DUSAC is very fortunate to have its own equipment for its members to use, and a committed team of equipment officers to maintain it. Read the Equipment Officer's blog here.

Club equipment

• 2 rigid inflatable boats (RIBs)
• 3 air compressors
• Nitrox blending station
• Around 20 sets of diving gear (tank, regulator and BCD)
• 2 Oxygen first aid kits
• Ropes, weights, buoys, lifting bags etc

Signing out equipment

Before going diving, you must sign out all of the club equipment to be used. Do this on the whiteboard at the foot of the stairs in clubrooms. All gear signed out in your name is your responsibility - it's up to you to make sure it gets brought back and put away after diving.

Returning equipment

After use, dust caps must be dried and put back on regulators. Stabs, regulators and bottles must be washed to remove salt, and then put back in the appropriate places downstairs in clubrooms: empty bottles on the left hand side at the foot of the stairs, regs hung up on the correspondingly-numbered pegs and stabs hung on the rails.

Oxygen kits go back on the shelves at the end of the work-room, by the door to the suit room. If the oxygen kits have been opened in the boat for rescue assessments, they should be wiped to remove salt water. Oxygen cylinders go against the wall inside the door of the work-room, around the corner from the empty air cylinders.

Damaged equipment should be left in the maintenance area - on or by the workbench. You should record the equipment number and details of the problem on the flip pad on the workbench so that one of the equipment officers can deal with it.