Meet the Committee

Chairperson: Vacant

Secretary: Graham Higgins

Graham joined Dacorum Scuba with his son James in 2014 and they both qualified as Sports Divers in 2017. He has dived around the UK coastline from small boats and RIBs. He co-organised successful club trips to the Farnes Islands in 2022 and to Eyemouth and St Abbs in 2023. Graham enjoys scenic and wreck diving and also has a general interest in marine life including watching seabirds both above and under the water in their natural environment.

Treasurer: Bob Smillie

Bob joined DSAC as a trainee in October 2008 and after completing Sports Diver in 2010 he started to develop an interest in rebreather diving, within five years he had achieved CCR MOD 3 on his AP rebreather. In 2017, he completed his first 130m dive on the Transylvania wreck near Malin Head, Ireland, and has continued to consolidate his technical diving experiences on deep wrecks across the globe. In 2018, he moved to a r-Evo rebreather and gained TDI advanced mixed gas CCR qualification, the highest level in CCR training. Many sub-100m dives have taken place since then and he still enjoys the challenge of deep wreck diving. Bob completed an Open Water Instructor course successfully in 2017 and returns to open-circuit diving when training. “All this became possible initially by joining Dacorum Scuba, and the solid foundations laid by the club instructors on my initial journey into scuba diving, for that I am always grateful,” he says.

Diving Officer: Kevin King

Kevin joined Dacorum Scuba in 2009 as a PADI crossover diver and continued his training with BSAC. He is now an Advanced Diver. Over the last 16 years, he has dived extensively abroad and in the UK. He enjoys organising club trips so that he and others can experience and appreciate the interesting and varied diving the British Isles has to offer. Currently, Kevin is a keen CCR diver and uses an AP Inspiration XPD, but that said he is more than happy to dive open circuit when the need arises!

Equipment Officer: Brian Maleham

Brian started diving in 2022 and qualified as Ocean Diver and Sports Diver in his first year of diving with 58 recorded dives during this period. He enjoys diving in both the UK and abroad. He has dived in Malta, Mexico and Formentera and had a great time on the club trip to the Red Sea in Egypt, diving on his first liveaboard. Brian enjoys exploring both wrecks and reefs and is now training for his Dive Leader qualification.

Compressor Officer: Bob Smillie/Nick Godfrey

Welfare Officer: Sue King

Training Officer: Lindsey Doyle

September 2023 marked 30 years of DSAC membership for Lindsey, who learned to dive in Menorca on holiday in 1992, being unable to resist the temptation of the ocean following a try dive. Lindsey progressed through the diving and instructor grades and achieved Advanced Instructor in 2009. She began technical diving (using a twin set and stage cylinder for accelerated decompression) in 2007, but is still happy diving shallow with a single cylinder, as observing the marine life is her main passion. She has always loved teaching diving and has held committee positions of Membership Secretary, Training Officer and Diving Officer at various times over the years.

Communications Officer: Kristina Pedder

Kristina has been diving since she discovered scuba at university in the 1980s, where she qualified as an Advanced Instructor. She has led club diving and training from RIBs and other small boats all around the fabulous UK coastline. In 2009, she qualified as a 60m trimix diver, to see some of the deeper wrecks around the UK. Now, she dives an AP Diving Evo+ rebreather.

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