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In 1955,
Mr Jack Willands and Mr John Lawton, spoke to the then chairman of the
B.S.A.C. Mr Oscar Gugen, about forming a local sub-aqua branch in Huddersfield.
 The
local
newspaper, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, published an article to give
the idea some publicity, and 35 people attended a meeting on the 10th of
February 1955.
At that
meeting it was decided that the aims of the club would be: "The
promotion of underwater exploration, science and sport, and to promote
safety in these activities", and so the 18th branch of the British Sub Aqua Club
was born!
Initially
the branch borrowed an aqua lung, and 6 months later, the club tried its
very own set for the first time in Ramsden St. Baths, Huddersfield, which in those days
cost the princely sum of 15 Shillings an hour to hire.
 In August
1955, members of the branch set off to Trearddur Bay in Anglesey, where
they were
transported out to the dive site by rowing boat!
A reporter
from the Examiner, covered the expedition and wrote "Once you have put on
your aqualung, mask, snorkel breathing tube, and flippers, you are on your
way to becoming a real live Tarzan, cum underwater frogman"
Things have come a long way since those
early days!
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