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Mole Valley Sub Aqua Club

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Company description We are a friendly, active SCUBA club based at Leatherhead Leisure Centre. MVSAC welcomes all new members whether experienced divers or novices. We run a strong training program . Courses start twice a year in September and February, but we will try to accommodate any training schedule. Just come down to the pool (location map link in orange, above) or email Andy Daniel, our training officer by clicking their name. We start our training schedule with a Try-Dive organised every February and September, usually in the second week. They start at 20:00 at Leatherhead Leisure Centre. Anyone who fancies giving scuba diving a try can come along and have a go in the pool with a qualified instructor, chat to some of our fully trained and experienced instructors and other club members to see whether they think diving is for them. Although these dates are structured to fit around our training program, we will welcome anybody to come down on a Wednesday evening around 20:00 and talk to anybody standing around the dive pool at the far end of the swimming area if they have requirements outside of this. We are emminently flexible and will do anything within our power to help out.
We run and maintain our own RIB and have members who view the MVSAC as both a diving club and a social club. In the next 18 months we have dives planned in the Scilly Isles, Scapa Flow, Cornwall, Lundy, Southern Ireland, Weymouth, Littlehampton, to name but a few in this country. Added to this are a few foreign trips undertaken each year. A number of our members are carrying out first aid and boat-handling courses. On the social side we have our Annual dinner and dance in December, Laserquest, Karting, Paintballing, boat-discos, family days, Tequila evenings, meals out, meals in, and any general fun and mayhem a club of eighty members plus, of ages ranging from 16-70 can get up to....
Try-Dive
We hold `try dive` sessions on Wednesdays in February and September. They tend to be very popular. It is a time where people who have never tried the sport before can experience the weightlessness and exhilaration of being able to breathe underwater accompanied by a very qualified and experienced Dive Instructor for very minimal cost. We supply all the equipment necessary, you just have to supply yourself.
Nitrox Charts & Calculators: As Nitrox is getting more and more popular both in the club and in the dive fraternity in general, we have made available a few tools to ease the work involved in calculating max depths and suitable gas mixes.
If you are planning your dives from your desk there are four web pages that allow you to calculate a number of different things, best mix for your dive, maximum operating depth, equivalent air depth and oxygen partial pressures at a chosen depth.
If you have any comments, suggestions, broken link information, content, link exchange ideas, or even if you want a friendly ear to listen to your opinion, email the club
We will invite you down the pub, buy you a drink and bore you to death with tales of diving fun and social excess
Location description: Wrecks and Dive Sites:
The MVSAC Adopted Wreck
From: Divernet
Depth: 26m.
Sunk: 2 December, 1944, in heavy weather when under tow after engine failure.
Diving: Upright, slight list starboard. Sanded to gunwales. 12-pounder gun and shells on foredeck. Derrick on bow with sweep wire. Remains of twin machine guns on port side towards the stern.
Launch: Bognor, Littlehampton.
From: Dive Sussex
Position: 50° 39` 41`` N 00° 35` 19`` W
Seabed: 26 m
Best dived: 5h 0m AFTER HW
Dimensions Size: 277tonnes
This Royal Navy trawler was built in 1918, and launched the following year at a cost of £21,000 under the name George Corten. Sold off in 1921 as part of the slimming down of Naval forces, she became a fishing trawler under the name of Zencon. In 1939, she took the name HMS Northcoates after being
requisitioned for mine sweeping in WW2. She sank on 2 December 1944, owing to ``stress of weather`` while under tow.
Today all 277 tonnes of HMS Northcoates sit upright in 26m with just a slight list to starboard. Her stern is to the north, and she is sanded up to her gunwhales. There is a 12 pounder gun (dated 1939 on the breech) on her foredeck, and a box of shells found nearby were made by the ``Enfield Cartridge Company`` and dated 1942. A derrick on the bow has a tangle of sweep wire around it. Twin 0.5 inch machine guns are mounted on the port side towards the stern. For years she was known to divers simply as ``the armed trawler``, but divers from Ruislip and Northwood BSAC found details on
the ship that enabled her to be named.
The principal aim of this ``special project`` is to develop an understanding of shipwrecks and how to carry out wreck research as a means of developing skills that could help the club in finding a ``new`` wreck. This project will hopefully add a new dimension to the clubs diving; in other words, diving with a purpose. As a practical starting point I think it would an interesting exercise to try and produce a drawing of the wreckage; something that does need a bit of skill and practice, but there are more and more
people who have done NAS training which teaches the skills, now we just have to put them in to practice!
Currently, there is very little information available about the Northcoates, and the above is all that I have been able to find. More information could possibly be found by contacting people like the Royal Navy museum in Portsmouth, the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, or elsewhere.
So if you’re interested, there are plenty of ways in which you can get involved, and even if you don’t find wreck research or survey diving interesting, the wreck is a great dive site, with huge numbers of fish,
including some massive congers, and plenty of good sized crabs and lobsters!
All feedback is welcome and observations on the wreck will all help build up a picture of the site in its current environment.
It’s also a great site for u/w photography!
What more could you want?

Website: Preview http://www.mvsac.org.uk by Thumbshots.org http://www.mvsac.org.uk
SAA No.101, a socially focused, safety aware, welcoming dive club based in and around Leatherhead, Surrey.

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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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