Costs

All prices are correct as 1st September 2025.

Try Dive

• £15 for Try Dive
• £5 for group bookings such as Venture Scouts

If you wish to book a try dive click here.

Stafford Sub-Aqua Club Annual Membership fee (January to December)

• £156 for Ordinary Member
• £78 for Social and Swimming Member
• £78 for Distance Member (Members who reside such a distance from the club that it is impractical for them to attend on a regular basis)
• £78 for Family Member (This is the child of an ordinary diving member who is either under 16 years old or in full time education)

BSAC Annual Membership fee

• £71.00 for New Member, Club Diver, Ocean Diver, Sports Diver, Dive Leader, Assistant Diving Instructor, Theory Instructor & Practical Instructors
• £66.00 for Club Instructor, Open Water Instructor, Advanced Diver
• £61.00 for First Class Divers & Advanced Instructors
• £52.00 for National Instructors
• £39.00 for Students (10 years + and proof of full time education required for 18 years and above)

BSAC Digital Training Packs

• £45.00 for Ocean Diver
• £42.00 for Sport Diver
• £42.00 for Dive Leader
• £42.00 for Advanced Diver

Example

An adult joining the club to learn scuba diving would pay:

£156.00 (Stafford Sub-Aqua Club Membership) + £71.00 (BSAC Membership) + £42.00 (Ocean Diver pack) = £269.00

Payments

Stafford Sub-Aqua Club accepts various payment methods as follows:

• Credit Card
• PayPal
• Monthly Standing Order
• Cheque
• Cash

Equipment Hire and Gas Fills

• Organised Training means training except Skills Development Courses (SDC) that has been sanctioned by the Diving Officer
• Personal Equipment means Equipment expected to be provided by the Trainee, typically but not limited to Dry Suit, Under suit, Hood, Gloves, Open water fins, Dive Computers and Torches

• Equipment Hire: A nominal charge will be made to cover maintenance costs when used for normal diving as follows:
• Nil for Diving Equipment whilst undertaking Organised Training in the pool or open water (subject to availability & excluding Personal Equipment)
• £10 for a for a SCUBA and weights per day
• £3.50 per single item per day (cylinder, pony, regulators, BCD, DSMB/SMB, Compass, etc.)

• Gas fills (Air only): A nominal charge will be made to cover maintenance and running costs when used for recreational diving as follows:
• Nil for pony top-up
• Nil for Organised Training including the filling of Trainee own cylinder
• Nil for Instructors delivering Organised Training
• £3.50 per cylinder otherwise

Quarry entrance Fees

The club uses commercially run diving centres for its quarry training. The facilities and fees vary, most sites now have a registration fee of between £10 and £25 and an entrance charge of between £15 and £25 for each days diving. It will also be necessary to get the diving cylinder topped up with air which costs about £7.