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| Sunday, November 22 | | · | Swanage |
| Friday, July 10 | | · | St Abbs 2009 |
| Wednesday, May 27 | | · | Plymouth |
| Thursday, April 09 | | · | St Abbs Weekend 22 to 25 May 09 |
| Monday, March 09 | | · | New Dates Added to Calendar |
| · | ERD Course |
| Sunday, March 08 | | · | Club Competition |
| Thursday, February 26 | | · | Swanage. |
| · | LIDS tickets! 28th & 29th March 2009 |
| Monday, February 23 | | · | Advanced Nitrox Course |
| Thursday, February 05 | | · | Pool & Stoney Dates |
| Monday, February 02 | | · | AGM Meal 1st April 2009 |
| · | 18th Feb Pool Night Canceled |
| Friday, December 12 | | · | St Abbs Dive Weekend 23 to 25 May 2009 |
| Sunday, November 16 | | · | Advanced Nitrox course |
| Monday, November 10 | | · | Farne Islands 2008 |
| · | St Abbs 2008 |
| · | St. Abbs 2007 |
| · | Plymouth 2007 |
| · | Scapa Flow 2005 |
| · | Plymouth 2005 |
| · | Swanage 2005 |
| · | Teignmouth 2005 |
| · | Pembrokeshire 2004 |
| · | Portland 2003 |
| · | Pembrokeshire 2003 |
| · | Pembrokeshire 2002 |
| · | Pembrokeshire 2001 |
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 | ERD Course |
 pedro writes "After a long journey down the M5 I arrived at Chepstow NDC for a weekend of extended range divng instruction. With the instructors being Jack Ingle and Andy Hyat I was eyes and ears open and looking forward to the next few days.
The Extended Range Diving course is about giving you the skills to dive deeper for longer on air using different mixed gases for excellerated deco and the use of twin sets and stage cylinders. Along with correct dive planning and effects and dangers of deep diving.
With day one starting with a session on kit configuration straight away my attitude to what I was wearing, how I was wearing it and how I was using it was completely transformed and that was only the first two hours.
After much discussion and tweaking of kit we hit the water for 1hr 20mins of drills. DV exchange, bouyancy, gas switching with staged cylinders, clipping on and off stages, gas shut down drills and all these repeated again and again and again o and once again. Then it was back to the hotel for a nice short theory session.
Day two starting with simulated deco dive down to 40m with lots of built in stops starting at 30m finshing 50mins later at 3m. Being asked to ascend at 10m a minute (not one bit slower or quicker) felt rather odd. After all we've been told for years to ascend nice and slow. Real eye opener of a dive, 100% plan the dive dive the plan, no if's or but's only 100% displine will do. Again the afternoon was theory with deco planning techniques and scenarios.
Day three every thing came togther for the final dive to 50meters with deco at 30m, 21m, 9m, 6, and 3m utilising a 50% nitrox mix from 9m up. Being left as buddy pairs to plan and dive the dive gave us the confidence we needed to take away with us, that we have obtained the skills we need to carry out this sort of diving once we go our seperate ways. After the theory paper and debrief we'd all passed.
I'd recommend the course to anyone wishing to build on their diving skills, even if you don't wish to dive deep on air your thoughts on the way you do things will change and your skills will be greatly improved. And you meet some great people with lots to share.
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