DUSAC
Who we are
Dublin University Sub-Aqua Club is one of the biggest, longest established and most active scuba diving clubs in Ireland. We're also a friendly & sociable club with a great mix of people and a packed events calendar.
As an award-winning branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC), we can give you all the skills you need for scuba diving, and qualifications that are recognised worldwide.
Based in Trinity College, we dive throughout the year in Dublin Bay, all around Ireland, and abroad.To see where we've dived and what we've seen, have a look at our dive guide and gallery.
Join us!
We're open to all TCD students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), staff and graduates.
You can find how to join here, and read about learning to dive with us here.
Find us on Facebook & Twitter
Besides this site, you can find us on our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with all our public events.
External DUSAC web resources
Google Groups mailing list
Our mailing list is maintained on Google Groups. Information on the mailing list can be found here, and the list itself here.
Many DUSAC members are on Facebook, so a few years ago we set up a page for sharing photos and chatting. You can find it here
We have a Twitter account at twitter.com/trinitydiving where you'll find tweets of DUSAC news items and committee blogs. The plan is to use our Twitter account to announce events such as public talks, sign-up dates etc. These will, of course, all be announced on dusac.org too.
Youtube
We've not got a whole lot of videos from club members yet, but as and when we do, we'll tag them on our Youtube page.
DUSAC history
DUSAC was awarded the very prestigious award known as 'B.S.A.C. Branch of the Year 2008'! This was the icing on DUSAC's 40th birthday cake.
As this suggests, we have a long and colourful history stretching back to the earliest days of diving in Ireland. Hopefully we'll get round to filling some of that in soon...
Until then, to whet your appetite, you can have a read of what we were up to back in 2003, when we came runner-up in BS-AC's coveted Heinke Trophy. Dee Brophy put together a great report on all that the club did that year. You can find it here.
More recently in 2010 BSAC awarded DUSAC one of two commendations for our Heinke Trophy entry for the calendar year 2009-10, assembled by Paul Hickey. And in a one-more-heave attempt at scooping the big prize, here's our Heinke entry for 2010-11, put together by Jim O'Connell.
Sponsors
We are very grateful for funding from sponsors that has helped keep the club running over its long history.
Dublin University Central Athletics Committee (DUCAC)
DUCAC has long given us vital yearly funding to allow us to replace and upgrade equipment, and to help students with travel and training expenses.
Trinity Association and Trust
The Trinity Association and Trust has assisted us with a number of major purchases, such as replacing club boats. Most recently, they made a major contribution to a new engine that will give our Tornado boat a new lease of life.
The Trust receives a large part of its income through the Trinity Affinity Credit Card, available to Trinity alumni, staff and students. Details of the card scheme can be found here.
Cathx Ocean
Cathx Ocean make superb dive torches, amongst other things, and in the last two years they've very kindly given us two of their Euphos handheld torches to raffle. One now adorns Muriel's wrist, so if you've been diving in the same waters and wondered what that glow is, now you know. The other is up for grabs at our table quiz on March 31st (details here). Don't miss out!
Flagship Scuba
Flagship Scuba is a long-established dive shop based in a ship in Grand Canal Basin, Ringsend, Dublin. Over the years, Rory Golden of Flagship has helped us with deals on equipment for trainees, and has donated some terrific prizes for raffling in our fundraising efforts - most recently a Northern Diver HiD drysuit, won by a lucky guest visitor at our recent public talks series at which Rory himself recounted his adventures diving the Titanic.
About this site
Table of Contents
The site
We've had a website for a good few years now, and it's a great place for putting useful information so that it's accessible to everyone in the club and others who might be interested.
The current site was set up in 2008 by Tim Walsh and Andronikos Nedos, replacing our old-style site with a much more interactive wiki version that lets DUSAC members update the site themselves.
The site is aimed at several different audiences:
- Club members can use it to keep track of club events and find and update all our invaluable dive site, training and equipment information. Some pages are restricted to club members (log-in required)
- Potential new members will find details of how to join, and what they can expect from the club.
- The wider diving community will hopefully find our dive guide, tide, and weather information useful, and enjoy our photo gallery.
Registering for an account
If you are / were a club member, you can register for a site account here. When logged in, you'll be able to edit the site (club members only) and view restricted pages.
You'll have to wait until your registration is approved by the webmaster. Only DUSAC divers are approved, so we won't get spammers registering to vandalise the site and we can put up pages for viewing by DUSAC members only.
N.B. This site doesn't use encrypted connections (i.e. 'https:'), so don't use a password that you use for your bank accounts!
Account settings
You can change your user name, password or e-mail address yourself. To change your account settings, click the 'My account' link (upper left corner of any site page).
You can opt to have a 'personal contact form' allowing site members to e-mail you. If you choose to do so, your form will only be accessible by other DUSAC members.
You can add your phone number to the phone & e-mail directory, and choose whether or not to be listed in the directory (NB - only club members can browse the directory). You can also enter your diving and instructor grades.
Editing the site
Details of how to edit the site (dusac members only) can be found on our site editing page (Members -> Website editing)