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 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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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Web site updated 12th January 2010
Words
by Jackie Williamson, WordAid, 01348 831862
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