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James Cook University Dive Club

Dive Club (English)

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Company description The JCU Dive Club was established over 20 years ago and is now one of the largest clubs at James Cook University, with more than 200 members. The club became incorporated in 1999, allowing for greater flexibility, independence, and safety for it`s members.
We have our own clubhouse located next to the university swimming pool where social events are often held.
Safety is a priority in the Dive Club, and the club and its member`s are under the safety of the international Diver`s Alert Network (DAN) organisation.
The Dive Club is fully self-sufficient; we have two compressors, a boat, tanks, weight belts, BCD`s, regulators, wetsuits, masks, snorkels, and fins. These are provided on trips, or can be hired out on a personal basis (excluding the boat and compressors).
The Club is run by a minimum of eight executive members, voted in by our members at the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Typically, the executive consists of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, safety officer, boat officer, social officer, and equipment officer. This will vary each year, depending on each executive`s strengths and weaknesses.
James Cook University is situated adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef National Park, one of the natural wonders of the world. It is home to an extremely diverse array of marine life, from tiny nudibranchs to large pelagics such as humpback whales. Colourful and vibrant coral reefs are located close to our shores.
The JCU Dive Club aims to provide a social fun environment in which to SCUBA dive with friends, or learn to dive with one of our PADI certified instructors. The weather in Townsville is perfect for diving with over 300 hundred days of sunshine a year, and there are many world famous dive-sites just off our shores.
The Dive Club offers PADI courses from Open Water up to Dive Master level, and there are plenty of opportunities to dive the Great Barrier Reef with fortnightly Yongala Wreck liveabords, lecture recess dive camps to the Whitsundays and Pelorus Island, as well as diving off Magnetic Island which lies 15 minutes from Townsville.
Although our primary emphasis is on SCUBA diving, we have close links with the numerous dive operators in the Townsville Region, who commonly give discounts to members of the JCU Dive Club, and can offer more specialised courses such as NITROX and TRIMIX diving. Please email us for more information on the availability of these courses.
As well as providing numerous opportunities for diving, the Dive Club also allows divers to meet like-minded people from all over the world who have come to JCU to study. We are a particularly social club, with pub crawls, parties, bar-b-ques, an annual ball and camping trips throughout the academic year.
The JCU Dive Club is a great way to make new friends, learn to dive, and help explore the Great Barrier Reef.
For more information on any of the topics outlined above, please email us. We are enthusiatic about diving, and we want you to join us...
We offer everything from day trips to local reefs to week long liveabords on the Great Barrier Reef, weekend trips to the famous SS Yongala wreck, and dive camps in the isolated Whitsunday island group.
Cheap dive trips, gear hire, discounts with local dive operators, and special invites to our social events.
The Club offers courses from PADI Advanced up to PADI Instructor courses*
We encourage new members who are keen to promote diving to seek positions in the executive.
Location description: Some words of Rob Newman`s story about Hook Island Dive Camp:
The water was as usual like turquoise glass - clear and warm, with a huge variety of hard and soft corals, fish and anemones. On our first dive to the right side of the cove we descended to 20m and then swam slowly back towards the beach, ascending as we did so.
Just before descending, something caught my eye and I excitedly pointed out a Hawksbill turtle who was hanging out in the shallows. A good omen for the dive....
As soon as we descended we found three bright orange and white nudibranchs on some hard coral, which was quickly followed by huge Coral Trout, a massive Barramundi Cod and a school of friendly Batfish that followed us for the rest of the dive.
The coral cover was the best I have seen it in two years, with lots of new anemones with their resident anemone-fish. Moving back towards the shore we saw a few corals with their polyps out, which I have never seen during the day before.
The evening meals for the week were fantastic, with groups taking it in turns cooking and washing up, meaning there was plenty of time for backgammon, 500, chess, and a bizarre card game that I was introduced to called ``Spoons``. The latter game is very loud and incredibly funny.
The trip was definitely made more enjoyable by the addition of Ashley`s new boat, which he used to take divers and snorkellers to the outer reef and different bays during the week.
I was lucky enough to be taken to Barbell Island to the south of Hook where we did a drift dive, to Manta Ray Bay for a free dive, and a day at Bait Reef (lots of white-tipped Reef Sharks, Blue Spotted Rays, and Anemones). Everybody on the camp got at least one trip out on the Big Chop - and our thanks again to Ashley for bringing the boat with him (although I am not sure how happy some guests at the Hamilton Resort were!)
For the first time in my experience on Hook the weather was perfect - it only rained for 30 minutes during the whole week, of which I managed to be underwater for. The sun shone for the rest of the time, making it perfect for hanging out on the beach between dives soaking up the peace and solitude (occassionally interupted by happy divers either heading into, or coming out of, the water.
Thanks to everyone for making this another successful Hook Dive Camp - it was a combination of great people, great diving, fantastic cooking, and crazy Norwegians with tripods (DA DA DAAAA!!!). Looking forward to seeing you all there again next lecture recess.

Website: Preview http://www.jcu.edu.au/soc/dive/hook01.html by Thumbshots.org http://www.jcu.edu.au/soc/dive/hook01.html
SCUBA courses, reef trips, social events, PADI and DAN affiliated

Contact information:
Street Address:
c/o student union
james cook uni
Townsville
Queensland
Australia
4811
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 10 Brisbain, Vladivostok, Sidney, Canberra
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