Leading The Way - 29/03/2015

Some say that dive clubs are dying. Not so Eastwood ScotSAC. Today we had around 15 trainees in the water and around 25 people in total. That's a lot of people at one site all learning to dive for the measly cost of their annual membership fee (£150). It was also nice to encounter the divers of the Napier University Sub Aqua Club  who were also out learning to dive.

I doff my cap to them in particular for a very particular reason. Due to a lack of funds their small club can't afford drysuits, so they dive in.....wetsuits. Pretty hardcore in March, in Scotland. If you have an old drysuit lying around why not donate it to their cause? They aren't too concerned about styling (trust me I saw the wetsuits), but functionality is important. You'll be doing young Harriet et al a favour.

As for me I was leading divers around the site (Seal Reef). On each occasion three divers went in, and three came out. I consider that a dive leading success.

I took one photograph as it was too big a scorpionfish to leave un-papped

Scorpionfish