Membership Renewal - Important infomation

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Hello,

You should have either received your membership renewal pack, or will be receiving one in the next week. If you DO NOT receive one by 20^th March, please let me know.

Please can you check that your details are correct on the BSAC renewal form and sign and date it. There are a number of people who have been sent a BSAC registration form rather than a renewal form. Could you fill this in and send it back to me.

The medical form will also need to be completed. Could you make sure that either a or b is circled at the bottom of the form.

Can you make sure that you have joined/renewed before you go on any trips or courses, especially if you are going on the training trip in April. If you have not renewed, then you won’t be covered by BSAC insurance, if anything goes wrong. You also need have paid your membership in order to get access to Hellfins facilities in Shell.

While you are renewing your membership, could you please log onto our new look website and check that your profile is correct. Mike has sent out a number of “How to guides” for the new website, which would give you information about log-on and changing profiles.

If you have any queries, please get in touch.

Maria

Hellfins trips

All,

With the move to the new website, we've lost a few details of the trips that were on the calendar. If you had something in the diary, it might no longer be there and so people won't know it's happening!

It's easy enough to add your trip to the Calendar - go to Diving then Planned Trips on the new website. If you have any problems, then drop me an email and I'll do my best to help out.

Also, we could always do with having some more trips in the calendar. If you'd like to organise something, then please get in touch.

Janos

PS - I'd also like to plug a couple of the trips I'm organising with spaces - Weymouth on 31st of July (2 days) and Plymouth on 28th August (3 days). Both trips were incredibley popular last year and we had a great time. You will need to be a Sports Diver or similar to sign on the trips, and do let me know if you're a Dive Leader looking for DP1 or DP2.

Hellfins New Site How To Guide - Calendar Items

Welcome to the final new hellfins site How To Guide.  I've decided to make this the last how to guide and leave you to find the rest of the functionality hidden in the site. This guide focuses on events and the calendar.

KEY TASK FOR EVERYONE

Unfortunately there was no way (other than me retyping them all) of transferring the events from the old hellfins site to the new one.  Therefore all trip organisers need to recreate any events that they had submitted to the old site.  This needs to be done by the trip organiser so that the correct contact details are attached to each item.

What is an event

Events are items that will be displayed on the calendar and include dive trips, social events and club meetings.
Any events happening within the club should be added to the calendar so that club members can see whats going on and potential members can see that we are an active club.

How do you create an event

To create an event follow the following steps:

1. To even see the link to create an event you need to sign in.
2. Then use any of the create event links (eg. "Diving/Planned diving/Create Event").
3. Enter a subject for your event (eg. Diving the Kyarra in Swanage)
4. Select the category for your event.  Please choose carefully as the category you pick affects who gets asked to approve the event.
5. In the activity box enter as much information about the event as you have available.
6. Enter the location of the event (eg Duke of Sussex Pub or Swanage)
7. Enter some contact details.  Please be aware that this will be available to all visitors to the site therefore please choose carefully.  You can add e-mail addresses into this box without having to worry about spam (they're displayed in a special way so that they can't be picked up by spam bots).
8. Select the time and date that your event occurs at and any repeat.  If you create a multi day event please make sure to tick the yes box that appears for do you want this event to occur on all days of the event.
9. If you want to create a reoccuring event then you can set these details at the very bottom.
10. Once you've filled everything out hit save and the event will be sent to the appropriate person for approval and then will be displayed on the calendar.

Booking Martha

If you create an event in the Martha Bookings category then this will be seen by the boat officers.  The boat officers will treat this as a request to book Martha for that time period.  If you wish to create an event that is for a diving trip on another RIB then it should just go in the Diving Events category. 


Thankyou for reading these how to guides.  Please keep these for future reference as they may resolve a lot of the potential problems people might find whilst trying to use the site.

Mike
Hellfins Webmaster

Spaces on my Shetland trip - July 2010

Hi all,

Matt Metcalf is having too much fun out in Dahab and so is unlikely to be able to make my Shetland trip. This is going to be a fantastic trip, with a huge variety of diving. There are some excellent scenic sites (with seals and the occasional whale) and some very nice wrecks. Being relatively undived they are in great condition. There’s also the wreck of the Oceanic (sistership to the Titanic and Brittanic) which lies in just 12m.

The trip will be from 3rd to 11th of July.

And because of their location the viz is superb. I’m expecting double figures easily.

 If you’re interested, then please drop me an email (Janos@Hellfins.com) or nobble me down the pub.

