Upcoming Social Events

Monthly bbq - TBA (very soon)

Walking tour of historically significant social gathering places - TBA

See you all there

Also don't forget the..

• Weekly pub meetings at the Clyde Hotel (cnr. Elgin/Cardigan). Come along at 8pm on Thursday for a social drink and to plan the coming weekend's diving.
• Events Calendar: Want to know what's planned for the upcoming year? Keep an eye on the Message Boards for more information.

Learn to SCUBA dive

UPCOMING COURSES

Questions about MUUC courses? Check our MUUC FAQ and Dive Course Info webpage for lots of useful info!! 

PADI OW and AOW courses are run on a regular basis. PADI specialty courses such as Nitrox, Deep or other PADI specialty courses can be organised on demand. The club also offers IANTD tech courses and CDAA Cave training. Please contact the course coordinator Luke, for more details or to register interest for a particular course!

The costs given on the website include all course associated costs, but exclude membership fees, dive medical where necessary, additional gear hire where applicable, transport and accommodation!

The Course Enrolment Form can be downloaded here. Please make sure you print out a copy and bring it along with the deposit when you enrol for your course. This form is needed for all courses!

PADI Open Water Course 

Cost: $450 (includes all course associated costs, except dive medical ($110-$160), membership fees ($40 or $130), transport and accommodation)

•  You must be available for all 4 days! 
• If you are interested in one of these courses, please contact the course coordinators
• If you have four or more people, we can also often arrange courses on request.

You can find a list of doctors who can do diving medicals for you (incl. a quote current as of Feb 08) here.

PADI Advanced Open Water Course 

Cost: $360 (includes all course associated costs except membership fees ($40 or $130), transport and accommodation)

• Register your interest by contacting the course coordinators.
  
• The course includes 5 dives (Navigation, Night-Dive, Deep-Dive and 2 other specialty dives)
• There will also be a theory night in the week before, which you will have to be available also
  
• Minimum requirement: PADI OW or equivalent certification
  

[Optional: AOW combined with Nitrox specialty course available for an additional $170]

PADI Nitrox Course

Cost: $295 (includes all course associated costs except membership fees ($40 or $130) and transport)

• Nitrox courses (theory + two dives) can be run along with any advanced course.
• Minimum requirement: You must hold an AOW certificate and have 20 logged dives!
  

PADI Rescue Course

• TBA (Instructor: TBA) - 4 spots available
• Theory nights: TBA in the evenings
• EFR: TBA (one night)
  
• Minimum requirements: You need to hold a PADI AOW or equivalent certification.
• First Aid Certificate: can be done with the course if you don't have one already (less than 12 months old)
• we also offer Oxygen provider courses (1 night) and First Aid courses (1 night) seperately
  

Costs: (include all course associated costs except membership fees ($40 or $130) and transport)

• Rescue Course (incl EFR & O2 provider course):$520
• Rescue Course only: $320 (if you hold a valid EFR and O2 provider certificate less than 12months old)
• Rescue & EFR Course: $460
  
• Rescue & O2 provider Course:   $420 (if you already hold a valid First aid certificate less than 12 months old)
• EFR & O2 provider course only: $220
  
• EFR course only: $150
  
• O2 provider course only: $105 (or $75 for refresher course)
  

If you are interested, please email the course coordinators .

IANTD Deep/Nitrox Course:

Cost: $550 (incl. all course associated costs, but NOT boatdives ($100-$250, depending if club boats or commercial charter is used); membership fees ($40 or $130), gear, transport and accomodation where needed)
[$490 if you already have nitrox qualification]

• Contact the course coordinator for dates
  
• Instructor: Michael O'Toole
• Minimum requirements: check out the IANTD homepage and talk to Michael O'Toole
• Interested? Want to join the course? For more details contact the course coordinators

PADI Dive Master Course

Cost: $690 (includes course associated costs except membership, dive medical, transport, accomodation and dives when assisting on courses!)

• contact Course Coordinator if interested!
  
• Minimum requirements: You have to hold a PADI Rescue certificate and a minimum of 20 logged dives to begin the course. You need to have a minimum of 60 logged dives to be able to finish the course!
• Interested? To find out how to join contact the course coordinator.

The PADI Divemaster course is a demanding and time-consuming, but very rewarding course! MUUC runs this course on an internship bases. Allow yourself about 6 months to finish this course.

Any questions? Check out the FAQ section for more useful infoor contact your friendly course-coodordinator Luke

Buddy Up!
Latest diving summary [link]
Already got an idea for a dive? Post it on the forum and find some MUUC members to buddy up with [link]
New to the club and need help getting on a dive? [e-mail the Dive Coordinator]

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Upcoming Dive Trips

More trips being planned so stay tuned, and remember you can always organise a trip yourself! If you've got somewhere you'd like to go but aren't sure where to start, just e-mail the Dive Coordinator.

Western Victoria 12-15 February 2010

We'll be visiting Western Victoria in mid February for some spectacular diving in kelp forest, wrecks, reef, freshwater (maybe) and more. Driving down to Portland on Thursday evening 11th Feb and diving Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday (12th to 15th February).
 
Portland is about 4.5 hours west of Melbourne and has many attractions including diving, surfing, National Parks and more. We'll rent a house there for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights meaning four full days of diving, and what ever else you feel like doing.
 
Costs for the trip look like being in the vicinity of $200 including all your accomodation, boat dives and fills. The more people that come, the cheaper things like accomodation and towing costs become!
 
To secure your place, you'll need to make a deposit of $50. We'll be taking deposits this Thursday at the pub, or get in touch directly.
 
The range of dives includes Snorkelling, OW, AOW, and Cave/Wreck Diver level dives (including some penetration dives in caves for enthusiasts).
 
If you want to check out what sort of diving there is,
 
Warrnambool Sub Aqua Club has a few listed:
http://www.wavesncaves.com/sites.htm
 
As do Professional Diving Services in Portland (or they did, the link might have disappeared):
www.profdivers.com
 
An idea of what we might do while we're there:
Cape Nelson - wide variety of dives on complex reef 6-30 m.
Cape Bridgewater - similar to Cape Nelson.
Portland Bay - shallower dives
Emily S Wreck
Lawrence Rocks
Warnambool - fantastic dives to 15 m to the west of Thunder Point (big overhangs, swim throughs and more)
Sea Caves near Portland
 
And if the weather is no good:
Piccaninnie Ponds and Ewen Ponds are just over the SA border, and the Glenelg River not far away either!
 
There's a variety of boat and shore dives, even opportunities for snorkeling if people don't have their diving qualification.
 
Hope you come along!
 
Pete Crockett - email

Tasmania Easter 2010
A trip to Tasmania this Easter is currently being planned, cost will be about $600 for the week.  For more information or to register your interest see here.

Underwater Hockey

The best fun you'll have on the bottom of a swimming pool!

The sport is played along the bottom of the pool, where teams of 6 players hold their breath and move a lead puck into goal trays on each end of the pool. You have to push, flick and otherwise manouvering the puck with short, hand-held sticks. See this article for more information on the game.

Club games are played at 8-9pm on Monday nights at the uni Sports Centre pool (on Tin Alley). No prior experience is necessary and all equipment (except mask and snorkel) is provided, so just turn up if you're interested in giving it a try. Sessions generally consist of a half hour warm-up and skills practice session, followed by a half hour game. Make sure you get in by 7:50 to allow time to get changed, select gear, etc.

See the Underwater Hockey page on the website, the Underwater Hockey section of the message boards for discussion, or contact the underwater hockey coordinator if you have any questions.