Yes, there is a scuba club here and it is quite well organized. They meet every month on the first Wednesday. They don't plan dives for the group, the members do the planning and the club announces them. The trips seem to be pretty energetic and expensive. I was hoping to find some of the members who like to dive locally, but it appears they are mostly on a higher level of experience and interest than I am.
I joined the club several months ago, and it seems that many of the members are very experienced divers and in fact have traveled to many exotic places. It's kinda hard to feel like part of the group when you are a new diver. They use terms and abbreviations that I'm not familiar with and I'm embarrassed to stop the meeting and ask for translation. I think that is usually the case in most clubs when a newbie joins. Since I am a relatively new diver, its hard to join in conversation with the others. At the end of the meeting, they all get up and leave. There's no way to socialize or get to know them.
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