Newsletter
Issue 4 - 15 April 2007

Club News
On Tuesday 3rd April 2007 the club held its AGM at the British Legion, the new committee as voted at the AGM are:
Chairman - Gary Howard
Secretary - Angela Gregory
Treasurer - Claire Fennell
Membership Secretary - Milly Howard
Equipment Officer - Jon Pearce
Boat Officer - Pete Mowatt
Social Secretary - Deborah Davis
Training Officer - Len Sumner
Diving Officer - Simon Fennell

Last weekend Pete Mowatt and a few others from the club took Dunbalin out her first spin of the year!! Your all be pleased to hear that all went well and there were no problems. (apart from the usual bad vis)

Forthcoming Meetings / Diary Events
17 April 2007 - Little Tuesday / The Squirrel, Booker  - Committee Meeting & Instructor Meeting
03 April 2007 – AGM, British Legion 20.30
08 April 2007 – Training Dive, Portland - Boat: Dunbalin, Organiser: Simon Fennell
14 April 2007 – Ocean Diver Dive, West Bay - Boat: West Bay Diving, Organiser: Pete Mowatt
(The Clubs Full Dive/Event Program is available on the club website)

Messages from the committee
Len Sumner - (Training Officer)
New Training Team for 2007
Some changes to the training team have happened this year, the team now consists of the following very friendly and helpful people
Jane Mowatt - Theory co-ordinator
Amanda Radley - Open Water co-ordinator
Simon Cook - Pool co-ordinator
Len Sumner - Training Officer
If you have any training related questions, please feel free to ask and we'll do our best to help.

New Course
New Ocean Diver course has just started with 5 students, four of whom are completely new to diving and one (Eunice) has crossed over from the dark side!
Please join me in welcoming them to the club, they are:

• Eunice Kendall who lots of us met at the Christmas party
• Diane Lichfield
• Ian Price
• John Young
• Tamara Pearce

So if you spot some new faces down at the pool please introduce yourself and make them feel at home.
Training still remains one of the main sources of income for the club, so if you know anybody who is interested in either a try dive or the full blown course, please give them my contact details (Len.Sumner@maxima.co.uk).

If you think you can put up a HWSAC training poster at work, again, please let me know and I'll send you the latest one.

If you have recently gone through the Ocean Diver course, but need to com-plete some missed theory lessons (especially ST2), please let Jane know which lessons you have missed and she will send you the dates for the missed lectures on the new course.

Up coming events
Instructor meeting - to be arranged in the next couple of weeks, probably at the Squirrel on a Tuesday night. If you are an instructor, assistant, want to assist in the future, please come along. We want to make the training as save as possible for the coming season and need everybody to help.
April 8th, training at Portland. At the moment we are struggling to get a NCI to manage the event (it being Easter and all that), so if you can help, please let Amanda know
Once the current Life Saver course is out of the way (end of April) we will organise a couple of sessions at the pool to go through
How to run a try dive
What is involved in assisting at the pool
If you want to help, please come along to these session.
May 9th, evening training sessions being run every other week at Wraysbury

Congratulations & Thanks
- Paul Coxon has just passed his Theory Instructor Exam (TIE) and is about to do the Open Water Instructor Course (OWIC).
- Jane Mowatt, Amanda Radley and Rob Taylor are about to do the Instructor Foundation Course (IFC) in London - enjoy.
Thanks to Paul, Jane, Amanda and Rob for going down the instructor training path and if any of you are interested in doing the same, please have a chat to me, Simon Fennell or Gary Howard
That's all for now, need to stop before you all get bored.

Diveoku
Please see the pdf.

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