VIRGINIA DIVE CLUBS

Apnea Addicts
Fredericksburg, VA
Meeting Time: Wednesday evening 1830 hrs
Meeting Place: TBA
Contact: harbourlyt@gmail.com or phone 540-604-1111
Free diving club for spear fishing, underwater photography,training, gun building ,tournaments,and trips to the Atlantic Ocean. Affiliated with Dive Quarters in Virginia Beach and with the Mid Atlantic Free Diving Club of Virginia Beach. Club president has been free diving since 1960. 20 years off of Va Beach and most points of the boxed compass .


The Capital Divers Association
Washington, DC metropolitan area
Meeting Times: Fourth Monday of every month at 7:30 pm.
Meeting Place: Harmony Hall Recreation Regional Center, 10701 Livingstone Road, Ft. Washington, Maryland
Contact: A. Dale Fox, President, 10700 Marlborough Road, Fairfax, VA 22032-2222, adalefox@erols.com
Scott McGuire, Vice President, 2232 N. Illinois St., Arlington, VA 22205,
smcguire@erols.com
The Capital Divers Association is celebrating its 30th year in 2002. It sponsors monthly program meetings with topics ranging from local dive opportunities to wreck diving seminars to dive safety. It's membership consists of experienced and novice divers alike. The dive season runs from April through October and features a wide range of degrees of difficulty from novice wreck and quarry dives to more advanced wreck dives. Most of our quarry diving is done within three hours drive of the metro DC area and are usually centered around family events. Our ocean dives are usually on the wrecks off the North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware coasts. Membership is $20.00 per year plus a $5.00 initiation fee for new members. Benefits of membership include a monthly newsletter, group rates for club dives and some expenses for speakers and special activities.


Chesapeake Bay Barracudas DIve Club
Portsmouth, VA
Meeting Time: 7PM, 3rd Tuesday of each month
Meeting Place: Chesapeake Bay Diving Center, 655 Mt. Vernon Ave, Portsmouth VA
Contact: Dan.Yuchnovicz@chesapeakebaydiving.com
Web Address: www.chesapeakebaydiving.com
The Chesapeake Bay Barracudas Dive Club chapter of the SSI Club Aquarius is devoted to the activities, fellowship and information related to the sport of diving, and the promotion of safety, research, education and public service relative to underwater topics and activities. It's a great place to have fun, food and meet a new dive buddy.


Chester Dive Club
Chester, VA
Meeting Time: 3rd Wednesday of the month at 6:00 p.m.
Meeting Place: Colonial Italian Restaraunt, Colonial Heights
Contact: training@tricityscuba.com
Web Address: www.chesterdiveclub.com
General Information: The Chester Dive Club has been around since February 2002. We have around 20 active members and enjoy dive trips from Canada to the Carribean. Come check us out. We are a faimily friendly dive club.


DIVEMASTERS Assocation
Hampton, Virginia
Meeting Times: 6:30pm
Meeting Place: Topeka's Steakhouse'n Saloon / 55 TownCenter Way / Hampton Virginia
Contact: divemas@divealot.com
Web Address: http://www.divealot.com
The Divemasters Association is open to all seafarers - young and old alike. You don't have to be a divemaster, or even a diver, to join. If you want to become a certified diver or advance your current certification level, the Divemasters Association will help you succeed.

With a roster that includes many advanced divers, membership in the Divemasters Association provides newly certified divers the opportunity to learn and gain experience that will help make their diving adventures safe and more enjoyable.

Club activities include 'scuba cookouts' with underwater treasure hunts, many one-day local dives trips, and multi-day diving trips to many locations in Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the Caribbean.

The club meets on the first Thursday of the month from February through October with a Holiday party in December. Meetings are held at Topeka's Steakhouse'n Saloon 55 TownCenter Way, Hampton, VA. Dinner from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Meeting begins immediately following dinner.

For more information, contact Jim Cook at (757) 826-3945, (757) 826-7879 (FAX), email divemas@divealot.com, or visit our web site and fill out the 'Contact Us' form and we'll call you!


Fathom Divers
Woodbridge, VA
Meeting Time: 2nd Thurdays, 7 PM
Meeting Place: Check online calendar
Contact: diverdown@fathomdivers.org
Web Address: http://www.fathomdivers.org
Fathom Divers Dive Club is native to northern Virginia and the greater-Washington, DC area. The club was formed to promote the philosophy of "REEFS." [Recreation Education Enjoyment Fellowship Safety] We promote an active diving lifestyle and hope that you will contact us to join us for a dive.


