Dive Clubs in Fife

Well, it looks like we have got our new pad just outside Kinghorn on the
Fife coast (right on the sea, stunning views across the Forth to Edinburgh)
and a quick browse of the subaqua.co.uk site shows a plethora of diving
resources in the Kingdom.

I think I would like to join a club and herself has also expressed an
interest after not getting on at all well with the PADI
getitalldoneasquicklyaspossible style of training (due to having the same
model of inner ear as Nigel Hewitt...) which is very difficult when your
mind is focused on not throwing up rather than completing the dives on time.

So if any of you good people can give me any opinions, good or bad, about
the following organisations...

Fife Sport Divers (SAA)
Cupar Sub Aqua (BSAC)
C.A.T. Diving Club (SAA)
Dunfermline Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
Fife Kelpies Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
Glenrothes Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
Levenmouth Diving (BSAC)
Cloud Nine Divers Fife (SAA)
Kingdom Divers (SAA)
Kirkcaldy Sub Aqua Club (BSAC)
Martini Association of Divers (BSAC)
St Andrews Archaeological Divers (SAA)
St Andrews Sub Aqua Club (SAA)

Many thanks.

CAS
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CAS wrote:
> Well, it looks like we have got our new pad just outside Kinghorn on the
> Fife coast (right on the sea, stunning views across the Forth to Edinburgh)
> and a quick browse of the subaqua.co.uk site shows a plethora of diving
> resources in the Kingdom.

excellent - when do you move up? Off to Eyemouth (new dive site on RHS
of the harbour) Sunday with a few folks if you fancy it...

> So if any of you good people can give me any opinions, good or bad, about
> the following organisations...

The only one I know of is

> Cupar Sub Aqua (BSAC)

Who a friend of mine trained with. I know their (ex?) DO - who is also
one of the BSAC area coaches, and she's a good enough sort. I think they
go to the Isle of May - apparently lovely diving - quite often.

A club which isn't on your list, where I have quite a few friends, is
South Queensferry. Slight disadvantage is that it is just over the
bridge in Lothian, but they are a well experienced, open and active
club... I dive with them quite often and they are all good blokes.

I'll drop you an email with the names of some people to get in touch
with who have more of an idea about what's what in "The Kingdom".

Ben

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Ben Panter, Edinburgh
My name (no spaces)@bigfoot which is a com.

"Ben Panter" <See@the_end.not> wrote in message
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>
>
> CAS wrote:
> > Well, it looks like we have got our new pad just outside Kinghorn on the
> > Fife coast (right on the sea, stunning views across the Forth to
Edinburgh)
> > and a quick browse of the subaqua.co.uk site shows a plethora of diving
> > resources in the Kingdom.
>
> excellent - when do you move up? Off to Eyemouth (new dive site on RHS
> of the harbour) Sunday with a few folks if you fancy it...

LOL! A bit too soon I'm afraid - we are suposedly picking up the keys
towards the end of May.

> > So if any of you good people can give me any opinions, good or bad,
about
> > the following organisations...
>
> The only one I know of is
>
> > Cupar Sub Aqua (BSAC)
>
> Who a friend of mine trained with. I know their (ex?) DO - who is also
> one of the BSAC area coaches, and she's a good enough sort. I think they
> go to the Isle of May - apparently lovely diving - quite often.

Ah, the Isle of May, if I take a 2 minute stroll across a field to the east
of the house I can see it!

> A club which isn't on your list, where I have quite a few friends, is
> South Queensferry. Slight disadvantage is that it is just over the
> bridge in Lothian, but they are a well experienced, open and active
> club... I dive with them quite often and they are all good blokes.

Over the bridge for the next couple of years (so I believe) is likely to be
major inconvenience.

> I'll drop you an email with the names of some people to get in touch
> with who have more of an idea about what's what in "The Kingdom".

Thanks Ben, you're a star.

> Ben
>




CAS

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"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Well, it looks like we have got our new pad just outside Kinghorn on the
> Fife coast (right on the sea, stunning views across the Forth to
Edinburgh)
> and a quick browse of the subaqua.co.uk site shows a plethora of diving
> resources in the Kingdom.
>
> I think I would like to join a club and herself has also expressed an
> interest after not getting on at all well with the PADI
> getitalldoneasquicklyaspossible style of training (due to having the same
> model of inner ear as Nigel Hewitt...) which is very difficult when your
> mind is focused on not throwing up rather than completing the dives on
time.
>
> So if any of you good people can give me any opinions, good or bad, about
> the following organisations...
>
> Fife Sport Divers (SAA)
> Cupar Sub Aqua (BSAC)
> C.A.T. Diving Club (SAA)
> Dunfermline Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
> Fife Kelpies Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
> Glenrothes Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
> Levenmouth Diving (BSAC)
> Cloud Nine Divers Fife (SAA)
> Kingdom Divers (SAA)
> Kirkcaldy Sub Aqua Club (BSAC)
> Martini Association of Divers (BSAC)
> St Andrews Archaeological Divers (SAA)
> St Andrews Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
>
> Many thanks.
>
> CAS
> --
> Temperature @ Stoney? Find it or share it @
> http://stoneytemps.calumscott.me.uk/
> "The measure of a man's wealth is the fewness of his wants" - Jack
> Mullholand
>
>
well Calum once you have visited them all on club night in the bar. you can
tell us !

see you in Plymouth

David

> well Calum once you have visited them all on club night in the bar. you
can
> tell us !
>
> see you in Plymouth
>
> David
>
>

That thought had crossed my mind but having seen how many of them there
are...

....I suspect that my liver would object!

