<p>I asked my daughter about this since she is in RSMAS and the SCUBA Club. Here is her reply:</p>
<p>The SCUBA club is open to all students at the UM. It costs $65 to join for the year, and I think $35 for a semester (though I haven’t joined only for a semester yet, so I don’t know the price). For that you get access to all the club equipment (BCDs, tanks, regs, wetsuits, weights/weightbelts, and other misc gear) for club dives and any other dives you might want to do outside the club during the semester (you just have to coordinate with an officer and sign them out). This past year the club started standardizing the dive rates at $35 per dive. They also started doing a dive card that’s 4 dives for $100. Shore dives are usually about $5 each. Yes, we do go diving EVERY WEEKEND (except the weekend in the middle of finals, and during breaks, though you can usually find someone to coordinate with if you’re really desperate). Usually there’s an open water and an advance dive each weekend, though it can vary. We usually dive off of Key Largo when we’re in the Keys, and a variety of places up north, like Jupiter and Pompano Beach. The northern dives tend to be advanced, and the ones in the Keys tend to be OW. We coordinate with one of the dive shops down here to run OW certification classes around every 3-4 weeks during the semester for $220. We also offer AOW certification classes, though not as frequently, for the same price. There’s a camping trip at the end of each semester during reading days (both semesters last year we went up to Ginnie Springs and dove in the freshwater springs there - there was also an optional cavern diving class). There’s also the occasional “big trip” - last semester we went up to Disney World and dove in the Living Seas aquarium in Epcot ($55 for both the dive and a hotel room). It’s the second largest club on campus, but it really should be the largest, because we’re that awesome. </p>
<p>If you have any more questions, one of my roommates is the Vice President of the SCUBA club this year (and was Treasurer last year), so I can ask her about anything that I don’t know.</p>