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SSAC - Scottish Sub Aqua Club

Associations Organisation Scuba Diving (English)

Service:
  • Dive Centre Center
  • Dive Club
  • Dive Shops
  • SSAC Club Centre
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Scuba Equipment Servicing
  • Scuba Gear Rentals
  • Wreck Diving
Company description

The Scottish Sub-Aqua Club (SSAC) was founded in 1953 in Glasgow. By the 1960s it had grown to 10 branches and has enlarged steadily thereafter. There are now nearly 70 branches with some 1900 members in total. Branches are found in many locations in Scotland with a number in the North of England. The Scottish Sub Aqua Club is governed by the General Committee, each individual branch is governed by it`s Branch Committee. Whilst the General Committee is the central administration body of SSAC, organisation and administration is carried out at branch level wherever possible. The General Committee`s main functions are development and co-ordination. The National Diving Council (NDC) is responsible for all the diving and training activities of SSAC under the National Diving Officer. The NDC sets and maintains high standards of training and provides information on all questions concerning diving and training. Decisions made at NDC meetings are presented at the General Committee for ratification, meeting minutes are distributed to all Branch Diving Officers. The NDC meets at least four times a year and organises an annual Diving Officer`s Conference. The following range of courses are available from the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club to all members. Core Diver training including Sport Diver and Master Diver are delivered

Location description: You can find many dive sites of England, Scotalnd and Abroad. There are full descriptions of each site and trip schedule. Here is some of them:
*THE CLYDE SWARMS WITH WRECKS
In the relatively undived lower Clyde area, many of these are almost virgin territory.
Our skipper had marks for some wrecks in 40m and deeper that had never been dived before - he was just waiting for a team with the right experience to dive them. Salivating at the opportunity, but constrained by the plans of the group, I had a great time diving wrecks in the 30m range such as the Longwy (Wreck Tour 15, May 2000), followed by a second dive in the shallow water surrounding Ailsa Craig.
From Girvan, Ailsa Craig looked like a rocky button mushroom just offshore. It was only as the boat approached that I began to appreciate the scale of the island and the height of the cliffs. It is actually 10 miles offshore, two miles in circumference and 340m high.
Ailsa Craig is the eroded stump of a 50 million-year-old volcano. The near-vertical columnar basalt cliffs provide ledges on which thousands of seabirds nest. The island is also one of the few sources of micro-granite, a form of granite solid enough for the manufacture of curling stones.
Sticking up in the middle of the busy Clyde shipping lanes, Ailsa Craig has seen its fair share of wrecks. A lighthouse is still operational on the north-east shore, but is now automated, with the keeper`s cottages privately owned....
*The Stassa
The Stassa was en route from Archangel in northern Russia to Limerick when it struck the rocks at Renish Point at the eastward end of Harris Sound on 15 July 1966. The Stassa was refloated the same day and taken into the sheltered waters of Loch Rodel on the east side of the isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. Perhaps the ship could have been saved, but the captain refused any further assistance. One rumour is that hidden below the cargo of Siberian timber was an illegal shipment of arms for the IRA, indeed there are further rumours that divers have found boxes of small arms amongst the remains of the cargo. The crew later deserted the ship, which then sank at anchor in Loch Rodel on 17 August 1966. At the closed end of a loch the marine life is not the spectacular anemones found on wrecks exposed to a current. Just a carpet of translucent white tunicates with a few sprigs of kelp on the port and upper side of the hull and tufts of hydroids lower down.
*Shetland Isles
About 100 metres in and the entrance is disappearing into the gloom. Further on the cut narrows and shallows. You can feel a strong surge running across the rocks as the gentle ground swell outside funnels through. Further still and a twinkle of daylight breaks the distance. Water now just one metre deep. The exit is still 50 metres or so away, but the route is obstructed by jagged rocks breaking the surface. At an estimated 300 metres long, this entrance must be well along the cliff from the Giants Leg arch where we started.
Contact information:

Phone: 0131 625 4404
Fax: 0131 317 7202
Street Address:
Caledonia House,
1 Redheughs Rigg,
South Gyle,
Edinburgh
Scotland
United Kingdom
EH12 9DQ
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa

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