CAS
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Mullholand

"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:c6t570$fr1fr$1@ID-193985.news.uni-berlin.de:

> Well, it looks like we have got our new pad just outside Kinghorn on
> the Fife coast (right on the sea, stunning views across the Forth to
> Edinburgh) and a quick browse of the subaqua.co.uk site shows a
> plethora of diving resources in the Kingdom.
>
> I think I would like to join a club and herself has also expressed an
> interest after not getting on at all well with the PADI
> getitalldoneasquicklyaspossible style of training (due to having the
> same model of inner ear as Nigel Hewitt...) which is very difficult
> when your mind is focused on not throwing up rather than completing
> the dives on time.
>
> So if any of you good people can give me any opinions, good or bad,
> about the following organisations...
>
> Fife Sport Divers (SAA)
> Cupar Sub Aqua (BSAC)
> C.A.T. Diving Club (SAA)
> Dunfermline Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
> Fife Kelpies Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
> Glenrothes Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
> Levenmouth Diving (BSAC)
> Cloud Nine Divers Fife (SAA)
> Kingdom Divers (SAA)
> Kirkcaldy Sub Aqua Club (BSAC)
> Martini Association of Divers (BSAC)
> St Andrews Archaeological Divers (SAA)
> St Andrews Sub Aqua Club (SAA)
>
> Many thanks.
>
> CAS
> --
> Temperature @ Stoney? Find it or share it @
> http://stoneytemps.calumscott.me.uk/
> "The measure of a man's wealth is the fewness of his wants" - Jack
> Mullholand
>
>
>

Don't forget to visit Deep Sea World in North Queensferry as you are
just up the road from it - you can even dive with their sharks (at a
price)!

Chris Quinn

>
> Don't forget to visit Deep Sea World in North Queensferry as you are
> just up the road from it - you can even dive with their sharks (at a
> price)!
>
> Chris Quinn

Best aquarium in the country! (well, of the ones I've been to anyway!)

CAS

"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in news:c6tt5a$g68me$1@ID-
193985.news.uni-berlin.de:

>>
>> Don't forget to visit Deep Sea World in North Queensferry as you are
>> just up the road from it - you can even dive with their sharks (at a
>> price)!
>>
>> Chris Quinn
>
> Best aquarium in the country! (well, of the ones I've been to anyway!)
>
> CAS
>
>
>
>
>

I must declare an interest - I'm the IT manager for Deep Sea Leisure, which
runs DSW and Blue Planet in Cheshire - so i have to say that each is as
good as the other in their own ways, but it's warmer diving at Blue Planet!

Chris Quinn

"CAS" <calumscottREMOVETHISBIT@yahoo.com> wrote in
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>
> "Chris Quinn" <chris.quinn@nospam.zoom.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Xns94DBEA7275D53chrisquinnnospamzoom@194.117. 158.43...
>> "CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:c6tt5a$g68me$1@ID-
>> 193985.news.uni-berlin.de:
>>
>> >>
>> >> Don't forget to visit Deep Sea World in North Queensferry as you
>> >> are just up the road from it - you can even dive with their sharks
>> >> (at a price)!
>> >>
>> >> Chris Quinn
>> >
>> > Best aquarium in the country! (well, of the ones I've been to
>> > anyway!)
>> >
>> > CAS
>> >
>> I must declare an interest - I'm the IT manager for Deep Sea Leisure,
> which
>> runs DSW and Blue Planet in Cheshire - so i have to say that each is
>> as good as the other in their own ways, but it's warmer diving at
>> Blue
> Planet!
>>
>> Chris Quinn
>
> LOL! I was at the Blue Planet just a couple of months ago and was
> impressed. Once it stops being to new (if you know what I mean) it'll
> be really great.
>
> Oh, aye, and if you've got any short contracts I can fit in between my
> normal day-to-day...
>
> CAS
>
>
>

Unfortunately not - the IT department consists of me, and my budget is
somewhere between zero and bugger all!

It's the ideal job for me - I did a degree in Marine Biology in the late
70's, but couldn't find work in the field, so ended up in IT. An old
mate asked me if I fancied the job a couple of years ago, so I jumped at
it. I hadn't dived in about 20 years until I was asked if I fancied a
dip with the sharks at Deep Sea World, and I haven't looked back since.

We had some spectacular mating going on with the Sand Tigers at Blue
Planet a few weeks ago (it was filmed and we may release the footage
sometime) - it curtailed one or two dive nights on safety grounds, but we
hope to have some good news in a few months, fingers crossed! The water
at DSW is a bit cold for them and they haven't shown any mating behaviour
there yet. I like both places to dive in - I volunteer to do some U/W
photography from time to time - aren't I good!

Cheers

Chris Quinn

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> Unfortunately not - the IT department consists of me, and my budget is
> somewhere between zero and bugger all!

Kind of the way it goes these days!

> It's the ideal job for me - I did a degree in Marine Biology in the late
> 70's, but couldn't find work in the field, so ended up in IT. An old
> mate asked me if I fancied the job a couple of years ago, so I jumped at
> it. I hadn't dived in about 20 years until I was asked if I fancied a
> dip with the sharks at Deep Sea World, and I haven't looked back since.

That is what is known as a "jammie side up"!

> We had some spectacular mating going on with the Sand Tigers at Blue
> Planet a few weeks ago (it was filmed and we may release the footage
> sometime) - it curtailed one or two dive nights on safety grounds, but we
> hope to have some good news in a few months, fingers crossed! The water
> at DSW is a bit cold for them and they haven't shown any mating behaviour
> there yet. I like both places to dive in - I volunteer to do some U/W
> photography from time to time - aren't I good!

I will probably end up spending a lot of time at DSW, my nephew thinks its
just the best place ever! I did the epcot aquarium dive when I was in the
states last year - brilliant fun and just totally different. They only have
diddie little reef sharks....

CAS