Red Dragon Divers Pembrokeshire


Red Dragon Divers scuba diving club


 Welcome to Red Dragon Divers
We hope you enjoy your visit to our web site, which will tell you all you want to know about our club. If you have any questions please follow the link:
 Email Red Dragon Divers

Red Dragon Divers is a small, friendly and active scuba diving club and is branch 0495 of the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC).
We are based in Pembrokeshire and make the most of our diving in the Gulf Stream warmed waters of Britain's only coastal national park. We dive from Easter until autumn each year on Sundays and on Wednesday evenings. 
Extra diving is also available on Saturdays and during the week, tides and weather conditions permitting, of course. We also try to have a diving week towards the end of each summer when as many of us as possible take the boats out to dive old favourites and to try out new dive sites.


Diver Training 2010

We are starting a new training course for a limited number of novice divers on Sunday, 7th February 2010 at Fishguard Leisure Centre.  If you would like to put your name down, or find out more, please call Mike on 01348 831862. 


The Wreck of the Hermina

For a report and pictures of last summer's trip to survey this wreck, please click on the Calendar/News link in the index on the left.


Diving off Grassholm - Picture by Jackie Williamson

The diving

We dive all around the coast, from the wrecks of Milford Haven in the south, out to the islands of Grassholm, Ramsey, Skockholm, Skomer and the wreck of the Lucy, rocky outcrops such as Stack Rocks, Green & Black Scar and Hen & Chicks in St Bride's Bay and round to Porthllysgi, Abereiddy, Abercastle, Strumble Head, Dinas Island and Newport in the north.We are proud of our safety record and good diving practices and all our members are encouraged to develop their skills as they gain more experience. All members dive within their personal limits of expertise and experience.

We enjoy all types of diving, whether they are exciting drifts, fragile walls, wrecks, wild life or exploratory and are often surprised by what we find.

Follow this link to find out more about the wreck we discovered off Strumble Head and to read some of our dive reports.  Dive reports



2009 Dive Plan

To get an idea of where we dived last summer, follow the link below:
  Click here for dive plans for July and August 2009


Any questions?  Call Rich on 01437 763618.

Club teeshirts now available
To find out more, go to the Calendar/Newsletter page

 

  Red Dragon Divers in Action (DVD)

Click here then sit back and enjoy the club DVD, filmed on location in Pembrokeshire by our diving officer Richard Hughes, narrated by training officer Rebecca Hughes and featuring club members.
The stars of the show are
filmed in their own underwater environment: look out for curled octopus, compass jellyfish, lesser spotted dogfish, common lobster and three varieties of crab, just for starters.
We also visit
Pembrokeshire's famous shipwrecks, combining shots of them resting on the sea bed with original film of these historic craft before they met their untimely end.
(We are grateful to Cumara Music Company for allowing us to use their music. www.cumara-music.co.uk)




Membership
Red Dragon Divers (RDD) has around 20 members, from all walks of life. It is open to people from Pembrokeshire and further afield. Its members are a mix of men and women, young and old. You have to be at least 18 years of age to dive with RDD but there is no upper age limit. At present our youngest member is in her late twenties and the oldest are in their early sixties.

The main requirements for novice divers are enthusiasm, commitment to the training programme and a willingness to learn. You also need to be reasonably fit and will have to complete a medical declaration to show that you are fit for the sport of scuba diving. It costs £60 a year to be a member of Red Dragon Divers and all club members also have to join BSAC. BSAC subscriptions vary according to the member's age, qualifications and whether another member of the family is also a member. The maximum annual cost of joining BSAC as a branch member is £50.00.  For more information about BSAC visit www.bsac.org

Trained diver from another agency? Red Dragon Divers welcomes qualified divers from other recognised dive training organisations and can provide cross-over certification, further training and skills development courses to those who join our club.  Call Jackie Williamson on 01348 831862 to find out more.

Red Dragon Divers operates a one year probationary period for all new members.


How to join Red Dragon Divers:

     Email the membership officer, Jackie Williamson

Web site updated 12th January 2010


Words by Jackie Williamson, WordAid, 01348 831862

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