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 -

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Contact - do@waldendiver.net

Navigation Training

Training 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