Our committee members
The committee

Chairman
Graeme Howard - Advanced Diver & Advanced Instructor
Years Diving - 12
Years with SWDC - 7
Best Dive - Red Sea for colour and abundance of life, Scapa and East Coast UK for wrecks
Muppet Moment - getting the tides slightly wrong trying to get out of Littlehampton resulting in 6 people jumping out of the boat to give it a little lift (should have spotted the fisherman with water up to his ankles!)
Something You May Not Know - I took a year out of the rat race in 2002 and spent 6 months crewing a yacht in the British Virgin Islands and 3 months travelling around Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina (with Helen)
Contact - chairman@waldendiver.net

Treasurer
Chris Evans - BSAC Advanced Diver, TDI Trimix, PADI Assistant Instructor
Years Diving -Learnt back in the late 70's and reached BSAC 2nd class diver. Family commitments then took me away from diving until 2001 when I returned to the depths!!
Years with SWDC - 3
Best Dive - Chuuk Lagoon - (great wrecks, warm water but a ** long way to get there!!), Gozo - Cathedral Cave, Blue Hole ......., HMS Sidon (Lyme Regis), any dive around Skomer, Pembrokshire .... but I've never dived The Lucy!, Lochaline - The Rondo.
Muppet Moment - About to roll of RIB when it was pointed out I didn't have any fins on (and this was last year!!!)
Something You May Not Know - I own 5 guitars
Contact - treasurer@waldendiver.net

Diving Officer
Mark Bushell
Years Diving -
Years with SWDC -
Best Dive -
Muppet Moment -
Something You May Not Know -
Contact - do@waldendiver.net
Navigation TrainingTraining Officer
Lee Metters - Sports Diver
Years Diving - 7
Years with SWDC - 7
Best Dive - Farnes in great vis amongst thousands of sand eels.
Muppet Moment - Losing buddy on night dive, surfacing, apologising to stranger on surface and going back to look for buddy. (Buddy was stanger on surface!)
Something You May Not Know -
Contact - training@waldendiver.net
Secretary
Helen Gilliar - Sports Diver and Assistant Instructor
Years Diving - 8
Years with SWDC - 8
Best Dive - have to say Hornsea for some of my best dives - The Cadmus (shell case supermarket!) is great. Enjoyed a brilliant night dive (my only one!) on the Thistlegorm in the Red Sea
Muppet Moment - hanging onto a button lift and being dragged up a mountain because I was determined not to let go.....
Something You May Not Know - I can be really nasty sometimes. When I was young, I used to throw the ball into next doors garden and then blame my brother (who is 5 years older) so that Dad would shout at him for a change! [Has anybody noticed this nasty streak?)
Contact - secretary@waldendiver.net

Membership Secretary
Duncan Potter - Sports Diver & Assistant Club Instructor
Years diving - 14
Years with SWDC - 7
Best dives - St. Abbs, Farnes & Hornsea in the Uk. The Red Sea's four Abu Nuhas wrecks & the Brothers Islands, Cyprus' Zenobia - so far!
Greatest muppet moment - getting tangled in SMB line diving the Scylla.
Something you didn't know - made a living out of breaking, schooling & nutty horses after leaving school, which often meant hitting the ground a little hard & fairly
often
Contact - membership@waldendiver.net
Social Secretary
Deb Stanton
Years Diving - 17
Years with SWDC - 17
Best Dive -
Muppet Moment -
Something You May Not Know -
Contact - social@waldendiver.net

Equipment Officer
Simon Maddox - Sports Diver (nearly DL!)
Years Diving - 8
Years with SWDC - 8
Best Dive - St Dunstan and Farnes in the UK - or anywhere in the Red Sea
Muppet Moment - Going in without a weight belt and searching for naturally formed substitutes
Something You May Not Know - Simon is a certified dolphin trainer - [although we haven't seen the certificate yet]
Contact - equipment@waldendiver.net
Equipment Officer
David Dunn - Sports Diver [almost]
Years Diving - 1
Years with SWDC - 1
Best Dive - St Abbs
Muppet Moment - It's coming
Something You May Not Know - David has a lovely wife who packs him a pack lunch that would last a week whenever he goes away. Ahhh.
Contact - equipment@waldendiver.net

Lifetime Honorary Consultant Equipment Officer
Ian Webber
Minutes of the AGM held in November 2009.
AGM_091103.doc
Microsoft Word document [54.5 KB]

