BUDDY DIVERS NEWSLETTERwww.skiptondivers.co.uk

Due to the severe weather the last meeting was cancelled, so there is not much to tell you about, that is not weather related!

Final Dives of 2010  - Have we all finished for the winter now the snow is here?

Christmas 2010  - Saturday 4th Dec Bowling and Curry– A cracking night was had by all who attended, again this was affected by weather, but a few hardy souls managed to get to Keighley for the bowling and then on to Azeems for a curry.

In the bowling, after playing a blinding game on behalf of Stu, (Mike playing for Stu was beating Mike playing for Mike at one point) Mike did eventually win the bowling but was ruled out of the prize as he did the scoring as well! Some thing fishy going on there! So honours go to Stu and the wooden spoon for finishing last, but trying very hard, went to Bev.

We had the 2010 SBD Club Awards as usual and this year the results were as follows:-

New members welcomed to the club this year are
 
Diver 2292 – Mick
Sijimon – Simon
Michelle O’Callaghan
Sherlock Holmes – Stuart
Simon Moorhouse
Old Guy – Patrick (who we also sadly had to say goodbye to and a glass was raised in his honour on the night)

We also welcomed a new junior member, baby Finlay to Steve and Sue Pedlar

Best Volunteer    - went to Adz, Dan, and Chris for their efforts at the Sue Ryder Dip in the Dales at Semerwater in the summer.

Top Hosts – went as usual to Jon and Joan for the magnificent efforts at the DVD night.

Best New Buddies  - went to Pennine Sub Aqua Club

Best Rant – went to Mike for his Red Sea Rant re hotel rooms

Best Write Up – went to Bev for her great Farnes Trip Report

Best Webmaster  -  well he is the only one we have and he does a great job, and now he has brought back the QUIZ to the Forum, game on Adz!

Pictures of the night are on the forum under Media and there are a couple of photos are attached to the end of this newsletter to whet your appetite. Check out JT's Egyptian styled outfit complete with scarf and shades!) SBD calendars were presented to the winners on the night. If you haven’t received your calendar (or you left it at Azeems!) or if you would like your own please see me at the next meeting.

AGM and Committee election the AGM will be at the January meeting on 6th Jan 2011.
Please put this date in your diary and we will need any questions or queries you want to put to the committee. You can send me a personal message or email with these. We will also need to elect the officials of the club, Treasurer, Secretary and Chairman, plus 2 general members. If anybody would like to stand for the committee we will now have to seek nominations at the January meeting.

Red Sea 2011 – Oh yes!!! Adz is organising a trip for 16th – 23rd Sept 2011. This will be on one of the Blue O2 fleet from Hurgarda (flight from Manchester. ) doing Brothers, Elphinstone and Daedalus. Adz has 6 people already booked from his dive school cost is £1149 and if anyone is interested please speak to Adz re details and costs or send him a PM or email.

Trips for 2011 – we will be looking to organise the club boat trips for next year soon, so please let us know where you would like to go and when, If you have shift days you have to work around if you let us know we will try and accommodate you as much as possible. Don’t forget we will be joining with Pennine Divers on some trips, so that we can go to some of the areas we haven’t been for a while because we couldn’t fill the whole boat.
I have put a poll and ideas on the Forum, please vote for your favourite FOUR short boat trips. The ones that get the most votes we will book. Favourites so far are Farnes, Oban, St Abbs and Ullapool and unless we get any last minute voting these are the four we will go for.

As we said we will be looking to fill a boat with the help of Pennine Divers. After a quick discussion at the end of the last meeting, we would both normally do the same trips, Farnes, St Abbs etc. However they are looking at a long weekend trip to Malta, there is a post in Local and Short trips about this on the Forum. Low cost flight, cheap accommodation and shore diving at a cost of around about  £120. I will add this to the trip list as an extra, so please indicate if you think you might like to go, so we can discuss at the joint planning meeting.

Into 2012!! Get saving, the trip for 2012 we are looking at going to the Red Sea in May or June, as the dive guides say this is the time to go to see the larger fishes and also a different set of fish to the ones we normally see in the autumn.  JT will be organising and he said he would prefer to do Brothers and Elphinstone. Please put this in your diaries.

Tanks – Club tanks - Please contact JT if you want to borrow them. Prompt return please once you have finished with them. Please speak to Craig if the JT’s are not available.

First Aid Kit & O2 please TELL US if you have use anything so that we can replace it. As we said before the First Aid and O2 must be returned to JT after each trip please.

Forum Highlights – Don’t forget to post some of your pictures or short video clips onto the media page on the forum. Please add any photos from your trips.

Please say hello to the new divers on the Forum. There have been several recently and hopefully they will be able to come to the meeting, be gentle with them.

Please tell everyone if and when you are planning a trip, someone may want a buddy and would like to join you. There are lots of mid week divers now, so just ask.

Please post details of your trips and let us know what you got up to

Just before you go, a very MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW DIVING YEAR to all in the club, friends from far and near and forum members.

Come to the meeting Thursday  6th January 2011 2010 at Cross Keys. This is the AGM so try and attend, prompt start at 8.15pm please.

SEE YOU AT THE MEETING