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 Georgia and Richard) 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

Currently scheduled training days

• 8th/9th May 2010 -- Swanage
• 26th/27th June 2010 -- Chepstow

Please inform the training officer as soon as possible if you wish to attend. See Below:

>To sign up for a training session, please contact the training officer ASAP. You will need to give a cheque for the appropriate amount (usually around £20 per day) dated for the date of the trip. If you turn up your cheque will be returned to you, otherwise it will not. Please book as soon as possible so that the appropriate number of instructors can be booked. See the Welcome pack for a list of kit required for the trip. Make sure if you hire club kit it is working correctly (best to borrow the kit you used in the pool) and also make sure the cylinder is in test (your responsibility). 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. See Rob W, 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. Ask Rita early.