News

03/04/2024 Make your voice heard regarding the closure of the NHS Recompression Chamber at Dunstaffnage, near Oban.

The closure of this chamber means that decompression incidents on the West Coast will now need helicopter (or Ambulance) transport to Aberdeen increasing delay and risk to affected divers. You can express your views directly to your MSP or MP and by signing the online petition https://www.change.org/p/prevent-the-closure-of-the-nhs-recompression-chamber-at-dunstaffnage-near-oban

29/03/2024 Easter Holidays - HQ closed.

Please note that the office is closed from 29Mar - 10Apr for the Easter Holidays. If you have an urgent query during that time, please contact the relevant member of the Board. Thanks.

25/03/2024 Upcoming Courses

After the successful delivery of courses in Feb/Mar, plans are being progressed for further courses, but we can already confirm the following:

Branch Instructor – 20th April 2024
Deep Dive – 11th / 12th May 2024
Nitrox – 25th May 2024

Courses are only run where there is sufficient interest so…

Please register your interest on JustGo by adding your name to the Waitlist (in JustGo – Click on Events and Courses>>Click on the relevant course>>Click on Add to Waitlist. Note: Club Admins can also do this for members of their Branch).

If you have any questions, please do contact the relevant Course Director and if you have any problems adding yourself to the Waitlist, please contact HQ. Thanks.

19/03/2024 Keep our Pools Open

Scottish Swimming have a petition in the Scottish Parliament at the moment to keep swimming pools open as they are so vital not just for swimmers but for other sports such as our own who use them for techniques, training and safety.

This petition is being considered in Parliament on Wednesday 20^th March and it will be great to get as many signatures on it ahead of this.

The petition link is here. Recognise the value of swimming pools and provide financial relief to help keep pools open - Petitions (parliament.scot)

13/02/2024 Update on upcoming training courses

The significant work to ensure courses are running to meet demand is bearing results with following courses taking place in Feb/Mar:

Thursday 15th Feb – CWPS (Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport)
Sunday 25th Feb – Club Examiner Course
Sunday 10th Mar – First Aid/Heartstart/Oxygen Administration Course
Saturday 16th Mar – ScotSAC Nitrox Course
Saturday 16th Mar / Sunday 17th Mar – Regional Instructor Course

Thank-you to all those involved in arranging and delivering these courses.

9/01/2024

We hope the Christmas and New Year period was good to you and you are all ready to try out any shiny new kit Santa brought!

Membership Fees:

Please note that the updated membership fees as agreed at our AGM are now in operation and you can refer to them in the table on the Join Now page.

Training Courses:

There is significant activity in progress getting courses scheduled to meet demand. The current plans are as follows:

HeartStart / O2. Next course is 14^th January 2024. Course is now full, but planning is underway for the next course (potentially mid February) – please register your interest on JustGo
Deep Diving. Next course 13^th / 14^th January 2024. Course is now full, but planning is underway for the next course – please register your interest on JustGo
CWPS course (essential if you instruct in a branch that has juniors). Next date 15^th February 2024 (Virtual). Spaces available – please register your interest on JustGo. Branch CPOs will be given priority, however future courses will be scheduled to accommodate demand.
Nitrox. Next Course 16^th March 2024 in HQ. Spaces available – please register on JustGo if you want to attend.
Regional Instructor. Date TBC but targeting mid/late March 2024. The course is now full, but please speak to your Regional Coach if you want to take your instructing contribution to this level.
Branch Instructor. Next course TBC but targeting April – Spaces available. Please speak to your BDO and/or Regional Coach if you want to progress to become an instructor in your branch. You can then register your interest by joining the waitlist.

Note that in JustGo, when the course you wish to attend is full, you still have the option to join the waitlist for the course – that gets you into the queue for the next one or onto the scheduled one should a space become available. If you have any problems registering onto the waitlist, please contact HQ.

8/12/2023

Christmas/New Year: Please note that the ScotSAC office will be closed from 22Dec to 7Jan inclusive. Urgent items can be addressed to the Chair or to the NDO by email as appropriate.

7/12/2023

Reminder: Please be aware that there is only one postal collection per week from Caledonia House (on a Wednesday), so please allow for that when expecting qualification logbooks for new members of your branch. Once Kirsty has the logbook packaged up, it can take up to a week for it to actually leave the building.

