Y WaterSpout 2012 Dive Program The Magazine of Bournemouth & Poole Dive Club Established 1954 and celebrating 58 years of Adventurous Safe Diving Waterspout Spring 2012 Page 2 of 23 Index WaterSpout ................................................................................................................................ 1 Spring 2012 ............................................................................................................................... 1 2012 Dive Program ................................................................................................................... 1 Chairman’s Blog ....................................................................................................................... 2 Expeditions Officer .................................................................................................................... 3 Changes at Dorset Diving Services .......................................................................................... 3 Prodive Cairns .......................................................................................................................... 5 Club Groupspaces guide .......................................................................................................... 6 Emergency Contacts update ................................................................................................. 6 A Grown up’s View of the Great Barrier Reef ........................................................................... 7 Dive Program 2012 ................................................................................................................... 9 Diving Officers Report ............................................................................................................. 14 The clubs own wreck 1994 ..................................................................................................... 15 A history of The Lady Myra ..................................................................................................... 15 My First Sea Dive ................................................................................................................... 16 Navigation by John Mears ...................................................................................................... 18 RNLI Wave Pool Trip .............................................................................................................. 21 Cover Photo –.Saeed Rashid – RNLI Pool Session 2011 Chairman’s Blog Hi everyone The 2012 of edition of Waterspout is a bumper edition which shows just how much diving the club is doing at home and abroad. This edition contains a great collection of articles about newly sunken wrecks in Dorset and diving abroad, from The Great Barrier reef to Middle Pool Patch. The club continues to go from strength to strength both in terms of membership and equipment. Last year saw an unprecedented influx of new members from the highly experienced to the newly qualified and as chairman I am pleased to say we have been able to accommodate them all. Waterspout Spring 2012 Page 3 of 23 The adventurous divers were well serviced by a full program of diving on Sundays whilst those seeking a slower and more developmental pace were able to take advantage of the “back by lunchtime” Saturday dives The newly refurbished boat gave us faultless service and the addition of a 3D echo sounder sponsored to us by Humminbird has already revealed new dive sites with a couple of interesting marks still to be explored. This edition of Waterspout has been produced a few months earlier than normal this year so it can be issued with the annual renewals in April in order to show the current membership what’s on offer and to encourage new members to take advantage of an early start in the season. In line with our ethos of weekly diving from Easter to Halloween the club is all geared up to go, soget the enclosed membership forms completed and get ready for a full season of diving Once again I hope you enjoy your diving in 2012 and look forward to seeing you on the water. Regards Adrian King (Chairman) The Bournemouth and Poole Diving club owns its own Ocean 7 metre diesel inboard RIB which is kept in Poole Harbours best marina at Parkstone Bay. Its fuelled up and ready to go each week as per the program in the middle pages of this magazine. Expeditions Officer Changes at Dorset Diving Services Or Bournemouth and Poole Members slowly taking over the world! Dorset Diving Services (DDS) has been established for over twenty years and is well known to nearly all the active divers in the local area. I found out the other day that Dave Kingsbeer met Jacques Cousteau once at a dive conference in the US, it is fair to say he has been around a bit and also a bit round! There has been a recent change to the DDS Partnership and Ellis Watson has joined as a full partner. This has been required in part to give an injection of cash but in the main to replace Waterspout Spring 2012 Page 4 of 23 Chris, their long term instructor. Further Lloyd Watson, a member of this club has agreed to a non executive post to assist with steering the company. DDS sees it as strategically important to their business to support local dive clubs. Clearly without diver’s the business would not survive, equally without the local dive business those who go diving would find it trickier to get air / nitrox / trimix, servicing and the odd shiny item. Loyalty is a two way street and if members of BSAC 006 are to be loyal to a local dive business then there must be something in it for the individual and the club. So here is the offer, DDS will offer all BSAC club members (names on a membership list for the current year) the following: • 10% Discount on all equipment (The following is offered as exclusive to BSAC 006) • 15% Discount on all PADI Training Courses • 20% Discount on all DSAT Technical Courses • Fast Track Servicing at normal price – this is a new service for which DDS charge a premium. • Coffee and a friendly chat? • Access to dedicated sessions at a group price exclusive to club members: o First Aid Refresher (Min 6 at 50% discount + certification fee if certification required) o Pool Sessions – no instructor (Min 4 at £15 for two hours) o Pool Sessions – with an instructor (Min 4 at £25 for two hours) o Skill Workshops (Min 4 at £30 for two hours) SMB deployment Buoyancy Rescue Refresher Twin Set – Shut Down Drills & Stage Handling o Classroom Sessions Classroom Hire at £10 / person for any dedicated BSAC Training between 18:00 and 22:00 Nitrox & Trimix planning workshops - £10 per person Decompression Diving workshops - £10 per person o Human Factors in Diving – A workshop led by an Aviation Human Factors expert - £20 per person Taking advantage is easy, simply call DDS on 01202 580065 or Mobile (0)7738494702 and ask for Ellis Watson who will organise the session. Classroom stuff can be anytime but Pool sessions are at the Dolphin Centre Poole between 20:00 and 22:00 Friday evenings. Other sessions at other locations can be organised if demand is sufficient on any one occasion. All DDS training is now delivered through a Dive Training Company owned by DDS. If you hear off or see Select Diving Limited this is wholly owned by DDS and has its own web site and is a separate company. You will not be surprised to know the directors of Select Diving Limited or (SDL) are Ellis Watson and Paul Kingsbeer. All new divers going through DDS or SDL local to the area will be briefed on BSAC 006 during their training and asked to contact the club to discuss joining. Waterspout Spring 2012 Page 5 of 23 In return all we ask is support as follows: • Need air / nitrox / helium – use DDS (I know most of you do already) • Need something shiny – call DDS to see if they can supply at a competitive price • Want to further your training – call DDS first to discuss • Think Safety and use the pool to try kit, refresh skill or improve on how you dive. • Actually get your kit properly serviced – it’s done for a reason. • Word of Mouth is very helpful, encourage other divers to try DDs or SDL. • Join DDS on Facebook • Sign up with Ellis for the newsletter – so we can tell you about trips being organised – currently in the pipeline are a Blue O2 Liveaboard and an expedition to Iceland. • DDS organise Thursday evening dives – join in if you can Safe diving for 2012. Lloyd Watson Prodive Cairns Last summer we visited Cairns in Queensland, Australia and went and did a live aboard dive with a company named Prodive. We were on the boat for three days and dived about four times a day including night dives. The accommodation was very good on the boat and so was the food. We also had the opportunity to rent an underwater camera which we used on one of the dives and got the photos on a digital memory stick. There was lots of interesting wild life including reef sharks, giant clams, rays and turtles although no wrecks. The sharks tended to be more active at night and circled the boat and us while we dived. Someone even landed on one while jumping in. The coral was amazing and arranged in things called bommies which were large stacks which sometimes cleared the surface of the water. To get to the reef we had to motor off shore for six hours so we were way off shore and couldn’t see the land by the time we got out far enough to dive. It was well set up out there with already set up shot lines and other features on the boat like flood lights for night diving. Simon King Waterspout Spring 2012 Page 6 of 23