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What is happening to the traditional BSAC Club?
It has come to my personal attention that a particular long standing BSAC club have been moving away with BSAC traditions.
This club has been around for many a year now and has a heritage and a past history to build on, but it appears that some strange sort of 'modern' thinking has infiltrated the club's thinking.
Looking at the membership, it is obviously that the normal lardy, bearded BSAC member is nearly extinct in this club! Beer induced blubber is hardly seen and facial hair is almost non-existent here. Even the male members of the club are following in the women's footsteps.
This particular club does have it's own bar, but it appears that this too is being lost on the days of old, as the most popular refreshment is not four pints of lager and 2 packets of crisps, but a diet coke.
As if all this were not enough...
For some years now they have accepted 'voodoo gas' as being a normal breathing gas, and have Oxygen and Helium available for those suitably qualified. Having banks of J's, a Haskel to scavange and a club O2 analyser. They also have two air sources, the traditional oily pump mixed with exhaust fumes for the die hards and a new fangled 'double filtered' system for the modern gas breathers.
(Well they would have O2 and He if that delivery man would stop dropping gas quads on himself and get back to work instead of being off sick - slacker.)
Some of those 'death divers' who use rebreathers are considered 'normal' members of this club and are even thought of to be 'advanced' be some of the more modern members.
It appears that the slide away from great British traditions gets even further.
The final shift in the equilibrium has come lately. It has been decided that the club rooms will become "Smoke Free" in keeping with our right not to breath other people's cigarette smoke. Who ever heard of such a thing - a non-smoking BSAC club? Now the members sit in their club room, only taking up one seat each drinking their diet coke, discussing what mix they will be using on their next dive yes, they actually dive too) and not polluting the lungs of the rest of the non-bearded, members.
BCAC is dead - Long Live the New BSAC
(BTW, this is actually a real club, not just some figment of my over active, Friday imagination)
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It has come to my personal attention that a particular long standing BSAC club have been moving away with BSAC traditions.
This club has been around for many a year now and has a heritage and a past history to build on, but it appears that some strange sort of 'modern' thinking has infiltrated the club's thinking.
Looking at the membership, it is obviously that the normal lardy, bearded BSAC member is nearly extinct in this club! Beer induced blubber is hardly seen and facial hair is almost non-existent here. Even the male members of the club are following in the women's footsteps.
This particular club does have it's own bar, but it appears that this too is being lost on the days of old, as the most popular refreshment is not four pints of lager and 2 packets of crisps, but a diet coke.
As if all this were not enough...
For some years now they have accepted 'voodoo gas' as being a normal breathing gas, and have Oxygen and Helium available for those suitably qualified. Having banks of J's, a Haskel to scavange and a club O2 analyser. They also have two air sources, the traditional oily pump mixed with exhaust fumes for the die hards and a new fangled 'double filtered' system for the modern gas breathers.
(Well they would have O2 and He if that delivery man would stop dropping gas quads on himself and get back to work instead of being off sick - slacker.)
Some of those 'death divers' who use rebreathers are considered 'normal' members of this club and are even thought of to be 'advanced' be some of the more modern members.
It appears that the slide away from great British traditions gets even further.
The final shift in the equilibrium has come lately. It has been decided that the club rooms will become "Smoke Free" in keeping with our right not to breath other people's cigarette smoke. Who ever heard of such a thing - a non-smoking BSAC club? Now the members sit in their club room, only taking up one seat each drinking their diet coke, discussing what mix they will be using on their next dive yes, they actually dive too) and not polluting the lungs of the rest of the non-bearded, members.
BCAC is dead - Long Live the New BSAC
(BTW, this is actually a real club, not just some figment of my over active, Friday imagination)
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