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Introduction

The club is branch No. 0382 of the British Sub Aqua Club and has been established since 1971. It is rich with experience, equipment, great diving stories and lively diving characters. It currently has around 60 members, most of which dive regularly and with ages ranging from about 12 to 70+. The club is very friendly and socially active with frequent planned and impromptu nights out, quizzes and other events. It has a strong family feel and family and friends are made especially welcome.

It also has a heavy training commitment with a strong emphasis on safety and an excellent safety record.

This club meets on Wednesday evenings from 9.00pm in the tennis club [Map]. Underwater skills training is undertaken at a local swimming pools;

 

A brief history of Hazel Grove Sub Aqua Club

The Hazel Grove Sub Aqua Club was originally founded in 1971 by a splinter group from the Stockport Diving Club. The initial small group has now grown in size to our present membership

For many years the club met at the Grapes Pub in Hazel Grove but for the last 25 years they have been meeting at the Tennis club in Bramhall.

While having suffered over the last few years due to the recession and cheap foreign holidays (people diving abroad) the club is now on the up again, training has increased and the club has introduced several new training schemes.

Club Assets

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Over the years the club has invested in a wide range of diving associated facilities, these include:

The Diver and HGSAC.Wreck dive

Our main aim is to get our members out diving, we also undertake a large amount of training which takes place on a weekly basis at the pool sessions.

The training schedule follows the BSAC format which works its way through a highly structured grading system. During your training you will learn all about diving, theory, safety and first aid, planning dives, boats, seamanship etc. The club also takes an active role in encouraging any members who want to attend Instructors courses and assist the club in this way.

In addition to this the club also runs swimming training to assist weak swimmers get ready for there diver training, and to help more confident swimmers improve there stroke and fitness levels.

Additional training is also run for snorkeling and diver skills, such as wild life identification, and wreck appreciation.

The club has something for every type of diver; underwater photography;  wreck diving; scenic diving; tropical diving and the more technical diving using Nitrox, Trimix or rebreathers. If you have a flair for teaching then become an instructor and help others to discover the delights of diving.

Napoleon WrasseMost of the diving activity takes place over the summer months, when usually the British weather and hopefully the underwater visibility are more agreeable, but, the more 'keen' members opt to dive all year round using inland dive sites such as quarries like Stoney Cove or Hodge Close or to the River Lune and local reservoirs and dock areas. The summer dive sites are far more varied and last year we made trips to Anglesey, St Abbs, Farne Islands, Oban, Scapa Flow, all over the south Coast, Red Sea to name a few.

Snorkeling and the Family

The club has a very good family atmosphere, with children to be found at pool training almost every Friday, with the older ones often attending the club afterwards.

Snorkeling courses are organized several times a year, and most of the older members can be found practicing there snorkeling on a friday evening at the pool session

Social aspects

The club has a very active social side, in addition to the twice weekly meetings at the club there are always a number of special events that are open to all members, these include dances, curry nights, paint balling, stock car racing, quizzes anything in fact that the members will enjoy. In addition to that there are a whole host of fund raising activities which will help the club funds.