Benefits of club diving?

[spikeysnake]

but if it dosent itch I aint scratching

[Woz]

First rule of Dive Club? You don't talk about Dive Club.

[JamieG]

The people in the club are very nice guys, its just that at the moment I don't see the benefit of being a member. I could still dive with these people as most dive on a commercial RIB etc and save £100 a year.

It sounds as though most people here are in clubs that have access to a Rib, air etc etc and i can see the benefit in that.

[David G]

Originally Posted by Justin Owen

A trip out on our boats with your mates costs us on average about £15 each in fuel and costs. RHIB charter for the day will cost you about £45. No brainer for us!

Justin,
Can you give some idea of how you manage to dive for £15 each?
Are you very close to the sea?
How do you cost everything?
Cheers,

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by David G

Can you give some idea of how you manage to dive for £15 each?

Our club builds mooring, maintenance, compressor, pool hire in the winter and such costs into the sub so all we really have to do is cover the fuel. It works out at £6 for an inshore dive plus £1 a mile extra if it's over 5 miles out.

It could be argued that non-divers are subsidising divers but we're a dive club so nobody wants to admit to being a non-diver. If you only did one dive a year it would be costing you £186 quid but just half a dozen dives put you below a commercial going rate for the year. In fact on a monthly SO I don't actually notice it, unlike the other gas bill.

On that deal we seem to need two boats and we just replaced our compressor and bank so 300bar trimix is no problem. (we pay cost for fancy gases)