BSAC General Information - Contacts for Special Interest Groups
We understand that the following are the current contact addresses for various special interest groups and Diving Project / Expedition organisers in the British Isles whose activities involve diving or are likely to be of interest to divers. The inclusion of these contact details does not represent a BSAC endorsement of the aims and activities of any of the agencies. Please let us know if you have difficulty in making contact, so that we can recheck our sources of information and correct this Information Sheet if necessary.
Special Interest Groups
- British Octopush Association
Development Officer - Colin Deller 3 Merrion Village, Pembroke, Wales, SA71 5HT Tel: 01646 661357 Email: octopush@sportfocus.com - British Finswimming Association
Atherfield, Five Oak Green, Kent TN12 6TJ Email: alaric@finswimming.fsnet.co.uk - Nautical Archaeology Society
Fort Cumberland, Fort Cumberland Road, Eastney, Portsmouth PO4 9LD Tel/Fax: 0239 281 8419 Email: NAS@nasportsmouth.org.uk - Marine Conservation Society
9 Gloucester Road, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire HR9 5BU Tel: 01989 566017 Fax: 01989 576815 Email: mcsuk@mcmail.com - British Spearfishing Association
Chairman - Micheal Veal 6 Oakdene Rise, Mileoak, Brighton, Sussex BN4 2RS Tel: 01273 420547 - British Society of Underwater Photographers
Secretary - Jill McDonald 25 Beamish Road, London SW15 1DGTel: 020-8789 6005 - The Cave Diving Group
Secretary - John Buxton 38 Maulden Road, Flitwick, Bedford MK45 5BW Tel: 01525 712466 - British Free-Diving Association
Steve Gardner, Meadowside, Albert Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex TW12 1LB Tel: 008 941 1074 Email: free-diveuk@aol.com - The Historical Diving Society
Secretary - Mike Fardell 25 Gatton Road, Reigate, Surrey RH2 0HB Tel: 01737 249961 Email: info@thehds.com - British Divers Marine Life Rescue
Lime House, Regency Close, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1DS Tel: 01825 765546 Fax: 01825 768012 Email: kate@iar.org.uk - Society for Underwater Technology
80 Coleman Street, London EC2R 5BJ Tel: 0207 382 2601 Fax: 0207 382 2684 Email: sutadmin@demon.co.uk. - Scuba Industries Trade Association
29 Ravenswood Avenue, West Wickham, Kent BR4 0PN Tel: 0208 777 6740 Fax: 0208 777 3349 Email: pat@sita.org.uk. - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
P.O. Box 232, Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 7SB Tel: 0870 870 5001 Fax: 0870 870 5002
Diving Projects and Expeditions
- Coral Cay Conservation
The Tower, 13th Floor, 125 High Street, Colliers Wood, London SW19 2JG Tel: 0870 750 0668 Fax: 0870 750 0667 Email: info@coralcay.org - Frontier Expeditions
50-52 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QP Tel: 0207 613 2422 Fax: 0207 613 2992 web: www.frontier.ac.uk - Greenforce
11-15 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BP Tel: 0870 770 2646 Fax: 0870 770 2647 Email: info@greenforce.org - Operation Wallacea Expeditions
Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Spilsby, Lincs PE23 4EX Tel: 01790 763194 Fax: 01790 763825 Email: info@opwall.com - Raleigh International
27 Parsons Green Lane, London SW6 4HS Tel: 0207 371 8585 Fax: 0207 371 5116 Web: www.raleighinternational.org - Shoals of Capricorn Programme
Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR Tel: 0207 591 3066 Fax: 0207 591 3031 Email: shoals@rgs.or
Rescue and Safety Organisations
- The Maritime & Coastguard Agency
Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, SO15 1EG Tel: 023 8032 9401 Web: www.mcga.gov.uk - Receiver of Wreck
(administered by the MCA): www.mcagency.org.uk/row - RNLI
West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ Tel: 0800 543210 - Diving Diseases Research Centre (DDRC)
Derriford, Plymouth, Devon, Email: enquiries@ddrc.org - Hyperbaric Medicine Unit
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZB Scotland, UK Tel: 01224 553264
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