Hi everyone,

Due to a bereavement, I’ve had a last-minute cancellation for the GLUG trip to Honduras for 1 week from 28th April to 6th May (arriving back in the UK on the 7th). The price is US$890 not including airfare (flights are currently selling for around £650).

For more details, see this post.

If you’re interested, please contact me by logging in and clicking the envelope at the top of the post, or use the Contact Form to send a general enquiry.

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the recent problems with the Gallery. Hopefully all is now working again.

Cheers,

Neil.

Hi everyone,

This is a final reminder that if you haven’t yet renewed your GLUG membership (or had it extended by us), you’ll lose your access to the members areas of the website at the end of this week.

To prevent this from happening, please print off a Membership Form, fill it in, and send it with a cheque for £10 to Fiona (address is on the form).

Neil.

PS. If you’ve decided not to renew, and it’s because you’re unhappy with the club, please drop us a line (e.g. using the Contact Form) explaining what you feel we’re doing wrong - we do appreciate constructive criticism.

HI

I have one spare ticket for the London International Dive Show at the Excell Centre on Sat 1st and 2nd April.

Discounted price of £7.50.

23-28 December
Similan Live-Aboard with Rainbow-Scuba, Thailand
Escape the cold and the stuffing this Xmas. Spend 5 days 5 nights on luxury Nautica. Price 48,500 baht approx. 700 pounds sterling
Full details on web site www.rainbow-scuba.com

hi guys, is the gallery up and running again? I cant access it at the moment.

GLUG MEETING MINUTES 7 MARCH 2006

Officers’ reports
UK dive coordinator (Corinne)
o Apologies from Corinne. All UK dives with up to date vacancy details are on the website.
o Farnes – Pink Tank spaces now being filled by GLUG waiting list
o There are still places on Fiona’s Swanage trip. The trip is 9-10 September and is suitable for Sports Divers/PADI Advanced+
o Neil to pursue Guernsey trip. Action Neil

Treasurer (Alan)
o Apologies for absence

Membership secretary (Fiona)
o 66 paid up members so far this year. Fiona will send out a final reminder for those who have not yet paid. Action Fiona
o Anyone who has not paid their sub by the end of March will be deemed to be no longer a member and will not be able to access the members’ area of the site. Action Neil

Publicity officer (Kirk)
o Apologies for absence

Webmaster (Neil)
o Neil updating GLUG gallery. If you have any photos you want to put on the website, drop Neil and email and he will explain how to upload them.

Equipment coordinator (Corinne reporting for Steph)
o 2 SMB reels have been purchased plus a new 02 kit. Belts and weights still to be bought.

Dorothy Divers (Corinne)
o Apologies from Corinne

Other dives
o No other dives planned at present
o Rainbow Divers (California) are considering a trip to Sipidan/St Kitts. Neil will put details on the website. Action Neil

AOB
o Allen to contact Siobhan about her dive kit. Allen to purchase suitable gift to be reimbursed by GLUG. Action Allen
o Neil has costed T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom. Neil to find out how many current members might want to purchase in order to decide number to buy. Action Neil
o Neil has put a link on the website to a site where you can design your own logbook. Also, company makes nametags that can be left with dive skipper when diving to reduce risk of being left behind. GLUG earns 10% on first order. Action Neil

Date of next meeting
o 7.30 pm Tue 4 April. Advance apologies from Debbie. Neil offered to chair.

Hi everyone,

Fiona and I would like to remind everyone who hasn’t yet paid their renewal subscription, that you will lose your access to the members area of the website if we haven’t received your membership form and payment (£10) by the end of this month, you will lose your access to the members area of the website.
Please make sure that you fill in the membership form in full, even for renewals - many people change emails, home addresses, phone numbers, etc. in the course of a year, and this ensures that we have up-to-date contact details.

I thought it would also be a good opportunity to remind people of a few website tips - click on the link below to read more.

I received this email today from Gaynor of Kenna Ecodiving, near Barcelona in Spain:

My partner and I had been diving here for a number of years before coming to live on the Costa Brava; and had noted a big difference between the protected and unprotected areas.

So we began a research project to look at diversity within the sea grass in a local bay, initially to make our own diving more worthwhile. Soon diver friends from the UK and Ireland were joining us regularly and we started to feed our data to a Catalonian conservation organisation CRAM.

The project has grown from there and we now have volunteer divers coming from all over the world to help with our research, especially budding u/w photographers and divers with an interest in conservation.

In return for the help in gathering data we offer free ecodiving and some intial training on species identification and data collection techniques.

Volunteers (up to 6 per week) stay in a lovely apartment, with private pool, and are collected from Girona or Barcelona airports and brought down to the boat each day for diving.

Have a look at our website to get more info on the sea grass (Posidonia oceanica), see photos, etc.

Members of your group would be assured an excellent stay with great diving and with much fun to be had.

Best regards Gaynor

Their trips cost €223 (approx £160) for 1 week, including airport transfers, accommodation, and up to 10 dives (weather dependent).

If anyone would be interested in organising a trip, or just going on a trip, please leave a comment below.

Apologies for the completely non-diving related post, but this is very funny!

I discovered an interesting Scuba-related site a couple of days ago, and thought I’d share it with everyone…

The site is called Dive-logs.com, and, as the name suggests, they specialise in Dive Log refills, but for me, far more interesting is another product, called Scuba Tags.

These are made from high-strength, UV-resistant acrylic, measuring 6.5cm x 4cm, and can be custom engraved with your details. They come with a stainless steel split ring for attaching to equipment.

The obvious use for these tags is to identify your equipment, however one of their customers has suggested an excellent safety use: Give a tag to the boat skipper when you get in the water, and say you’ll collect it when you get back on the boat. The skipper then knows that if he has your tag, you’re still in the water, and there’s therefore less chance of getting left behind (anyone seen the Open Water movie?)

I’ve signed GLUG up for their affiliate program, which means that if you click through to their website from here, GLUG will get 10% commission from your first order. This will help the club to keep its membership fees down.