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  • New Committee
    30/04/2012 - 22:52 webmaster

    Thanks to all who turned out for the AGM on Friday night, between 60-70 people were present and there was good representation from across the club. Many thanks to the outgoing committee members for all their hard work. The newly elected positions are as follows:

    • President: John Kenny
    • Chair: Stephen Collis
    • DO: Julian Carroll
    • TO: Eoin Kearney
    • EO: Vlad Titov
    • AEO: Dan Fitzpatrick
    • AEOs: Neil Moran
    • Treasurer: Maureen Williams
    • Membership Secretary:Kate O'Keeffe
    • Secretary: Katie Still
    • Webmaster: Philip Wardlaw
    • Entertainment Officer: Siobhan Hamilton Jones
     
  • Riders On The Storm
    08/03/2012 - 23:13 webmaster

    Riders On The Storm

    Friday 23rd March 2012

    Edmund Burke Theatre , Trinity College Dublin @ 7.30pm

    Join us in a viewing of the new film made by Waldek Furmaniak and Quentin Cowper about the underwater cave diving exploration beneath Gort Lowlands carried out by the late Artur Kozlowski.

    Entry is free and everyone is welcome to share this experience!

     
  • Dublin University Sub Aqua Club Are Recruiting
    14/01/2012 - 20:57 webmaster

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    Dublin University Sub Aqua Club are now recruiting new members with existing diving qualifications (PADI Open Water or equivalent). Come dive with us around Irelands fascinating coast line on our frequent excursions and have the best craic to be had! Go here for more information or contact  membership@dusac.org for more details! Open to TCD students and staff.

     
  • Dublin University Sub Aqua Club
    14/01/2012 - 20:51 webmaster

    Dublin University Sub Aqua Club are now recruiting new members with existing diving qualifications (PADI Open Water or equivalent). Come dive with us around Irelands fascinating coast line on our frequent excursions and have the best craic to be had! Go here for more information or contact  membership@dusac.org for more details! Open to TCD students and staff.

     

     
  • Bake Sale
    12/12/2011 - 21:08 webmaster

     

    A big thanks to Amanda, Katie, Muriel and all the bakers and sellers for helping out in our fantastic bake sale!
     
    So many people donated such lovely things, but somehow we managed to sell everything by the end of the day. We had several people return more than twice to buy more cakes because they were so delicious!
     
    We raised 426 Euro for the club so thanks and well done again to everyone for helping!
     

     
  • Frontiers in Diving: talks series Nov 2011-Feb 2012
    19/10/2011 - 01:05 webmaster
    INFOMAR: Seabed Mapping & 3D Visualisation of ship wrecks - Charise McKeon and Koen Verbruggen

    Thurs 2nd Feb 2012, Joly Theatre, TCD

    Open to all. 
    Charise and Koen work for the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) on the INFOMAR Irish Seabed Survey. As part of this multi-faceted project, our speakers work on...
     
  • DUSAC dive gear buying survey
    09/09/2011 - 19:01 webmaster

    We're busy setting up for our 3rd annual dive talks series starting in November (dusac.org/talks).

    To help fund the series, we're looking at sponsorship options, and so are doing bit of market research. We've put together a very simple, quick and anonymous survey:

    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NGDKMHV

    We would be very grateful if you could take a few seconds to fill it out as the info will greatly assist our endeavours.

    Thanks very much

    DUSAC

     
  • DUSAC wins BSAC branch awards
    01/09/2011 - 19:10 webmaster

    At the end of June, BSAC announced their branch awards for 2010-11, and DUSAC once again featured highly.

    Across all BSAC university branches, DUSAC were commended for having:

    •  The largest new member intake in 2010
    •  The highest number of Club Instructor qualifications awarded
    •  The second highest number of new Club Ocean Divers (the first qualification on BSAC's diving ladder)
    •  The third highest number of Club Assistant Instructors trained (the first step on BSAC's instructor ladder)

    Congratulations to all members of DUSAC and to the 2009-10 and 2010-11 committees for another very successful year.

     
  • DUSAC winter talks series 2011-12
    30/08/2011 - 21:57 webmaster

    Over the winter, we're going to be hosting our third annual series of public dive-themed talks.

    We have an an excellent line-up of speakers to talk about a range of topics from the leading edge of diving. This year we'll be hearing from divers at the forefront of cave and deep wreck diving, from researchers exploring Ireland's lost shipwrecks, and from some of the people who run the services divers call on when things go awry.

    All talks will be hosted in Trinity College Dublin, usually on a Thursday evening @ 7.30pm, with afters in O'Neills of Pearse Street.

    Talks will be open to everyone to attend. For details of times and places, go to dusac.org/talks

     
  • New engine for Topknot
    07/06/2011 - 18:51 webmaster

    [[wysiwyg_imageupload:39:]]A slightly belated story this, but better late than never.

    Topknot returned from Cork in February with a shiny new Evinrude E-tec 115 HP engine. She made a brief return to the seas on the boat handling course, but then had to go back to Cork for more work. She's now back with us, and is working perfectly.

    It took a lot of people to get the boat back to working order. First, we're very grateful to DUCAC for their financial assistance. Also, thanks to the outgoing committee and the club for their fundraising efforts (a special mention to Laura Nolan and Hazel Stafford). Many thanks too to Will Fyans for negotiating to get us the replacement engine.

    Before Topknot could be brought to Cork we had to...

     
  • New committee & AGM roundup
    20/04/2011 - 00:57 webmaster

    Another year has turned, the AGM has been and gone, and we've a new committee in place.

    Thanks to support from DUCAC and the Trinity Trust, our fundraising efforts, and shrewd bargaining by the old committee and helpers (Will Fyans in particular), we managed to buy two new boat engines and a trailer in one year, and still leave enough in the account to tide us over the diving season until the membership money washes in again.

    Many dives were done - a surprisingly healthy number, given our boat troubles - and lots of people joined and learned to dive with us. After the news, the lawyers were unleashed and briefly ran amok amending this and that. A spot of light voting followed, and then finally Paulie showed us some disturbing photo evidence from what - unbeknownst to many...

     
  • Thanks to CathX
    15/04/2011 - 17:42 Laura Nolan
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    CathX Ocean have very kindly sponsored DUSAC now two years running.

    They make great lights, provide fantastic service and we are grateful for their support.

    Visit their site or join their Facebook group to see details of the competitions they run!

     
  • DUSAC AGM - Friday 15th
    12/04/2011 - 20:02 webmaster

    The AGM is on Friday 15th at 7pm in the Davis Theatre, Arts Block, TCD

    Come & vote on the new committee, constitutional amendments and other motions, and discuss the future of the Novice Trip in a semesterised world.

    To see who's up for election, click here. Why not stand yourself while you're about it?

    Full details of the AGM are here.

     
  • Heinke Trophy entry for 2011
    06/04/2011 - 17:37 webmaster

    We've previously won BSAC's club of the year award, but never their Heinke Trophy - our two last efforts earned us runner-up and a commendation.

    In one more bid to scoop the prize, Jim O'Connell has put together an entry for 2010-11, with contributions from many club members. Click here to read it.

     
  • Heinke Trophy Application Submitted
    05/04/2011 - 14:34 Jimbo_oc
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     A big Thank You to all who helped out!

    Click here to view the final version

     
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