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Many Clydebank Sub Aqua Club members are working to gain more skills and experience as divers. Their achievements will be posted here. Congratulations and Safe diving!!
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Patryk Pieknik has completed his BSAC Sports Diver qualification. Congratulations!!
Big congratulations to Patryk on completing the BSAC Sports Diver course!
He’s not just a good diver… he also makes a pretty decent assistant pizza chef
Patryk was also a member of the Group which recently enjoyed a weekend diving in the Sound of Mull [please see "Dive Trips" page]
September 2026
Congratulations to Harry McGinley on completing his BSAC Sports Diver qualification
As demonstrated when he won the Tam Sneddon Trophy, Harry is currently one of the keenest divers in the club, regularly taking part in almost every dive trip going. His enthusiasm for diving has also seen him become increasingly involved in looking at where we can go next.
Harry has shown particular interest in planning trips to new and interesting locations that the club hasn’t visited before, including scouting potential slipways for launching RIBs and looking at the practical logistics involved in organising these trips.
Although he might not realise it yet, Harry is already building the skills, experience and knowledge needed to become a very capable and well-rounded Dive Leader.
With his enthusiasm for diving showing no signs of slowing down, we’re looking forward to seeing what he gets up to next — and, more importantly, where he takes us! 🤿🗺️🚤
Don Milesh
Chartwork and Position Fixing Skills Development Course
August 2026
While the club was diving around the Summer Isles, our Club Diving Officer, James Huke, managed to add another qualification to his collection.
Congratulations to James on successfully completing the BSAC Chartwork and Position Fixing Skills Development Course (SDC). As our Club DO and an Advanced Instructor, James is a great example of how learning never really stops in diving. There are always new skills to develop, new qualifications to work towards, and new challenges to take on.
The course develops practical skills in using charts, planning routes and navigating on the water — all valuable tools for expanding the range of dive sites the club can safely explore.
And, of course, the beautiful sun hat and laminated local nautical charts are not included in the course pack, but can presumably be purchased separately.
Well done, James! We’re looking forward to seeing where his newly acquired navigation skills take us on our next Scottish adventure — preferably somewhere the club has never been before!
Text:Don Milesh
Congratulations to David Richford who is now a BSAC Boat Handling Instructor. The weekend BHI Course was recently organised by the BSAC's Bob Elliot in Weymouth on the south coast of England. I think David has earned another award for driving all the way down to the south coast to attend the Course.
Our winter influx of new members is now beginning to bear fruit with another diving qualification. Congratulations to Sue Marsden on becoming a BSAC Ocean Diver. Onwards and upwards Sue!!
Congratulations to Caitlyn McKechnie, who has recently completed her BSAC Ocean Diver award. Caitlyn joined Clydebank Sub Aqua Club in April 2025 and is one of the younger members of the Club, so, well done Caitlyn! I suspect that her dad, Stuart, also a Clydebank Diver, will be digging in to his pockets to buy more diving equipment.
June 2026
A busy weekend on 2nd & 3rd May for a number of members of Clydebank Sub Aqua Club. Gordon Kirkcaldy was completing some "Dive Leader" training with guidance from David Richford, up at Ardgarten Ali's Reef (Conger alley), whilst James, Don and our other David were conducting a Twin Set Course at Finnart. Also along on Sunday were Shona, Robert and Helena to practice deploying a Delayed Surface Marker Buoy". Everyone is smiling, so perhaps their Dry suits were dry!!!
It looks like too much relaxation and not enough Dive Leading (above)
Clydebank Sub Aqua Club Diving Officer James Huke, recently took part in a weekend event organised by "Ghost Fishing UK" in association with "Wreckspeditions", to retrieve lost fishing gear in the Dunoon and Loch Fyne areas.
James is 2nd from the right
James in the orange Dry suit
More pictures and a brief story on our Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.clydebanksac.co.uk/permalink/26659511757035030/
David Richford (Left) attended a very useful BSAC Boat Handling Instructor Course in early March. He had a long journey down to Weymouth, on the south coast of England. David said that he found the Course most useful and instructive. Also the weather was a little warmer than here on the west of Scotland.