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Hi and welcome to SUCS, the Scuba club of Southampton Solent University and one of the most active clubs on the South Coast.

We are just gearing up to the new Uni year, so if you are joining Solent and like the idea of diving, then come along to Freshers and say hello.

It makes no difference to us if you are a student using us to gain a diver grade for your warm-water holidays, a hardcore UK wreck diver from another agency who just wants to go diving, maybe you are on a course like Marine Biology or Sports Management, where diving is an essential part of the syllabus or even just somebody who likes to go down the pub once a week. To us, from your first toe in the pool, you are a diver and a member of SUCS and that means we’ll train you to whatever level you want, take you diving to any level you want in the UK or aboard and most definitely encourage you to join us on one of the many socials.

So that's us, an all singing and dancing dive club, but it's pretty hard to grasp what we are like on a web site, so if you are new to the diving game come along for a try-dive and if you already a diver, come along for an actual dive. See the club, chat with our best ambassadors, the members themselves and make up your own mind.

 

What's included

There is no getting round it, diving isn't exactly a cheap sport, but we are a student club, so have to come up with a way of keeping the costs down and making it accessable to all.

That's why we work on fixed fees that are inclusive of many of the costs that would usually cripple anyone taking up the sport.

Included in your membership fee is:

  • BSAC membership (includes 3rd party insurance)
  • Sports Solent membership.
  • All pool sessions at the diver training facility at Andark

  • Unlimited diver training (typically 2 divers grades per year)
  • Comprehensive UK boat diving programme
  • Two overseas holidays per annum
  • Social calendar & special events

Now that might seem quite a lot already, but one of the biggest plus factors with SUCS is that knowing the horrendous expense of dive kit, without a considerable investment diving would be elitist. To put it bluntly only those with £2k to spend on kit would get trained. Well that doesn't happen in SUCS, we have enough kit to easily equip an entire hardboat load of divers in absolutely everything and we mean everything, even including quality Otter drysuits.

 

  

 

 

 

  

September

Yep it's Fresher's week and start of a new Uni year. Time to get down and check out the SUCS stand.

October

Loads of try-dives, first dives with the club & Socials. New people joining and some old faces renewing, with training in mind, so a busy month.

November

Well into both pool and theory training and for some the first forays into open water. Time for another social as well :-)

December

Just enough time for our Christmas party, then it's off to a warm-water destination for our first holiday. Not to be left out drysuit training continues in the UK.

January

Icebreakers - Eek. That's right some hardy souls actually do what seems like ice-diving , but the rest zip off to Lanzarote and our winter training base.

February

Consolidation time. Warm-water trained do drysuit, cold-water trained get the dive numbers up and then we start the 2nd grade.

March

UK sea-water diving commences, with our first hardboat trip to Weymouth, soon followed by the RIB. October beginners are now highly trained divers. Thats something to celebrate, so no surprises, we do!!!

April

The dive programme accelerates, with more dates and opportunities to get wet.

May

SUCStech rears it's head after the winter layoff with the May Bank Holiday and the start of some more serious dives.

June

With the end of the Uni year fast approaching, just time for a last round of parties and summer BBQ' ending with our diving/camping weekend in the New Forest.

July

UK hardboat diving continues as the RIB tends to take a back seat as twinsets and mixed gas takes over from singles. Time for a trip further afield and 2010 will see Plymouth in the Diary.

August

Possibly our busiest UK diving month with almost every weekend given over to some serious diving and a much needed break ready for the start of the new Uni year.
   
How Much & Joining

 

The single club joining fee is split into two parts:

BSAC Membership fee.

SUCS Membership fee (This is the bit we retain to run the club)

Both fees depend on your student status. Full-time students of Southampton Solent University would get reductions in both elements, however even though alumni pay full fees, there are some concessions in some areas

Best to have a word with Leanne the Membership Secretary over the current rates.

 

The rest is down to a simple bit of paperwork, with a few medical questions (nothing heavy) and then you are in. Although our main intake is in October, we are happy to take people on at any time during the year.

 

 

 

 

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