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23.01.2022 Monthly Club meeting is on this week at the Hotham, everyone welcome
20.01.2022 Reminder AGM is on next Saturday, 6:30 at the Sir Charles Hotham Hotel.
20.01.2022 Good news - we'll be restarting the pool training sessions. All details below, hope to see you all! When: Every Monday, 7pm. Starting on February 1st Where: Geelong Aquatic Centre (https://g.page/GeelongAquaticCentre?share) How to join: Please book here: https://geelongfreedivers.org.au/pool-training/... Why: Pool training is mainly about improving your freediving technique - breath hold, finning, relaxation. It's a great way to improve your skills - whether for freediving or spearfishing - and hangout with your amazing club colleagues Note: We normally require everyone coming in for the first time to do a safety induction. But since we haven't had the sessions in over a year, we'll be doing a safety induction for everyone this first session. Probably a shorter refresher for old members and a full session for new ones. Many thanks to everyone who put their hand up to help!
18.01.2022 A big shout out to our sponsors, Geelong Dive Centre Ninepin Wetsuits Ironbark Logistics and Continuum Fins, thanks for all your support and to all our members and followers lets get behind them and buy local instead of online ;)
16.01.2022 Pool training is starting up on Monday with everyone being run through the safety induction again. If you have already done one then you would have been inducted by one of our ocean snorkelling coaches or a more senior member of the club. This time however we have a real professional who has volunteered to do this for us as well as review our induction materials. So a BIG thanks to Matt for doing this. For those of you who don't know Matt he is a certified freediving instruc...tor who.... well I'll let Matt speak for himself... "I discovered freediving on a surfing trip to Indonesia in 2015. I really enjoyed freediving right from the beginning and did the ssi level 1 & 2 courses back to back. It was the next year that my obsession for freediving started to grow substantially. In 2016 did a master course and a level 3 course in Koh Tao. From this point my life very quickly started to become just all about freediving. I had found my passion! A couple of years later I had some good instructing experience under my belt and had done a pb dive of 81m in competition at the end of 2018. In the year leading up to covid(2019), I had further increased my instructing and diving skills. Plus I did an Australian National record dive to 81m with bifins." - Matt Anderson https://geelongfreedivers.org.au/pool-training/
15.01.2022 AGM this Saturday at 6:30 at the Sir Charles Hotham Hotel. *Beer and finger food provided *Door prizes *Fun creative activity (with prizes)
12.01.2022 For those planning on diving this weekend, a reminder it's now passed 30th April so we're now in the closed season for taking Abalone in central Victorian waters. https://vfa.vic.gov.au//type/shellfish/abalone-all-species
06.01.2022 Reminder our monthly club meeting is on tomorrow night at the Sir Charles Hotham Hotel at 6:30pm
04.01.2022 Dec club meeting cancelled... due to us having our AFM on the 19th
04.01.2022 Quick video from our first safety induction a few weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I4QMwsTaro
03.01.2022 Due to the ongoing uncertainty with COVID and having cancelled our last seasons competition series the GFD committee have decided to change things up for this season. We have put on hold the Surf Coast Cup and the Underwater Photography Challenge but we are still keeping the Club Spearfishing Championship and adding a new series called the Species Showdown. [ 213 more words ] https://geelongfreedivers.org.au/2020-21-competitions/
02.01.2022 Happy new year fellow spearos! In the closing moments of 2020 GFD held our AGM/Xmas party. I would to thank our sponsors, your continued support of the club is greatly appreciated and allows us to run such a variety of events. Thanks to: Geelong Dive Centre Ninepin Wetsuits... Continuum Fins Ironbark Logistics Sir Charles Hotham Hotel I would like to thank our committee members for the 2019/20 season for all your hard work in keeping the club running: President: Hayden McFadyen Vice President: Gerard Saunders Secretary: Russell O’Flynn Treasurer: Peter Field Membership Secretary: Russell O’Flynn Safety and training officer: Danny Hurst Weighmaster: Julian Kenny Events coordinator: Richard Just VSC liaison: Nam Luong For the new season we decided to take a more relaxed approach to the committee and have the positions required by government and then to have just generic committee member positions. And so I would like to welcome our new committee for the 2020/21 season. The new committee consists of: President: Hayden McFadyen Vice President: Gerard Saunders Secretary: Russell O’Flynn Treasurer: Peter Field VSC liaison: Nam Luong Committee Member: Catherine Birch Committee Member: Louis Attard Committee Member: Richard Just Committee Member: Ivan Galic Its great to see some of our newer members stepping up, having members willing to work on the committee will ensure the longevity of the club. Whilst we had cancelled our competition series due to COVID there was still plenty of swag up for grabs. Apologies, in the excitement of actually seeing people again I forgot to take any photos! We had prizes for club records, door prizes and even a fun competition where people made spearguns out of rubber bands and paddle pop sticks. It was a great night and so good to see so many of you after so long. I’m looking forward to the new season and all its challenges and getting in the water with you all! Regards Hayden McFadyen President Geelong Freedivers
01.01.2022 Pool training is on hold till the 19th due to school holidays
01.01.2022 We have our monthly club meeting scheduled for this Wednesday and unlike the last couple of months let/s not Zoom, let/s meet up in person! Our sponsor Sir Charles Hotham Hotel are able to host us again so lets rally behind them and meet up in person whilst ordering a drink (or two) and a meal. There is a size limit of 20 people and social distancing rules apply. Date: 8th July Time: 6:30 pm Location: Sir Charles Hotham Hotel https://geelongfreedivers.org.au/club-meeting/
