Cork Sub Aqua Club

For prospective members with no previous diving experience, there will be an opportunity to try out SCUBA equipment in a shallow heated pool under supervision by our instructors. This will take place in the Leisureworld pool on the 26th January at 7pm.

Please contact us for more information.

If the posts on this blog have tempted you to take up diving and you live near Cork then:

Cork Sub aqua club is looking to recruit about fourteen beginners with no prior diving experience to begin instruction and pool training in November 2008. The training will be towards CFT and CMAS one star and two star certification. Training is free of charge except for pool costs (should be about 100 euro); but you will have to join CFT and Cork SAC. Training nights will be Mondays 7PM ( a little bit earlier on pool nights to allow time to get changed), with theory classes and pool work on alternate weeks. The training will be in Ringaskiddy near Carrigaline about 15KM from Cork.

A medical will be required, you should also be able to swim 200 meters in a pool (any style and not timed).

You will eventually be expected to get your own equipment but for initial training we can borrow from existing members. If you had a wetsuit or semi-dry to begin with that would be good.

The one star course is planned to run until mid December 2008.
This qualifies you to dive to 25 meters (obviously after some qualifying work in the sea, and becoming dived up to that depth) with a two star diver, or thirty meters under certain limited conditions.

The CMAS certification is recognized world wide.

Two star course will run in February.

We will also take people with prior qualifications but as part of a separate crossover course to run in January 2009.

Contact 086 1089435 if you are interested.

Two Star Tests Oysterhaven 27 July 2008

Originally uploaded by riordan_david.

James Branich, Michiel De Rooij, and Stephen Barry along with Candidates from Blackwater SAC and NMCI SAC at their Club Diver tests. All the Candidates passed, Congratulations ! Stephane Portrait, and Finbarr Murphy from Blackwater were Mon 2 testers, along with Declan O’Grady Lucie Kirby and Don MCCarthy form Cork, Fiona Duggan participated as a Mon 1. Olin O’Farrell Dave Riordan and Gerry Horan helped out.

The NMCI candidates John Ryan and Will Jagoe are the first ever to complete the certification from that club which as only been in existence for a few years.

Just a quick note on the blog to let people know that I have booked the NMCI pool and a training room there.
Crossover pool training will begin (and hopefully finish) on January 19th 9:00Am to 10:30Am, crossover lectures 11AM to 2PM the same day. This session will be for people with existing qualifications from a different certification agency only, there will be no beginners at this session.
Any people who contacted us in 2007, expressing an interest in joining Cork Sub Aqua Club will have been sent an invite to a Club Open Night Thursday, January 10th.8pm. Soho Bar, Grand Parade, Cork. They will also have been sent the details of the required medical test. We will have a better idea of numbers and grades after the Open Night.
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Paul and Donal hard at work at the serious business of extended range training.

Entering the water from a pier fully kitted with a twin set and stage bottle is not easy and may require the assistance of a buddy.

Donal lends his boot.

Practice makes perfect, so the next time that Donal comes across a serious pier blockage, he knows exactly what to do.

Group photo

It was a foggy day, so we had planned on doing just half the distance for safety reasons, but then the fog lifted and most people did the full swim. About a nautical mile. There was a barbeque to finish.

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Don leads Jonathan to shallow end

I hope everybody enjoyed the pool training. Beginners, crossovers, existing club divers, and extended range divers all used the pool sessions to practice their skills and to try out new equipment before the start of the dive season. Thanks to everyone who helped out and loaned equipment.
Thanks to Donal O’Connell for the photos.
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Hi There,

This is a message for new members who may wish to join Cork SAC. I’m just going to detail our pool and lecture plan so that you know our schedule. New divers will need to be available for all three pool sessions. Divers with some experience will need to make one Pool session.
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Cork Sub Aqua Club’s Open Night will be held upstairs in Counihan’s Bar on Thursday the 18th of January, 2007. All welcome.

Please let us know if you’re coming, by filling in this form.

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Originally uploaded by rf_keane.

This is one of the pictures taken at Pool Praining sessions in NMCI at start of year. The pool photos were taken by Donal O’ Connell.

These photos ( and others) can be viewed in the members section under Rorys Photos. (scroll down page – on rightside)