1/12/2023

Scottish Sub Aqua Club
Please note that our office at Caledonia House | 1 Redheughs Rigg | South Gyle Edinburgh | EH12 9DQ is open:

Monday and Thursday on 0131 625 4404

Also available by phone only on Tuesday on 07543 673 616

Email: hq@scotsac.com | Website: www.scotsac.com | Membership login: scotsac.justgo.com

18/7/2022

New Admin and Finance Officer

After much searching we are delighted to welcome Kirsty Carella as our new Admin Officer. Kirsty comes to us with lengthy experience in administrative roles in various settings.

She started work with us on 18th July 2022.

She will be working 21 hours per week, her working days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

New Deep Diving Course Date

16/04/2015

The next Deep Diving Course has been arranged for 25th - 26th July 2015 at ScotSAC HQ. Please log in to the members area and check out our courses section for full details.

Scottish Dive Conference 2015 - Save The Date!

19/03/2015

The 2015 Scottish Dive Conference will be held on November 21st 2015 at Stirling University. Details of this years lineup will be announced over the coming months, so make sure you like the Scottish Dive Conference Facebook page to keep up to date with all the excitement.

Suunto Award for Volunteering 2015

13/02/2015

We are delighted to announce that once again, Suunto UK are sponsoring the ScotSAC Annual Award for Volunteering, and have generously donated a top of the range DX Dive Computer.

This award is designed to reward an individual's exceptional contribution to our sport. It recognises an outstanding individual who has performed as a volunteer beyond the normal call of duty. They need not hold a position of great power. Their contribution could be effort that has encouraged new people to become divers, encouraged existing divers to complete further development training, the organisation of dive expeditions, or some other activity that has raised the profile of diving in a positive way. It may also be an Instructor or a club committee member who has encouraged and developed new divers and delivered training. If you know of any individual within ScotSAC who has made a significant contribution to the sport, in any way, now is your chance to nominate them for recognition.

There will be 1 prize of a Suunto DX (D ten)- the world's first watch-sized CCR dive computer, worth a whopping £850! The DX is the perfect combination of functionality and style for underwater adventures and everyday wear. The newest addition to the D range of Suunto computers, it's capable of monitoring dives conducted on air, nitrox and trimix on both open circuit and CCR. It possesses all the typical features expected of a high spec. dive computer including 3D tilt compensating electronic compass, with gas switching between up to eight gases & five modes - CCR, Air, Mixed Gas, Gauge and Off (Normal/Time Setting).

Nomination forms are available to download here. Judging will be by a panel consisting of the Chairman, National Diving Officer and General Manager of Suunto Diving UK. All Nominees must hold current membership of the Scottish Sub Aqua Club and may not be current members of the Board or National Diving Council. The closing date for nominations is 6th November 2015.

ScotSAC Office Open

02/02/2015

ScotSAC HQ is open again following illness. There's quite a lot of work to catch up on, but please be assured that I'll do my best to respond to all queries that have come in as soon as I can.

Thanks for your patience.

Kate

SDC - Last Minute Information

12/11/2014

Tomorrow is your last chance to buy your tickets in advance for the Scottish Dive Conference this Saturday. You can buy yours here until 6pm tomorrow (Thursday 13th November).

A complete line-up can be seen below, and on the SDC Facebook page, along with a schedule so you can plan ahead and get the most out of your day with us.

Raffle tickets for the prizes, worth over £1000 in total, will be on sale throughout the day. Two more prizes have just been added:

Deep Sea World are offering a Junior shark encounter (valid until 1/9/15). This is valid for children (age 8-15) regardless of having dived before or not. They'll be diving on a platform in their main tank with the sand tigers coming real close.
William Shiel is offering a day's diving for 2 people at the Farne Islands.

Check out the prizes on offer on our website here, or on the Facebook page here.

The photography competition rules and fantastic prizes can be found here, so bring your prints with you on the day.

And finally, don't forget about our disco/ceilidh taking place in the Stirling Court Hotel where you'll be able to relax along with the speakers and helpers. Tickets are available here.

We look forward to welcoming you all to Stirling University on Saturday.