THE COMMITEE
JOHN ADDISON
President
Founder Member, Diving 30 years. Number of dives: (Who's counting?)
Qualifications: Advanced Diver. Best Dive: The Falls of Lora, Scotland Worst dive: Stoney Cove in February (Freezing cold in a wetsuit.) Happy days!
DAVE WHITE
Chair
Experienced dive leader and diver coxswai (and a great chef!)
STEVE HOPPER
Diving Officer
Diving:Can't remember that long ago! Number of dives: Not enough! Qualification: Advanced Diver. Favourite dive sites: The Red Sea and Maldives. Best UK dive: Maen Melt, Porth Ysgaden and Plymouth.
DAVE GEORGE
Equipment Officer
Member of the Branch for 30 years. Qualifications: Advanced Diver, Advanced Instructor, Ice Diver, Diver Coxswain. I enjoy all kinds of diving and look forward to exploring new dive sites as well as old favourites.
ANDY SHENSTONE
Treasurer
Diving over 10 years. Number of dives: 500+ Qualification: Advanced Diver, Full Face Mask, Open Water Instructor and Diver Coxswain. I enjoy all types of diving with recent highlights being Norway, the Outer Hebrides, The Scillies, The Azores and Kenya.
KAREN GILLER
Welfare and Membership
I Joined the club in September 2017 after a try dive on holiday and I’ve never looked back. Currently I’m a qualified Sports Diver having done 40 dives and looking forward to continue to develop my skills with the club. Best dive site was wreck diving in Plymouth where I encountered an angler fish.
STELLA CHAPMAN
Honoury Secretary
Qualifications: Dive Leader and Open Water Instructor. I have been diving for 20 years and have loved just about every minute I have spent underwater from my Try Dive to the four dives I did in Mexico in January this year.Favourite dive: With the seals off the Farne Islands. Favourite sites: Eyemouth and Plymouth.
MARK SANDBACH
General Member
Member of the Branch for over 25 years. Number of dives 600+. Qualifications:Dive Leader and Diver Coxswain. Favourite Dive Sites: Loch Fyne and Rhoscolyn.
JANE HOPPER
Social Secretary
Non-diving member of the club for a number of years who has always been the first to assist with helping at soclal occasions and has now taken it on as a Committee Member.