Starting a diving club
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Check out the Caloosa Dive Club's website for ideas.
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sucker4scuba
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smatterchu:
Well, one way around the "babysitting" thing is to get the non-diving partners involved. Organise that the Non-diving partners get together at a different one's house every time and leave the kids with them. You can some DVD's or games for the kids and the non-diving partners can socialise while keeping an eye out for the kids. The other option is to get a babysitter for the club and pay her a fee from the clubs money...
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aabdalla:
This is a great idea. As soon as we are up and running I will get hold of you and we can organise something!!!
fabasard
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Cape Town Crusaders?
African Aqua Elite?
South African Seals? (You could have a dive flag with a seal peeking out from behind the flag)
African Aqua Elite?
South African Seals? (You could have a dive flag with a seal peeking out from behind the flag)
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fabasard:
I like!!!!
The South African Seals one is cool!!! In short "SAS" - SAS is also the acronim for "South African Ship" for the navy in South Africa which makes it even more applicable. As in SAS Drakensberg - One of our Navy war ships. I will definatly have that one as a surgestion at our first meeting!!!
Congratulations on your efforts to create a scuba divers club. I founded one with a few friends of mine. You can check out our website in my signature.
I would recommend you think about what you mean by a dive club. Do you want to start club that is social in nature and dives, or a club that dives and socializes during surface intervals? Many clubs have people pay dues and meet at a local restaurant to socialize and talk about diving. If providing a social environment is your goal, then this is not a bad way to go. However, if you want a club of serious divers, forgoe the meeting for pizza once a month to talk about somebody's dive to Cozumel.
A serious dive club should be about diving and facilitating people to go diving. It should have a framework for allowing members to meet each other and setup their own dives as well. I recommend having one official dive a month, publicize it heavily and see if you can get local dive shops to sponsor events, like raffles and games. It will take time to build, but your first event must be a success, if it is, then word of mouth will travel and more people will show up.
As for a name, how about Great White Divers, or Hope Divers, or Divers Hoping to Avoid Great Whites?
I would recommend you think about what you mean by a dive club. Do you want to start club that is social in nature and dives, or a club that dives and socializes during surface intervals? Many clubs have people pay dues and meet at a local restaurant to socialize and talk about diving. If providing a social environment is your goal, then this is not a bad way to go. However, if you want a club of serious divers, forgoe the meeting for pizza once a month to talk about somebody's dive to Cozumel.
A serious dive club should be about diving and facilitating people to go diving. It should have a framework for allowing members to meet each other and setup their own dives as well. I recommend having one official dive a month, publicize it heavily and see if you can get local dive shops to sponsor events, like raffles and games. It will take time to build, but your first event must be a success, if it is, then word of mouth will travel and more people will show up.
As for a name, how about Great White Divers, or Hope Divers, or Divers Hoping to Avoid Great Whites?
renpirate:
Thought about that, but given South Africa's history it could have unintended connotations.
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As for a name, how about Great White Divers, or Hope Divers, or Divers Hoping to Avoid Great Whites?[/QUOTE]
Ren, that's a bit problematic. I have to admit it occured to me also.
Carl
As for a name, how about Great White Divers, or Hope Divers, or Divers Hoping to Avoid Great Whites?[/QUOTE]
Ren, that's a bit problematic. I have to admit it occured to me also.
Carl
Oh gee don't I feel really dumb now!!! I am a world history teacher! Yes, lots of bad connotations.
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