Northern Virginia Scuba Club
Alington, Virginia
Meeting Times: Second Monday Every Month-7:00pm
Meeting Place: Call for Details
Contact: postmaster@scubanova.com
Web Address: http://www.scubanova.com
The most comprehensive site in the Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC areas. On the site you will find detailed lists and descriptions within a 5 hour radius, searchable lisitings for dive shops and those that offer discounts to members and much much more!


Peninsula River Rats
Hampton, VA
Meeting Times: Fourth Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.
Meeting Place: Northampton Branch of the Hampton Public Library
Contact: c.t.howell@larc.nasa.gov
Web Address: http://members.tripod.com/scuba_rat
The Peninsula River Rats is a SCUBA Diving Club dedicated to "camaraderie through safe diving." The club promotes the enjoyment and safety as well as the educational aspects of SCUBA diving. Club members range in experience level from novice to certified dive master. The club organizes a variety of one-day local dives as well as multi-day diving trips to a variety of locations in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and the Caribbean. The club meets from March through November on the fourth Tuesday of the month at the Northampton Branch of the Hampton Public Library at 936 Big Bethel
Road. The meetings begin at 6 pm with a program at 6:30 and conclude at 7 pm. Club individual and family dues are $15 per year. For more information, contact Charles Howell at 864-3974, 864-9714 (fax), or c.t.howell@larc.nasa.gov (e-mail).


Richmond Dive Club, Inc.
Richmond, VA
Meeting Time: 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm
Meeting Place: Mi Chacienda restaurant on Midlothian Turnpike
Contact: communications@richmonddiveclub.com
Web Address: www.richmonddiveclub.com
The Richmond Dive Club turned 10 this year. Although our monthly meetings are open to the public, we hope that after attending a meeting, you will decide to join us.
Benefits:
Participation in RDC trips
Parties, guest speakers and special events
Great diving with folks at all levels of diving
certifications
Voting privileges


Scuba Club at Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
Meeting Times: 5:30 pm every other thursday
Meeting Place: tba
Web Address: www.scvt.org
This is a great club organized by the students of Virginia Tech. Visit the webpage for tons of info, dive sites on the east coast and more.


SeaDevil Divers
Charlottesville, VA
Meeting Times: 6:30pm 2nd Monday of each month
Meeting Place: Rococo’s Restaurant
Contact: scuba@seadevildivers.com
Web Address: http://www.seadevildivers.com
SeaDevil Divers is an area scuba club working in association with various dive shops and resorts. The clubs principle purpose is to promote, develop and foster an active dive community in Central Virginia, including Charlottesville, Albemarle and the University of Virginia.


Tappahannock Scuba Meetup
Tappahanock
Meeting Time: 6:30pm Last Tuesday of each month
Meeting Place: Roma's Resturant in Tappahnnock, VA 22560
Contact: mheaster@gmail.com
Web Address: http://www.meetup.com/scuba-202/
Main Purpose : Meet and Socialize and discuss the sport of SCUBA Diving and opportunities for local diving and dive related travel.
I am quite passionate about Diving and would love to get together with other people locally and talk about this great sport!
Our goals for our next meeting are to each bring along 2 or 3 other people so we have a full fledged gaggle of people attending (I am not quite sure exactly how many make up a gaggle?) I was also neglect in getting a picture of our inaugural group for this website! (AGAIN!) This may come back to haunt us once we grow into a massive organization! (lol)


Tidewater Sea Urchins
Norfolk, VA
Meeting Times: 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place: Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 110 Union Hall, 520 Naval Base Road, Norfolk
Contact: marcib@worldnet.att.net
Web Address: http://members.home.net/gunner/diving/tsu.htm
The Tidewater Sea Urchins, oldest independent dive club in Virginia's Tidewater area, was formed in the early ‘60s in Norfolk, Virginia. The club is not affiliated with any dive shop; its loyalties are to its members.


VA Scuba Spearfishing Club
Manassas VA 20109 USA
Meeting Times: Varies
Meeting Place: Virginia Scuba
Contact: bill@vascuba.com
Web Address: www.vascuba.com
An elite group of hunters and killers. Open to both freedivers and scuba spearfisherman. We thrive on the slaying and eating of the oceans bounty. We arrange special charters out of Virginia Beach to wrecks that provide an ample bounty. All kills are carefully documented for reporting to Spearfishing Magazine. Clinics are held with major spearfishing suppliers and manufacturers.

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