we all learnt a lot about the Navy by the end of the evening.

Oxford BSAC is lucky enough to have a clubhouse which is used for lectures, pre-dive meetings, social nights and equipment storage including our own compressor, but the clubhouse costs us quite a bit to rent each year.

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1st August 2011
Dive Officer Tweeting from Scapa

Ian Banton will be tweeting the fortnight away from Scapa Flow – you can follow him @OxScubaDiveClub, or watch the Tweets in the right-hand column of our homepage.

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24th July 2011
Charity Pirate Day

Divers and snorkelers from the club were more than happy to help out when asked by eighteenth-century re-enactors who were putting on a Charity Pirate Day at the Swan Hotel in Radcote, Oxfordshire.

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23rd July 2011
Congratulations

Basic snorkel diver course

Congratulations to Mike Green, Jenny Milne and Lisa Milne who have all passed their basic snorkel diver course.

9th July 2011
Royal Navy Talk – Open to Non-members

Thursday 28th July, 7.30pm @ Oxford BSAC

The Royal Navy are coming to the clubhouse with their fast moving multi-media presentation, followed by a question and answer session.

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8th July 2011
Pembrokeshire 19th-21st August

Diving from Isis out of Dale.

A quick weekend’s diving from the Western tip of South Wales. Plan is to dive from Dale just next to Haverfordwest. Trips out with 6 divers and 2 crew.

At time of writing, the B&B at Meadow Rue has 7 spaces for that weekend at £25 per night. They need £30 deposit per person for bookings. Otherwise for the hardy there’s camping. Rose, Kerrie and I will be staying in the Mongolian Yurt !

Their contact details are:

email: info@meadowrue.co.uk, telephone: 01437 783706, website: www.meadowrue.co.uk

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7th July 2011
Snorkelling trip to Lulworth Cove

Sunday 24th July 2011

No school the next day!!!!

We plan to use our RIB – Naiad – to drop us off at Stair Hole and snorkel around the rock formations.

If you are interested in joining us please put your name down on the board at the club house.

There will be no limit on numbers.

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5th July 2011