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	*Clydebank* *Sub Aqua Club-News & Events* Clydebank Sub Aqua Club meets at the Playdrome Pool on Wednesday evenings at 9pm. If you would like to find out what S.C.U.B.A. Diving is all about, come along and have a "Try-Dive". All you need is swimming gear but you must be 14 years old plus. Branch AGM was held on Wednesday 24^th February. There is a Full Report on the Members Page of the website. If you are unable to access this page please contact the Webmaster. That would be me - Keith! The Branch Levy is now due. Michelle has managed to hold the Levy to the 2009 fee. She has done this for the last 3 years, so thank you Michelle. Single Membership-£100 Joint Membership -£150 This Levy provides access to the Pool sessions on Wednesday evenings. It also pays for Club equipment servicing & insurance, contributes to boat servicing and the purchase of new equipment. Michelle will be happy to receive cheques as soon as possible, so come on, you'll only spend it on the kids! Compressed Air remains at £2.00 per fill from the Club Compressor. Boat Fee remains at £5.00 per dive (£10.00 for a 2 dive day).If the boat fuel is still out of pocket then the balance is divided by all participating divers. The Winner of the Tam Sneddon Memorial Trophy 2010 is Thomas Burke. Congratulations to Tom. There is a Full Report on the "Members Page" and also the "Tam Sneddon" page. Please look at the "Bonaire Diving" page for the Full story of the holiday. Are you signed up to "Scubatext"? SCUBATEXT is a FREE Texting service for Divers. Log on to http://www.firetext.co.uk/scubatext/ to find out all about it. To subscribe to the Clydebank Group all you have to do is send the following text: join [password] send it to 07797 801661 that's it!! Done! Contact Keith via e-mail or phone to find out the [password] You can also send a text to everyone on the System. Text [password] + your initials + your message to 07797 801661. We only want your initials so that we know who has sent the message. We can use this service to notify final details regarding Dive Destinations, times of departure, etc, so sign up today and be "in the loop" Events for February Friday 5^th February 2010. Grand Curry Night. Too late! You missed it! The event was a great success with plenty to eat, plenty to drink and a great deal of chat about the important things in life ---- like diving! Thanks to Michelle for organising the food and roll on the next Clydebank Curry . Diving in Oban at Easter2010 Joe has been busy. He has provisionally booked a 6 person Bunk Room at Oban Divers for Friday night 2^nd, Saturday night 3^rd and Sunday night 4^th April 2010. This is the Easter Weekend. The accommodation is for 6 divers. The cost is £40 per night (£6.66p each/night) making a total of £120 for 3 nights. If we get 6 people that works out at £20 each for the 3 nights. Pretty good value!! The accommodation is literally a “Bunk Room” for 6. You will need to provide a Sleeping Bag, food, utensils and your own cooking facilities such as a Camping Gas stove but I’m sure that we can work out a sharing arrangement. Electricity is extra and tokens are used. You will also need, obviously, your diving gear and personal clothing. The plan is to take the Branch Boat and explore the Oban area on Saturday, Sunday and Monday before returning to Glasgow on Monday late afternoon. The party would probably “eat out” in Oban on at least one evening. Further details about the Oban Divers site, now known as Roseview Caravan Park, can be seen at http://www.roseviewoban.co.uk/information.html STOP PRESS - 2 places left for this trip to Oban. Go to the Members Page for Joe's contact details. New "Buddy Breathing" Technique The SSAC is planning to introduce a new Buddy Breathing technique. The method, devised by John & Michelle Morgan, has been practiced and perfected by them over several weeks. It is hoped that this new method will help to foster good relations, steady on now, within the Club and bring in new members. The technique should be rigorously practiced in the relative safety of a swimming pool before Open Water Training and only by consenting adults. (photo by Gordon Downie) *New Underwater Mobile Phone* A breakthrough in Mobile Phone technology has recently been announced by “Sea-Chat Comms Ltd”. The company has spent the last 18 months developing a mobile telephone which can be operated usefully in a very wet environment, particularly underwater. The breakthrough came with the successful demonstration of the technology which enables radio waves to cross the water/air interface at the surface of the sea. Researchers have adapted the principles of Phase Shift Positive Feedback Loop technology to control the Mobile phone transmission waves as they are refracted at the water/air interface. The problem was that as the transmission waves radiate from the phone, they reach the surface at infinitely variable angles and are thus refracted at different angles as they pass to and from the air above the water and on to the nearest conventional mobile phone mast. This problem weakened the signal considerably but has now been overcome. Another major problem was the sea pressure on the circuitry. The pressure increases by 1bar for every 10metres of depth. The circuitry has been embedded in glass fibre resin. The keys on the mobile phone are small magnets which create minute currents in the circuitry when the key or magnet is pushed. The microphone and earpiece are merely adaptations of technology already in existence. The final problem of battery power has been overcome with the latest developments in Lithium-Ion batteries. Radio waves are absorbed rapidly over distance when travelling underwater. Inspite of this limitation the “Sea-Chat” mobile phone can be operated from a depth of 30metres depth. The diver can hear perfectly well, if his/her neoprene hood is not too thick. Talking underwater requires some practice. Nevertheless, it is thought that this invention will add dramatically to diver safety. The phone will be available on 01/04/2010 and retail at around £130 plus a contract with a Mobile phone Service Provider. Dive Sites for 2010 In an effort to diversify our diving we would like all members to give some thought to where they would like to dive in 2010 if the weather ever improves !! We are looking for a mixture of old favourites and some new or less well visited sites, particularly those accessible using your Club boat. We will then draw up a Dive Programme. As ever, it would be weather dependent, but at least we can try. Ideas please to Brian, your friendly Diving Officer, or indeed anyone on the Committee. Follow this link to check the Weather & Sea conditions before we go: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/inshore/regional_forecast.shtml?15 Here is a link to an excellent short film called "Water Babies". If you have very young children and wish to introduce them to the water, you should take a look at this film on You Tube http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IzMXwphx-FA&feature=related

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