Icicle Divers Sub Aqua Club

About Us

Icicle Divers (SAA108) is an independent dive club affiliated to the Sub Aqua Association (SAA). The club was formed in 1961 and currently has around 30 active members, ranging from highly qualified and experienced divers, to complete novices.

The Club gets together once a week for a pool session. Pool sessions are held every Monday evening (except Bank Holidays), from 9 p.m. until 10.00 p.m. at Crewe Swimming Pool (Flag Lane, Crewe). During the pool session we hold try dives, carry out training, or use it as a chance to get together, swim a few lengths, and plan the following week’s diving.

Icicle Divers owns it’s own equipment, including 2 Ribs (Rigid Inflatable Boats) and various dive kit that is available to hire, if needed.

We are a small, friendly dive club, with the emphasis on safe, enjoyable diving. Most weekends (including over the winter!) we can be found out and about, diving various dive sites throughout the UK. Our frequent dive sites include Capernwray, Stoney Cove, Hodge Close, Anglesey, Liverpool Bay, North Wales.

We also try to “get away” and arrange dive holidays, (as a group) to various locations around the world. Recent holidays have included Northern Ireland, the Red Sea, Scapa Flow, Plymouth and the Sound Of Mull.

Icicle Divers is a well-equipped dive club. We have two ribs (Rigid Inflatable Boats). One is an Osprey Viper and can carry between 7-10 divers and the other is a Chinook Seafury, which can carry 10 - 12 divers. Both ribs are fitted with safety equipment, including satellite navigation, decca, radio, flares etc.

We have our own club mini-bus which seats around 10 people (plus dive kit) and is used for towing the boats. Unfortunately, it’s not 4-wheel drive and so it tends to get stuck in the sand at Ross!

We also have various kit which is available to members to hire, to use while training, or to use for try dives, including BCD’s, regulator sets (1st & 2nd stage, spare, console), cylinders, mask, fins and weights. However, please note that we do not have any “club” wetsuits or drysuits available to hire, so you will need your own (and if you are thinking of diving in the UK, a drysuit is a must).

We recommend that you buy your own kit if you are going to dive regularly, and understand that this can be confusing, so if you need any help or advice, then just ask!