 Cheers,

   Janos

Win a Dive Show ticket!

Dear all,

The kind people at LIDS have kindly offered the club a pair of tickets absolutely free. The Dive Shows are a great opportunity to see a wide range of shops and stalls, look at holiday ideas, and talk to other divers. There are many interesting talks by well-known divers, and BSAC will also have a large presence. Top BSAC wallah (and Hellfins member) Phil Clifton is also attending.

To be in with a chance of winning a ticket, all you have to do is guess Phil’s weight (in kg please).

The closest two entries will win a ticket.

More info can be found on www.diveshows.co.uk
 

Thanks,

            Janos

Spaces on my Shetland trip

Hi all,

Matt Metcalf is having too much fun out in Dahab and so is unlikely to be able to make my Shetland trip. This is going to be a fantastic trip, with a huge variety of diving. There are some excellent scenic sites (with seals and the occasional whale) and some very nice wrecks. Being relatively undived they are in great condition. There’s also the wreck of the Oceanic (sistership to the Titanic and Brittanic) which lies in just 12m.

The trip will be from 3rd to 11th of July.

And because of their location the viz is superb. I’m expecting double figures easily.

If you’re interested, then please drop me an email (Janos@Hellfins.com) or nobble me down the pub.

Cheers,

   Janos

Diving trip - Littlehampton 15/16th May

Search for a new pool - we need your help!

For anyone that isn't already aware, Hellfins are almost certainly going to lose the use of the Shell Centre pool in 2011. Because ideally we don't want to be dive club without a pool, a small group of us has been tasked with investigating a number of different options so we can all then decide what we want to do.

The ideal solution has to be to find another pool in central london, hopefully as close to waterloo as possible. Realistically we're going to have to widen the search a bit as there aren't exactly a lot of swimming pools within a stones throw of where we are now. Initially we've decided to try and find as many pools as possible within zone 1 (this is really for ease of defining a search area so is more of a guide than anything else). We may have to widen/shift the search area depending on what we find, but we'll cross that bridge if we come to it.

When we've got this initial list we're going to assess (hopefully through a quick and easy process) each pool based on a number of criteria: size, availability, cost, storage, etc. the list goes on, but you get the idea. From this we'll hopefully identify some pools that we can investigate in more detail.

It's fairly easy to track down pools in leisure centres and the like, but there are other types of pool that are not quite so easy to find. The pool at guy's hospital, for example, has already been mentioned. I for one would not have known it existed unless i'd been told about it.

It's the forming of this list where we need some help from the club's members. So if you know of a pool within zone 1 then we're asking you to tell us about it. Just drop me an email.

It doesn't matter whether you think a pool may be too small, or too expensive, or in the wrong area. If you know of a pool hidden away somewhere, we want to hear about it. The more info you have about a particular pool the better, as it will mean less work for us, so any details you know we'd like to hear about those too.

Once we've got a decent starting list, hopefully over the next couple of weeks, we'll start to prune it down to size and see what we end up with.

Hope that all makes sense.

Matt w
for the new pool team
newpoolteam@hellfins.com

Regional Dive Planning & Marshalling courses

Dear all,

I just wanted to draw the attention of all those working towards their Dive Leader – or cross overs at higher levels new to BSAC who are interested in running trips– to the regional Dive Planning and Marshalling skill development courses.

This is a really great course which teaches you how to practically marshal a dive trip.

It is a two day course that also includes a day's diving, and a good opportunity to meet other non-Hellfins members.

The course also signs off lessons 8,12 and DP1 of your dive leader qualification.

Southern region are running a course on the 5th June this year that might be of interest to some of you: http://southern.bsac.org/SDCPOE.asp

Details of the other regional courses running this year can be found: http://www.bsac.com/page.asp?section=1675§ionTitle=Dive+Planning+and+Management

To take the course, you need to be a Sports Diver or above, and have done 20 dives post your SD sign-off.

Cheers

Emily

Social Event - The Staffordshire Hoard, British Museum

You might have heard in the news at the end of last year how an amateur metal detectorist discovered a huge hoard of Saxon gold in a field in Staffordshire.  It is on display at the British Museum until 17 April.

I am planning on going to see it and wondered if anyone else would like to come?  If so, I'll see you on the Museum steps at 1pm on Saturday 13th March.

I dare say we could go for a few drinks after too, and be in time to watch England play Scotland in the 6 nations at 5pm.

Drop me an email if you would like to come along
Matt