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Who and what is SUCS1624?

We are the Students Underwater Club Southampton (SUCS), the 1624 is the BSAC club number.

Although we run under a BSAC constitution, the multi-agency nature of our club has led to the dropping of the word BSAC and so we are now more commonly referred to as SUCS1624.

The club is dedicated to the students, staff and ex-students of Southampton Solent University, but we also have a limited number of non-students, who are the core elements of our instructor team.

Every year we take on non-diving freshers and train them to be proficiently confident UK divers. For those that are already divers we actively encourage them to improve their diving skills by attending SUCS run Skill Development Courses in every aspect of scuba.

Many of our students excel to the point where they have become diving instructors and as such they have gone on to achieve jobs teaching/diving in exotic places such as Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and the UK (is that exotic? Ed) to name but a few. Often this is tied in with either recreational, sports management or maritime, oceanography degrees.

How do we achieve our goals of diving excellence? We have a wide range of instructors to call on, spanning quite a selection of diving agencies. Pick and mix the good points, skills and disciplines from each agency.

Winter Months:
Each week we train, teach and are lucky with the quality of our first class facilities. Lectures are carried out using full AV suites and pool sessions take place at the purpose built divers training pool at Andark.

For the open water parts of the courses, we use the Royal Navy diver training lake at Horsea Island and for deeper elements, Vobster in Somerset.

As the winter-water in the UK is not that hospitable and we start to yearn for the sun, we run dive holidays to the Red Sea and Lanzarote. These are unbelievably excellent holidays crammed with diving, for divers of every level.

Summer Months:
We carry on teaching and training where appropriate but the emphasis of the club changes, we go diving - big time! Using the South's hard boats, we dive the coast's abundance of wrecks. Everything from massive container ships, German U-Boats to Ocean going tugs etc.

In short, this is a very hard working club that is very proud of its well-earned reputation in the dive industry. Don’t take our word for it though, come and find out for yourself.

Meet time is 6.50pm Tuesdays - HCO33.

Welcome to our dive club - SUCS1624.