Who We Are

Dave, Steve, Mike and Paul look after the admin side of the club. Get in touch with them here: contact us.

Dave Howson

Diving Officer/Membership Secretary/Secretary

Dave has been diving since a try dive in Funchal, Madeira in 1991. He has been an active PADI member since 1994, currently Assistant Instructor #600491 and PSAI Extended Range Diver.

Dave is a chartered electrical and electronic engineer, working in product development for condition assessment tools for the electricity industry for more than thirty years.

Steve Barnard

Chairman/Treasurer/Lead Instructor

Steve's first dive was in 1994. He is a rebreather and open circuit technical instructor with over 5000 logged dives. He holds Advanced Mixed Gas Instructor qualifications with both TDI and BSAC and is a PADI Master Instructor.

Steve has a background in Scientific Diving, Emergency Response and RYA Advanced Powerboat instruction. He is commercially endorsed and is an RNLI Lifeboat Helmsman and Lifeboat Training Co-ordinator.

Mike Bailey

Socials and Events Officer

Mike started his diver training in 1984 with Vale Royal BSAC before transferring over to Northwich BSAC in 1985. He worked his way up to club instructor, later he went on to complete technical courses such as Advanced mixed gas, Mike has completed over 1500 dives in the sea, lakes, lochs, canals, pits, rivers and anything else with water in it.

He started working for the GPO in 1979 and eventually worked his way up to senior engineer for BT in North and Mid Wales before retiring in 2020, he also started his own security business in 1987 which is still trading today.

Paul Turkentine

Site Support Officer

Paul started diving after a visit from a plumber, when all the plumbers dive kit fell out the back of his van. It was possible the most expensive thing that could ever have happened as he has been paying for dive equipment ever since.

Paul has logged over 2000 dives and dives for fun and intends to keep it that way. To help with this he is now retired from farming and is enjoying the lack of responsibility.