UCD Sub-Aqua Club

Trainee weekend 2026 and what a weekend it was ☘️🙌 A huge congratulations to everyone who got their 1* 👏 Here’s to many more dive trips. Thank you to all of our hard working Mons and everyone who made this weekend possible

Join us Wednesday 11th March for a special screening of Who Needs Anemones, which follows the story of scuba divers from both sides of the Irish border on their journey to become citizen scientists. This documentary showcases the beautiful marine life in Carlingford Lough. We are delighted to announce that Lia Philcox, the filmmaker, will be joining us on the night to answer all of your questions about this incredible documentary. To find out more and to register for this event, free of charge, follow the link in our Link Tree in our bio. We are looking forward to welcoming you all on the night! ☺️👏

We might be running late with our 2025 post…but who doesn't love a good flashback to an amazing year!!

Get ready for the club’s first pub quiz of 2026! 🥳👏 Starting at 7:30pm in Farmer Browns Clonskeagh
Sign up ASAP by replying to the email sent by our Events Officer before Wednesday the 11th at 1pm to be included in the reservation!
If you forget to sign up, you can still come but you won’t be guaranteed a seat. Looking forward to seeing you all and testing your knowledge ;)

Get ready to dust off that ugly Christmas jumper! Join us for our Christmas party on Dec 6th at 7:30pm at Blackbird, Rathmines. See you there 🎄🎅

This Movember, UCD SAC is raising funds for The Samaritans in memory of our friend Declan O’Reilly, who we lost five years ago. Declan was a dedicated instructor, founding member and a huge part of our club. Each year we honour his memory by promoting mental health awareness and participating in the Movember campaign to fundraise for charities that help people who need it most. A big thank you and fair play to our members who have decided to go clean shaven or grown in a moustache this Movember 👏. You can support and donate to our campaign through the link to our fundraising page in our LinkTree. As part of our Movember fundraiser, we are hosting a special challenge of a 60 lap swim, at UCD swimming pool, Friday 21st at 9pm 🏊‍♀️🏊. All of our club members are welcome to take part in the swim or come along and cheer ☺️. Every bit of support counts and let’s remind each other that no one swims alone 💙💛.

☘️🏆 Shamrock Cup 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🏆☘️ The 2026 Shamrock Cup Underwater Hockey Tournament will take place March 21st at the UCD Swimming Pool 🏊, where all participating teams will have the chance to compete in friendly and fun competitions and engage with other clubs at an international level 🌍. We cannot wait to host this exciting event to promote UWH in Ireland and we look forward to meeting all of the teams 👏. Register your club now using the QR code in this post, or by using the link in our LinkTree in our bio ✍️.

☘️🏆 Shamrock Cup 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣🏆☘️ The 2026 Shamrock Cup Underwater Hockey tournament will take place March 21st at the UCD Swimming Pool 🏊, where all participating teams will have the chance to compete in friendly and fun competitions and engage with other clubs at an international level 🌍. We cannot wait to host this exciting event to promote Underwater Hockey in Ireland and we look forward to meeting all of the teams 👏. Register your club for the tournament using the QR code in this post, or using the link in our LinkTree in our bio ✍️

Six rescue candidates with six instructors from both UCD and were out training in Dublin Bay last weekend ☀️🛟 A very big thank you to all of the Mons 💙💛 and another shout out to Marlin Sub Aqua Club, whose boat we had out on the day 🌊. Many thanks to for letting us use their inside space for rescue theory and CPR training while the weather had taken a turn 🌧️. Well done to all of our rescue candidates who took part in the training, keep up the great work 💪!!

As part of Student Sport Ireland Week last week, we’re highlighting the number of incredible members here at UCD Sub-Aqua Club! 💙🤿
Swipe to read a fantastic member testimonial from Emma, sharing her experience as part of our club. 🌊

On my very first pool training with the club in 2021, one of our mons Patsy took a moment to emphasise that if anyone - a new member, an old member - ANYONE in the club was ever having a rough mental health time, the rest of the club was there to listen if we wanted or needed it. He meant it then and the club continues to mean it today.

In Ireland between 350 and 500 people die by su***de each year. It's something that each and every one of us will be affected by at some point in our lives. This year like last year the club planned a Dawn Dive to happen at the same time as Pieta Houses Darkness Into Light. It gave us a chance to remember the people we've laughed, dance to Pink Pony Club, and be together with the people we care about.

Gonna throw a link to the pieta house website into our stories for anyone who wants to donate to help Pieta House keep doing the important work they are doing.

At least 96 sausages eaten, at least 3 bottles of Buckfast finished, incalculable stairs climbed, and too many air tanks hauled, but it was all worth it to qualify 18 shiny new one star divers this past weekend in MalinBeg. We are so thrilled by this year's crop of new divers and can't wait to see what comes next for them. The hugest of thank yous to our mons, our snorkel instructors, our bottle hauliers, our dinner cookers, and all the people who work so hard to make this weekend the success it is. Everyone volunteers their time for the love of diving and we are so grateful to them!

Shout out also to who shared a pier with us all weekend, let one of our trainees dive with one of your mons, and who graciously accepted defeat in the boat race. We can't wait for Easter when we head to Downings, and the return of Dublin Bay Diving in the not too distant future!

ireland diving [photos taken from Google drive so taken by God knows who that was on the trip]