http://www.bsac.org.au/ Bass Strait Aquatic Club en-au Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:22:00 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Bass Strait Aquatic Club (BSAC) News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.bsac.org.au/images/logo.gif http://www.bsac.org.au/ http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=76.html The club Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday 15th August, 3pm at Scuba Dr in Rye. We'd like all members to attend, visitors and prospective members are also welcome. Agenda is Reports from Committee, including ratification of next years budget. Elections of Committee members for next year. General Business. Dinner at the local pub. We usually have a club dive in the morning before the meeting. Watch the forums for details. Please get any nominations for committee members into the current committee asap. You can nominate yourself, or you can nominate other members. If you are nominating other members please get their agreement before doing so. At a minimum we need to fill Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and Dive Officer positions. Where only one person is nominated for a position they will be elected unopposed. See the committee forum for the list of available positions. If you have an item you want discussed at the meeting please let the committee know via the forum. One thing that will need to be discussed is what we spend the non specific grant money we received from the Bendigo Bank and the Mornington Penninsula Council on. Don't forget that annual memberships are due in August. Neil will have your renewal forms ready to sign on the day. Funds should be transferred to the club account between the AGM and the 31st August. The actual amount required for membership will be determined at the AGM. Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:22:00 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=75.html Divelog are running a competition for club based Articles Competition in summary is: $500 to club the article is based upon (issued 2 x a year) $25 to monthly winning article (issued monthly) Stipulations: 550-650 words plus two or 3 high-rez colour photos on any Club activity to be submitted to: barry at motpub dot com dot au or any questions, speak to Neil Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:34:35 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=74.html We have confirmed dates for the aforementioned course Dates - 19 & 20th July 2010 Location of training - Docklands Time - 7pm - 10pm Please see forum for further details.. Thu, 13 May 2010 06:39:59 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=73.html Hi All - we now have mircrofleece beanies and neoprene slap straps with the club logo available for sale. The slap straps are the velcro ones that replace your standard mask strap. Cost $15 Beanies are Blue Microfleece. Cost $20 If you want eiither of these ask Neil. Don't forget you can also get, vests, shirts, fleeces etc. done to order. Have a look in the club clothing brochure availble in downloads. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:11:10 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=72.html Hi All, Thought i'd get my arse in gear and finally get around to welcoming the new members to the club, so here goes. As club Dive Officer, i'd like to extend my hand of welcome to the following new members: John Constable - Crossing Over as Ocean Diver, and just commenced a Sports Diver course Phil Watson - Crossing over as Sports Diver Mark Campbell - Crossing over as Sports Diver Jen Corbett - Crossing over as Sports Diver Phillippe Bridgeman - Crossing over as Sports Diver Look forward to seeing you guys at the next club get together on the 27th April 2010. Regards Neil Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:47:34 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=71.html 8th February 10 Nominate your club’s unsung hero.... ...for a Suunto Branch Volunteer of the Year 2010 award! Back for a second year, the search is now on for 30 Volunteers of the Year in BSAC's initiative designed to reward our branches' 'unsung heroes'. And we are now asking all our branch members to submit a nomination. Following on from the successful launch of the initiative in 2009, The Suunto Branch Volunteer of the Year 2010 award aims to recognise the significant and invaluable contribution our many volunteers make to both BSAC and branch diving. Sponsored by Suunto, we have a D6 computer, worth $1,000, to award to each of our 30 Volunteers of the Year, selected from around the BSAC regions. In additional to the regional winners, there will also be an overall Volunteer of the Year 2010 winner selected, who will be awarded the prestigious Jonathan Crusher Award. To nominate, complete the online nomination form - closing date for completed nomination forms is 15th November 2010 http://www.bsac.com/core/core_picker/download.asp?id=17314 Did you know….any BSAC member can nominate a fellow member for Volunteer of the Year? So many of BSAC's branch members work tirelessly for the benefit of their club and fellow members and so we would now like members to nominate their own branch's unsung hero or heroine. Any current BSAC branch member is eligible for nomination. We are looking for members who have made an exceptional contribution to your club and reasons to nominate a fellow branch member could include: Going beyond the call of duty to make things happen Outstanding and dedicated service to the branch Fundraising, securing grants, recruitment of members Support, mentoring and encouragement of trainees Training, instructor development, dive organisation Individual actions and or/support that makes a real difference to the branch diving experience You can read more about last year's winners and nominators and then nominate your own 2010 unsung hero at www.bsac.com/volunteer2010 Closing date for entries is 15th November 2010 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:12:37 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=70.html VSAG have organised a visit to the Victorian Police Search and Rescue Squad in Williamstown and have extended an invite to BSAC club members. There will be a slide presentation as well as showing old and new dive gear. Details are below: Russell Dehnert Leading Senior Constable 23040 DATE: WEDNESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2010 LOCATION: 100 Nelson Place Williamstown Vic 3016 TIME: 7pm (Parking is most likely on street and we may need coins for the meters) If you are interested please book in with John Lawler by email: jlawler@aapt.net.au Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:03:51 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=69.html Hi The joint club get together for this month at Bells was going to be on Australia Day next week however due to people being away/busy/etc at this time it's been moved to Tuesday 2nd Feb. Time (7.30pm) and Place (Bells Hotel) will be the same. Hope to see everyone there Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:32:35 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=68.html The HMAS Canberra is officially open for bussiness as of tomorrow. Dive charter bookings can be made at: www.ozdivecharters.com...ook_online and www.divevictoria.com.a...q=node/298 ohh and scuttlebuttscuba.com.au/ Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:47:03 GMT http://www.bsac.org.au/News/article/sid=67.html Dear All, Please note that the December 2009 joint club get together at Bells Hotel south melbourne, has been brought forward to Tuesday 15th December. As this will be the last one before Christmas and the New Year, we would love to see everyone attend. In addition, as we will have a BSAC guest member over from the UK who works for the Met office, we will be having a brief presentation on “Forecasting and understanding the Weather” Australia centric. Please express in advance if you have any particular questions you would like to ask, so that they can come prepared Sincerely Committee Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:11:54 GMT