02/10/2026
✨Exciting news! Deborah has organised a Girls That Go Diving Day and she has some more information to share about it! If you are interested and want to join in you can email her and register your interest!
Deborah:
I decided to have a girls That Go Diving Day, just to get us girls together in a safe environment where no-one feels that they have to keep up with the boys.
When I joined my club I very much felt that if I didn’t keep up it would be frowned on, muttered about with side ways glances. I was hugely over weighted and had the skill of sinking like a brick or shooting like a rocket, the club advice was it’ll get easier... After struggling for 6 months before I gave up, I decided to give it one more shot. I asked if there was anyone outside of the club could come and give me some advice, 6 kg lighter – I’ve never looked back.
To be in a club where you feel there’s no option to voice your concerns, problems or niggles can make female diving very difficult and even a bit lonely, it shouldn’t be that asking for help and support should make you feel less.
Our bodies go through so many changes several times through our active lives it’s hard to keep up. I’ve heard so many great bits of advice and encouragement given to female divers in the changing room, why not bring it out of the changing room. Having more confident female divers in clubs has got to be a good thing?
I’m not looking to replace the macho stereotype with a female version, I’m hoping that giving female divers a non-judgemental place where they can voice their feelings, concerns or worries will take away some of the stress.
I’m interested in hearing where concerns are the greatest and looking at how these can be managed, if in some way we can work together to make scuba diving a more inclusive environment.
If guys want to join us, so they don't feel left out they're welcome. As long as they understand it's hopefully going to be very female based conversations!
