http://www.bsac.com/page.asp?section=1024&sectionTitle=Safety%20Talk%20This%20Month

Cheers

Andy McKay

Staying Alive!

Few people can now have missed the recent television adverts featuring actor Vinnie Jones promoting chest compression-only resuscitation. Popular culture does seem to allow and accept the incongruous nature of using apparent gangland violence as the platform for such a promotion but it does appear to be getting the message across!

Perhaps because the promotion is sponsored by the British Heart Foundation it is believed by some that the message is that this advert means that resuscitation practice and guidance has somehow changed. It has NOT.

The adverts are targeted at members of the public with no resuscitation training at all. It was developed because untrained members of the public, influenced perhaps by other media programmes like Casualty and ER, have attempted CPR when faced with a casualty and been ineffective at giving Rescue Breaths and reduced the effectiveness of chest compressions.

The message for anyone trained in CPR is that you should continue to follow your training should the need arise.

Andy Procter

NDC Rescue Skills Chief Examiner

http://www.uwpmag.com/

It’s free to download as a PDF, but you do have to register first.

Enjoy

Andy

Obviously we will need to recoup the costs of running the Club equipment so the proposal includes an additional cost of £15 a day for the first 6 days of diving from our club boats (making a total of £25 per day) after that on the 7th dive day the cost reverts to the current £10 a day. For the active divers in the Club this has the advantage of spreading the costs over the first few dive trips.

This change was voted in for a trial period of one year until the 2012 AGM when members will again decide on whether to continue with this membership fee. This decision will clearly be heavily influenced by the income, which in turn will depend on our success in encouraging new members.

I’m sure you will agree with me this change presents a major change in our approach to membership fees and I’m optimistic will encourage a growth in the number of Club members.

* The BSAC subscription is outside the control of the Club and is the same for all members who are in BSAC clubs across the UK. From next March this will be £54 a year.

Martin Rawson

Chairman

Belper Sub-Aqua Club

http://digital.divemagazine.co.uk

The above link is for the PC version but if you register you can get versions for most other digital devices.

After skipping through seems slightly better then the printed version we all got to know and love <grin>

Enjoy

Andy

http://library.bsac.com/etalk/etalk1111.html

I’ve booked our usual room at the Greyhound and have arranged for sandwiches and other nibbles for the event. Non members are welcome, though of course will be not eligible to vote. If any members want to stand for election to one of the committee positions then please either let Steve Price and myself know prior to the start of the meeting or be prepared to stand when we come to elect the committee on the night.

I’ll send out the agenda in the next few days. This will include items requiring a vote on the night.

see you there

Martin R

http://www.uwpmag.com

Cheers

Andy

http://www.xray-mag.com/pdfs/xray45/X-Ray45_locked.pdf

Cheers

Andy