Scuba Santas

Scuba Diving Dressed As Santa Claus For Charity

- Sunday, 18th December 2011 - NDAC, Chepstow

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Scuba Santas 2010 Raffle Prize Winners

The Scuba Santas 2010 raffle prize draw has now taken place. We had a total of 24 prizes to give away from the following companies: aquapac, divesigns.com, Scimitar diving (Weymouth), and Blueotwo.

The winners are as follows:

£25 gift voucher from divesigns.com:

  • Rick Ayrton, Bristol of Clifton SAC

£50 holiday voucher from blueotwo:

  • Simon Rees, Bristol of Subaquaholics

Weekend’s diving for two with Scimitar diving, Weymouth:

  • Sarah Edney, Caerphilly

Waterproof mobile phone cases from Aquapac:

  • Jon Wilkinson , Frome of Frome BSAC 1639
  • David Drew , Warminster of Scuba Blue
  • Nige Thacker , Chippenham
  • Greg Parker , Bristol of Subaquaholics, Bristol
  • Tony B , Midsomer Norton of Norad Basc
  • mark piper , Salisbury of Euphoria diving
  • Eamonn Coffey , Dunstable of Chiltern Divers 1590
  • Robert Wareham , Bradford-on-avon
  • Helen Shaw , Chippenham
  • keith morris , Salisbury
  • Nora Holford , Reading of The Diving Club, Reading
  • Paul Minto , Thame of Oxford BSAC
  • Huw Rees , Neath
  • chris stevens , Oxford of Oxford BSAC
  • Chris Giles , Exwick of Exeter BSAC
  • Stuart Last , Bristol of AWSAC
  • Derek Davis , Tipton, West Midlands of Dudley Dolphin
  • Richard Ward , Reading of Reading Diving Club
  • Matt Head , Aldershot of University of Surrey SAC
  • Dick Allen , Bristol of AWSAC

Well done to all of the winners, I’ll be passing your details on to the various sponsors who will arrange to get your prize sent out (as appropriate). We look forward to seeing you all at Scuba Santas 2011!

Scuba Santas is a unique World record holding event held each year and organised by Lloyd Watkin and  members of the Yorkshire Divers diving club. The official website of scuba santas is http://www.scuba-santas.co.uk.  The 2011 event will be held at the National Diving and Activity Centre (NDAC), near Chepstow where we will hope to break our own world record, and raise funds for the RNLI.

Don’t forget to look us up on Twitter, facebook, youtube for more fun and information.

Just 1 week until Scuba Santas 2010…

Its just 1 week until Scuba Santas 2010 kicks off!

Things are looking very positive for a NEW WORLD RECORD as we have over 170 divers registered for the event (previous record 158). The weather is looking to take a turn for the colder towards the end of next week but hopefully this won’t have a great impact on the event (just remember to dress up extra warm!).

I’ve been informed that the guys at Vobster Quay are all set and prepared for the flood of Scuba Santas arriving at their doors on the 19th December, and our very helpful team from Trowbridge branch RNLI are getting ready for an excellent day.

I’ve been asked if there’s anything that divers can be doing to help the event in this last week? As far as the event is concerned everything is set, but there are many ways in which you can still help…

  1. Make sure all your equipment is working and suitable for cold water diving
  2. Ensure you’ve registered on http://event.scuba-santas.co.uk to help registration on the day
  3. Start nagging your friends to donate via http://www.justgiving.com/scubasantas2010 or download the sponsorship form
  4. Get your local dive centre or dive superstore involved by getting them to donate to the scuba santas raffle (they’ll get a warm fuzzy feeling and plenty of mention on the internet/diving community as thanks!)
  5. If you haven’t already done so ensure you contact Vobster Quay to book at space in the bottom car park
  6. When donating either online or via sponsorship forms leave your details so that you can be entered into the Scuba Santas raffle
  7. Familiarise yourself with the rules for the scuba santas world record

During the event? Whilst we have made as many plans as possible to keep things running smoothly help from participants makes things run much easier…

  1. Upon arrival go to the registration desk and get yourself signed in  - you’ll be able to collect your goody bag upon registration (priority is given to those who registered online)
  2. Please be patient, we have allot of vehicles and allot of divers trying to get to places!
  3. Plan your dive, if you’re happy for a longer dive ~45minutes for the record ensure you kit up early and get to the water for the start of the dive. Alternatively if you want a short a dive as possible leave room for divers to get to the water
  4. Please be efficient as possible in kitting up and entering/exiting the water
  5. Listen out for announcements and pay attention during the briefing
  6. Have as much fun as possible whilst at all times remaining safe

What about after the event? After what we hope to be the best dive of 2010 there’s plenty that still needs to be done…

  1. If you’ve taken photos of video please contact us and let us know where the photos are hosted so we can link to them. If you haven’t got anywhere to host online let us know and we’ll host them for you. Photos are usually requested from journalists for reports about the event so we ask if we can have permission to use them.
  2. If you’ve raised money using your own justgiving page, or donated directly to the RNLI please let us know and we’ll add your amount to our total
  3. Ensure you get all sponsorship forms to us by the 10th January 2011 (if you can’t get them to us by then please let us know)
  4. The diving prize draw will take place on the 5th January 2011 with winners being notified soon after. If you’ve donated and haven’t included your details anywhere let us know and you’ll be added to the list of entrants.

We’re really looking forward to the event, good luck with your fund-raising and see you next Sunday.

Merry Christmas, Lloyd.

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