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Scuba Equipment
Learning Scuba Diving
RomseySAC won a lottery grant in 2004 to purchase four complete sets of Scuba equipment. Including suits, stab-jackets, regulators, cylinders etc. This equipment is available to new members that are undergoing their Ocean Diver training. This brings a number of benefits. Firstly, scuba equipment is expensive (~£1200) and this allows a trainee to purchase their own equipment over several months reducing the impact of a single large spend. Secondly, a new trainee may be unsure of the underwater environment and therefore this equipment enables a trainee to experience diving to find-out if they like it as a sport or not. Thirdly, this allows us to easily provide Try-dives, so that members of the local community can experience diving in the secure confines of a swimming pool.
Progressing
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Once a trainee has been hooked on the sport of scuba diving. RomseySAC would expect that a diver would purchase their own equipment. The club scuba equipment remains available (for example, as a back-up when ones own regulator is in for service). A hire charge would then be made to the diver.
Additional Equipment
RomseySAC has other equipment to assist with diving, like the Emergency O2 equipment or the Rescusi Annie for AV/CPR training. This pool of equipment enables a safer diving environment and a reduced cost of diving to individual members.
