Note that unless stated, all lectures are in the meeting room at York Hall pool.

Pool sessions – IMPORTANT

If you intend to train on a Monday evening, you must contact the training officer (currently Sylive) by email or phone by the Saturday beforehand. You can make this booking the week before at the club. If you do not book into training you will be the last to be allocated kit by an instructor. Please turn up early (around 8:15) and get set up so you can get in the water promptly. Remember to pay £3.00 for air. Please don’t put empty cylinders back in the store. If there is less than 70 bar at the end of your session, please place the cylinder near the pool exit. Volunteers are always required to carry kit/cylinders outside at the end of pool sessions. Anybody willing to take a few cylinders to fill now and again will be warmly thanked, pointed in the direction of a local dive shop and reimbursed for the cost of the air fills (ensure you get a receipt for the fills) and get free air for later training.

Please don’t put kit back if it is not working correctly. It is dangerous. Bring it to the attention of the Pool Marshall.

Open Water Training Days

Open Water training days are listed on the dive schedule. Contact the training officer (Sylvie) or Georgia for information about general open water training and contact the dive organiser about specific dives. Open water training costs £10.00 per day.

Please book as soon as possible so that the appropriate number of instructors can be booked. . Make sure if you hire club kit it is working correctly (best to borrow the kit you used in the pool). We are unlikely to be able to put things right on the day. Please set up kit before the trip to test it out and also set up your weight belt beforehand. This saves YOUR training time. You will have noted we have few weights/weight belts in the Club. These are relatively inexpensive to buy, as dive kit goes, and will save you huge inconvenience in constantly changing things around. Ask around among club members for advice on purchasing your own. If you do not have other items of kit this is your chance to ask other members to lend you bits of kit. Most will oblige, but do ensure they get it back. Lifts to the training site are your responsibility, but there are usually people offering lifts and willing to share petrol.

Equipment and Organisation

If you are going on a training day, please be at the pool on the Monday prior to the training day:

All kit to be booked out via pool marshal, or, failing that, a committee member. Please don’t try to do this after 9.30pm, so get out of the pool a bit earlier. Kit should be collected on the Monday prior to the training day.

Please take empty cylinders if possible and return them full (see below for charges). Liaise with the other divers and the trip coordinator to arrange your travel and accommodation. Travel is by private car, so if you have a car, offer the other divers a lift (they can share the travel costs). If you do not have a car, make sure you find someone who does!

With the exception of cylinders, the equipment is hired out at £4 per item per day.

Cylinder hire is per cylinder, per weekend as per the table below:

Previous Training

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