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Imperial College Underwater Club (ICUC)

Dive Club (English)

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Company description ICUC is the club to SCUBA dive with if you are a student or staff at Imperial College. ICUC founded in 1957. The first overseas expedition was to the Azores in 1959. In 1965 ICUC was part of a joint expedition by 5 UK universities` to Malta. F. Irving and J. Woods from Imperial College were investigating thermoclines found around the archipelago in association with the Naval Weather Service.
In 1995 ICUC organised one of it`s most ambitious trips to date: Maldive Archipelago Reef Study (MARS) `95. A team of seven IC divers lead by Howard Wilson investigated the hypothesis that ``The distribution of coral species within a particular habitat on a coral reef is not random. This distribution is affected by the competition between different coral species.`` To test this they needed to map an area of approximately 300 square meters. They only had eight weeks to complete the task and there equipment is stuck in customs…find out how they got on by reading the trip report.
The first RIB owned by the Club was an made by Ospray, unfortunately one trip in the closing years of the 20th Century it was nicked - so the current RIB, a 6 m Deepsea 21 made by BWM, was purchased. In 2001 we moved back to the `refurbished` cellar in Beit Quad after an eighteen month `holiday` in the Royal School of Mines.
2002 saw the purchase of a new Avon inflatable, which was named Icy Double. However it was quickly discovered that this was a bit of a tougue twister if you were out with Icy Diver so in 2003 it was renamed Icicle
We also offer training and dive courses:
Ocean Diver
Sports Diver
Dive Leader
SDCs
Instructor
Conversion
If you already have a diving qualification with another agency (NAUI, PADI etc) we are happy to accommodate you in ICUC. All that we ask is that you attend one of our Crossover or Conversion courses after which you will receive an equivalent BSAC qualification.
Hope to see you soon!
Location description: Our Dive Sites and Dive Trips:
Gozo
Gozo is a very small island just off Malta in the Mediterranean Sea which has still has a very colonial feel to it. The sun will shine, the water will be warm and the vis will go for about as far as you can see. We will be spending 6 days diving all around the island investigating all the great shore dives that exist: walls, caves, tunnels etc.
We’ll be staying in self catering accommodation and should have hire cars while we’re there provided by the local dive centre (BSAC affiliated) who will also sort out cylinders and lead for us. We may well eat out a fair bit as well as the local restaurants are supposed to be pretty good and very reasonably priced.
We’ll be flying out from Heathrow to Malta where we’ll be met by the dive company to take us to the short ferry ride to Gozo. For the first couple of days a friend of mine who has been diving in Gozo for many years is going to dive with us and get us orientated and then she’ll leave us to it. This trip should be full of great diving and provide a fantastic opportunity to see a very pretty island, coupled with the flexibility of hire cars we should be able to get almost everything everybody wants to do in.
Plymouth
The trip will include such classics as the HMS Scylla (18-26m, squids are there, marine sanctuary zone), the James Egan Layne (Old US Liberty ship, 9-24m), and Hands Deep (reef with jewel anemones, dogfish, wrasse, urchins and sea cucumbers), as well as much much more. The vis should be pretty good in June. The trip is suitable for newly qualified sporties up, so there`s no reason not to put your name down if you are training at Easter.
Portland
Matt Kaplan is organising a weekends diving out of Portland. This trip is designed for Dive leader training and as such is only open in the first instance to qualified Sports Divers and those who require DL training. Portland is a very popular diving destination and there are a great selection of accessible wrecks in the 10-25m range, making it especially perfect for SD experience and DL training.
Scapa Flow
This trip is FULL!
Lundy
The trip is going to be costly. The boat charges £92 per person, entree fees, food, and camping on the island will likely be another £10, fuel will probably come to £15, and a B&B in Clovelly will probably be £25. Anyway, I am expecting the weekend to come to about £140 per person.
It should be fun and if things work well, than I will book up a number of other trips to Lundy for next year.
Red Sea Livaboard Trip
The trip will be announced properly shortly after Easter Training trip so that everyone gets a chance to come along. its absolute bliss to be in warm clear blue water, then you add all those colourful fish. Its cool.

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SCUBA club for students and staff at Imperial College, London.

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London
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Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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