Hi everyone, our first diving with the club this year 2012 will start in The Hook Co. Wexford, for the St Patrick’s Bank Holiday week-end.

Pirate’s Day Details as follows

1.     Transfer to Ireland’s Eye  1pm-3pm. Last boat will leave at 3pm.

2.     Food 2pm onwards

3.     Games and things 3-5pm

4.     Boats back 5pm onwards

Make sure you are book in with a club member

Portmarnock Sub Aqua Club (PSAC) was founded in 1983 with the objective of bringing the sport of Scuba Diving to North County Dublin.  Since its foundation it has grown to a 50+ member club with an age profile which ranges from late teens to 60s and has an even male/female split.  We even hold a World Record!

The club is affiliated to the Irish Underwater Council (Comhairle Fó-Thoinn or CFT) which was founded in 1963 and is the co-ordinating body for underwater diving clubs in Ireland.  CFT is the representative body for Ireland in the World Underwater Federation (Confédération Mondiale des Activitiés Subaquatiques or CMAS).

The club is based at the Portmarnock Sports and Leisure Centre (PSLC) and maintains a boat house adjacent to the Centre housing all club equipment - Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBs), inflatables, compressors (Nitrox), trailers etc.  Please click here for directions to the Centre.

Have a look at the new section on Divesites…..

Some great information….all in one place…….

more to come in time

There was great viz last week at Irelands eye and heaps of lobsters. Anyone interested in this weeks dive, its ready to go at 7pm on Wednesday at Malahide. Names to Fiona

The next diving away is the Club week which is happening from Saturday 30th July until Saturday 6th August in the same place as last year Coppermines Villas Allihies, West Cork (first week Aug)  . Anyone planning on going please contact Michael Whelan, so he can make sure that you have a bed…..

I hope you all had a Great Bank Holiday weekend, the diving in Killery was Grand.The weather was not so kind to us as last year, but still it did not rain on us or very little at least.A big thanks to John B for being DO and to Gary, John G and Nina for towing and to everyone else that helped with getting boats in and out of the water, compressors and all the other bits that needed to be done to make sure we got out diving.Well done to Fintan on his first open water divesThe next diving away is the Club week which is happening fromSaturday 30th July until Saturday 6th Augustin the same place as last year Coppermines Villas Allihies, West Cork (first week Aug)

For those of you who are looking at the site, this is a work in progress to update it. and it should be finished by the end of July…….and we hope you will all like it and use it.

The 2010 AGM took place in the Portmarnock Sports & Leisure Centre on Tuesday, October 28th.  Many thanks to all members of the out-going committee for their sterling service to the club during the year.  See the Committee Page for details of the new committee for 2010/11. 

A Fancy Dress Dinner & Dance will take place in the Portmarnock Golf Links Hotel on Saturday, October 16th.  Tickets €25 per person.  Contact a member of the Committee for further information or to purchase tickets.

Join Orlando, Keira (Johnny can’t make it owing to filming commitments) and a host of celebrities at PSAC’s Annual Pirate Day & BBQ on Saturday, August 28th.  Contact Les for more details.

Some images from recent(ish) hike around Howth Head.

Some images from the Club Week in Allihies.

An ISA Coxswain Course will be run on June 26th – price is €50.  Contact Louise for further information.

Click here for some shots of the club’s trip to Killary over the June Bank Holiday weekend.

A CANNON linked to a fortune in gold has been unveiled as a tourist attraction at Downings Pier more than 90 years after it sank to the seabed 39 metres down in the mouth of Lough Swilly, Co Donegal.

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Click here for some shots from the St. Patrick’s trip to Carraroe.

…He’s making a list, He’s checking it twice, He’s going to blow you up, Whether you’re naughty or nice…

Click here for some shots from the Christmas Party in The Loft Restaurant.  Click here, save to your desktop, turn up the sound, double-click it…and Merry Christmas to one and all! 

Click here for some shots from the Bank Holiday Weekend in Downings, Co. Donegal.

The following article appeared in the May 6th edition of The Irish Times.

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Click here for a short report and some images from the holiday weekend on Achill Island.

The following article appeared in The Irish Times on February 7th, 2009. Continued…

The Kayaking Weekend has been organised for the Carlingford Adventure Centre on February 27th to March 1st – two nights.  Contact Les for further details. 

See if you can spot the 44th President of the United States of America in the chart above.