TSAC NEWS & EVENTS

News and Events in the TSAC club.

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Sharm El Sheikh

Sharm El Sheikh Originally we planned to dive Aqaba but as Easy Jet cancelled the flights we looked further south and chose to return to the steady favourite of Sharm El Sheikh. Six divers in total (five experienced and one relatively new diver). We arrived at the hotel late at night and were pleasantly surprised…

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Capernwray – the Ted Tandy

Capernwray – The Ted Tandy Sadly the training dive for the weekend had to be cancelled but we decided to head up and check of a couple of dives on the Fifty@50 list and also to look over the new attraction, the Ted Tandy, a former barrow pilot boat, named after the hundreds of hours…

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TSAC AGM 2023

TSAC AGM 2023 Agenda Dissolution of the 2022 Committee and election of 2023 Branch Officers – Paul Tweedale Position Nominee Proposed By Seconded By Elected Chairperson Paula Garbett Nick Haigh Debbie Carrier Paula Garbett Diving Officer Steve Bettison Richard Scarsbrook Dave Godson Steve Bettison Treasurer Ben Flanagan Paul Tweedale Lisa Kean Ben Flanagan Secretary Paul…

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Mexico – ‘1 DOWN’

Mexico – ‘1 DOWN’ To celebrate our 50th anniversary we have set ourselves several targets based on the theme of 50. One of the whole club challenges is the ‘50 DOWN’, challenge. Over the year we are aiming to record the location of any dives completed and record 50 different sites/areas. Hopefully we will have…

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Lifesaver training

Lifesaver training One of the great strengths of our club is the training provided for members. A variety of courses are offered by the team of instructors lead by our DO (Steve Bettison) and our TO (Steve Gresty). This years we have planned the Ocean Diver, Sports Diver, Dive Leader and Advanced Diver courses. In…

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TSAC’s 50th Anniversary event list

TSAC’s 50th Anniversary event list Listed below are all the events for the 50th Anniversary year. Please make sure you put them in your diary/on your fridge/in your calendar and try to attend as many as possible. DIVE CHALLENGE – Year long This is a yearlong challenge and starts on January 1st. It is an…

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Annual Christmas dive and meal

Annual Christmas dive and meal The annual call had been sent out for divers and socialisers for the annual club Christmas dive and meal on the 28th December. As usual Steve (our DO) had booked the Cornerhouse pub for lunch only to find out that it had closed it’s doors, so a hasty phone round…

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Loch Long, a day out

Loch Long, a day out A question to start: What do you do when given an occasional day’s holiday to go Christmas shopping? Answer: Grab the opportunity with both hands and go diving, and where better than Loch Long? Loch Long is just North of Helensburgh on the West of Scotland an offers unparalleled diving…

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Annual club dinner dance and awards night

Annual club dinner dance and awards night After several rebooking’s and cancellations, we finally got to the have our annual dance. Sadly, we still had a covid cry off, but the Awards night finally happened. Lisa organised the event and threw herself into the task, finding an excellent venue and organising the decorating and meal.…

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Freedive course

Freedive course – AIDA 2 – Pool Freediver Having watched the freedivers at our pool sessions, read about freediving in dive magazines and watched various Guillaume Nery videos (Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean’s Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier – YouTube) and ‘Defending the Vandenberg’ (Defending the Vandenberg – YouTube), Also, between diving…

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Scapa Flow

Scapa Flow An ex-member of TSAC (Chris Brough) wanted to dive Scapa Flow on his first visit back to the UK since the lockdown, so he got together 5 of TSAC’s current members to join him on MV Clasina for 6 days diving in October 2022. Four of us made the long journey up to…

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Loch Long shore dive weekend

Loch Long shore dive weekend Neil and Paul arrived outside my house cars full of dive kit and snacks. Once the van was loaded we headed up the M6 to Helensburgh to meet up at the Couty Hotel, with the rest of the dive team. A quick unloading of kit and of we went to…