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Education in Scuba 2An essential feature of our Club is the promotion of diver education and diving safety. The Club appoints an Education Officer to coordinate these important aspects. Also, we believe that divers need regular diving with other keen, safe divers, so that those newer to the sport can learn from those with greater experience. |
Courses organised by the club
The courses we organise, over any year, are dependant on the needs of the Club at the time. We like to have as many of our divers as possible qualified to Advanced Open Water and preferably to Rescue Diver level. Thus, Advanced and Rescue courses are the most common. These are organised with a reputable instructor on a group basis, qualifying for group discounts. It's also much more fun to do a course with people you know and dive with regularly.
Other common courses are Nitrox, Equipment and many others.
We participate in projects to support monitoring and conservation of the local marine environment, including marine surveys and fish population counts.
During the winter months, a regular event is a 50 m dry dive in a recompression chamber to aquaint new divers with nitrogen narcosis and recompression physics in a safe environment. The hyperbaric facility at Fremantle Hospital is also on our agenda, where our divers hear from doctors who treat 'bent' divers and practice all aspects of hyperbaric medicine and oxygen therapy.
At the end of the winter we organise an annual Skills Review. This is a pool training session where we run through basic diving safety drills under the watchful eye of an Instructor or Dive Master. This is a unique club activity, is generally well attended and even experienced divers that attend often remark that it was good to brush up on drills they had not used for quite a while! This activity is free to Club Members.
Our monthly club meetings are regularly entertained by speakers on many aspects of the marine environment, technical diving, underwater photography and commercial diving. We have a regular 'Safety Stop' - a very short talk on diving safety - at each meeting.
Our newsletter, the Log Book, contains thoughtful articles on all aspects of diving, from diving safety and boat diving, to marine biology, underwater photography, diving equipment and technical diving. Some of these are collected on our website under useful information for your enjoyment.
Last Update:
Wednesday, 22/12/2009
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