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Hoofers SCUBA Club

Dive Club (English)

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Company description Hoofers SCUBA Club is an organization of UW-Madison students, staff, and Union members who share a common interest in diving and learning about the underwater world. Our members benefit from high quality classes, regular club dive trips, low cost equipment rentals, and the opportunity to meet new friends and dive buddies at our regular socials.
Hoofer SCUBA Club offers classes for members at all experience levels from the curious beginner to the seaweed-crusted expert. Our Open Water Certification course is designed to help new divers acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills needed by every diver. This class begins with classroom instruction and practice sessions in an indoor swimming pool, and culminates in an open water dive. Upon successful completion of this class, participants receive a lifetime PADI certification which is recognized at dive shops and locations around the world! After becoming certified, divers wishing to continue their education are encouraged to take an Advanced Open Water class where they will extend their training and learn exciting specialties including night diving, search-and-recovery techniques, underwater navigation, and deep diving. Our Rescue Diver class is for experienced, responsible divers who want to be able to handle emergencies both in and out of the water. Finally, the Divemaster program for advanced divers strengthens skills from previous classes to a level where participants can assist instructors with teaching new students. All classes are taught by Gaye-Lynn Clyde, a professional SCUBA instructor with over 10 years of experience. Click here or call (608)-262-1630 for upcoming class times or more information!
Over the past few years, we`ve been teaching people how to dive. But for the student population, diving can be a cost prohibitive sport. We rent tanks, weights, BC`s and wetsuits for: $5/day and $6/airfill, rentals for the winter trip is also $5/day (~$35 for the week depending on trip length). These rentals can only be used on Hoofer SCUBA club outings.
SCUBA Club socials are held every Thursday at the Memorial Union in the Rathskeller or on the Terrace (weather permitting) from 8:00pm until the last person goes home. Look for the dive flag and pull up a chair! During the social members have a chance to meet new dive buddies, check out equipment, catch up on club news, or just enjoy the sunset. The interesting company and beautiful setting make the socials one of our most popular events, where members plan dives, trade stories, listen to live bands, and sample local brews. This is a great opportunity to meet the most active members of the club and get involved in planning club events. Just before the beginning of every Open Water class we hold a kickoff social to welcome new members into the club and to give those thinking about joining a chance to ask questions and sign up for classes. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the SCUBA club or to meet the club officers, members, and people taking the classes. Check with the Hoofer`s office for dates.
Hoofers SCUBA Club is open to any UW-Madison student, staff, or Wisconsin Union Member who is interested in diving. Stop by the Hoofers Office in the basement of the Memorial Union and ask for a membership form. An annual membership costs $35 and entitles you to all of the club benefits including equipment rental, classes, club dives, trips, and socials. A membership purchased on or after September 1 costs $25. Faculty and staff pay an additional 25% surcharge on memberships. All Hoofers SCUBA memberships are valid until the following January Hoofer Kickoff.
Hoofers SCUBA offers a Social Email Service.
Once you`re subscribed to the social list, you can receive news on upcoming dives and other events.
Location description: Members can participate in any of the many organized dives held by the SCUBA Club year round. These dives range from tours of local lakes to specialty dives to tropical tours! Check our calendar for the latest news on upcoming events. We regularly dive local lakes to learn about and help the local underwater world. Come along and find the sunken cars or visit the underwater research station in Lake Mendota, explore the weed beds of Devil`s Lake, or help us collect trash from the bottom of Lake Waubesa! These dives make for a great weekend adventure for divers at all skill levels. For our more adventuresome divers we have a variety of specialty dives throughout the year. Cruising along the bottom of Devil`s Lake during a night dive with underwater flashlights is an exciting way to run into the creatures that stay hidden during daylight hours. In the depths of winter our die-hard ice divers chop holes in Lake Mendota and enter a strange world where bubbles run along the icy ceiling like liquid mercury. If ice diving sounds a bit too cold, head south with us for our annual tropical dive! In previous years we have camped out at Cozumel, lived aboard sailboats in the Bahamas, dove in Hawaii, and lived aboard Nekton Pilot cruise ships in Belize, all the while soaking up sun and diving incredible tropical reefs. Come along for a trip you won`t forget!
Memorial Union Terrace - Hoofer`s SCUBA home location. Not much of a dive, but plenty to pick up off the bottom from all the drunks, sailors, and general Union visitors. Find a beer pitcher - collect $1. Numerous other objects from cell phones to wallets line the bottom. Great dive if you`re into trash and treasure.
Watch out for motor boats, sailing boats, canoes, windsurfers, and kayaks. This place is heavily traversed by all.
Monona Terrace Convention Center: Parking can be problematic. Some people recommend driving into the first part of the Terrace driveway, unload your equipment and then park. Others suggest parking at the boat launch lot to the east of the Terrace, suit up, and then walk over to the dive site.
This dive is best during the early spring or late fall. Swimming under the support sturctures of the Terrace you`re bound to see abandoned contsruction equipment like hammers, tape measures, and boots. Huge boulders are under the site making it very favorable for large walley. A wide variety of fish are VERY numerous in this area.
Cove Condos: Accesible via boat only. Located 3300 feet from parking lot and small beach in Shorewood Hills at a bearing of 322 degrees. Good luck with the surface swim!
This location is probably one of the premier and undisturbed sites on all of lake mendota. On a map of the lake it appears as a submerged island of rocks 20-30 feet below the water`s surface. Surrounding the ``island`s`` banks are drop-offs into the lake that continue down to 40 to 60 feet, making it an EXCELLENT Wisconsin wall dive. Many buffalhead, walley, panfish and large rocks here.

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Club for UW-Madison students, staff, and Union members offers classes, trips and social events.

Contact information:

Phone: (608) 262-1630
Street Address:
800 Langdon St.
Madison
Wisconsin
United States
53706
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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