The Craven Water Rats
Sub-Aqua Club

SAA Branch No. 560

CHAIRPERSONS INTRODUCTION

Heather Eyre Welcomes you to the Craven Water-Rats Sub-Aqua Club Home Page

The Diving Club SAA 560: was originally formed in 1987 and it was then called  WYNEL Sub-Aqua Club and was known throughout the SAA for the high quality of training and safety provided. Late last year (1999) after many happy years diving and training, the last of the founder members decided that it was time to take a well-earned rest from the dedication and commitment needed to run an active dive club. Now taking a back seat as an honouree member. The club decided it was time to update its image with a name change, a new logo, a new venue -www.tarnhouse.co.uk - and lots of new ideas combined with tried and tested training methods to make the sport of Scuba as safe and enjoyable as possible,  also trying to incorporate a full social calendar.

WYNEL was re-born into Craven Water-Rats Sub-Aqua Club in January 2000. The club is still small but we now aim to continue with our hard earned reputation as an excellent cost effective  "training  and  diving club".  Within the first few months of reorganising the club's structure we completed a 12 week training course for 6 new divers, managed a weekend trip to Loch Fyne and planned trips for days in St.Abbs/Eyemouth, a weekend trip in September to the Fame Islands, and towards the end of the year a weekend trip to Oban, as well as the usual outings to Capernwray Quarry, Dostill , Devils Bridge, Hodge Close  and Wast Water. We are also planning club trips to the Mediterranean and the Red Sea in the future.
Safe Diving...
Hev’s

Training & Meetings

Our club meetings take on various formats and occur at various locations. In general we meet on Sunday nights for pool training sessions and lectures with the new recruits. On training nights we arrive at the pool about 5.30pm and finish the session about 6.30pm. When the training is over we retire to the pub!

CLUB VENUES
CLUB MEETINGS & LECTURES:	We meet at 7.30pm on Sunday evenings at the Tarn House Country Inn, the owner of venue is also a keen diver with many years experience.
PRACTICAL TRAINING SESSIONS:	The club utilises the facilities of the West Craven Swimming Baths at Barnoldswick, Lancashire along with various inland dive sites such as Capernwray Quarry.

WEBSITE BACKGROUND

This site, first published to the web in July 2000, is still very much in its infancy. It came about because of two brothers, Tim & Dave Hasney. The first is the Diving Officer of The Craven Water Rats Sub-Aqua club and the latter, who has always had an interest in diving but only recently qualified (with an organisation other than the SAA), spends hours in front of a PC, both as part of his work and for pleasure, a bit of an 'anorak' really!

Since taking a course as part of an Open University Information Technology MSc degree a few years ago, Dave developed an interest in web page building. After Tim saw his brother's personal website he asked him if he would be prepared to build something for the Water Rats and this is it. After nearly forty years of only really having the fact they are brothers in common, Tim & Dave now have both Diving and Computers, it will seam strange they have something to talk about after all this time!

Dave does not profess to be any sort of HTML expert however, apart from this site, Dave also maintains his own personal website, Castle Hooch and The Dolphin Scuba Team site for a dive operator in Turkey! We hope you enjoy what you find here and if nothing else, you agree that giving the Craven Water Rats an Internet presence has been a worthwhile venture...