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Scuba Equipment
Learning Scuba Diving
Romsey SAC won a lottery grant in 2004 to purchase four complete sets of Scuba equipment. Including suits, stab-jackets, regulators, cylinders etc. This equipment is available to new members that are undergoing their Ocean Diver training. This brings a number of benefits. Firstly, scuba equipment is expensive (~£1200) and this allows a trainee to purchase their own equipment over several months reducing the impact of a single large spend. Secondly, a new trainee may be unsure of the underwater environment and therefore this equipment enables a trainee to experience diving to find-out if they like it as a sport or not. Thirdly, this allows us to easily provide Try-dives, so that members of the local community can experience diving in the secure confines of a swimming pool.
Progressing
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Once a trainee has been hooked on the sport of scuba diving. Romsey SAC would expect that a diver would purchase their own equipment. The club scuba equipment remains available (for example, as a back-up when ones own regulator is in for service). A hire charge would then be made to the diver.
Additional Equipment
Romsey SAC has other equipment to assist with diving, like the Emergency O2 equipment or the Rescusi Annie for AV/CPR training. This pool of equipment enables a safer diving environment and a reduced cost of diving to individual members.
