Ontario Underwater Council
Benefits of being a Member, and of being a Member Club in OUC
- The same terrifically low price this year for comprehensive liability insurance coverage for scuba clubs and members.
- Liability insurance for the Board of Directors of your OUC club: Directors and Officers insurance.
- New this year for OUC Non-Training Clubs: Errors & Omissions liability insurance for instructors and divemasters.
- Promotion of safe practices in all aspects of scuba diving.
- Subsidy of $150 for member clubs and individual OUC members to purchase their own oxygen analyzer for scuba tanks, especially Nitrox.
- Loan of scuba safety equipment such as AED (Automated External Defibrillator) to take with you on your club’s events.
- OUC online directory with your club listed, including website, social media, contact info.
- Free advertising for club events.
- Space to promote your Club at OUC’s booth at various annual venues, such as The Outdoor Adventure Show, NDA’s Shipwrecks, OUE’s Scuba Swap.
- Invitation to Zoom and live events for the diving community (e.g., 2026 seminars such as the discovery of a schooner off Toronto with Heison Chak, Inner Space Seminar with Jill Heinerth on her career in cave diving.)
- Group discount pricing on safety gear such as Lifejackets/PDFs.
- Membership card.
- Below the Surface monthly newsletter from OUC with helpful info on scuba safety, group purchases, recalls & service updates, risk management, liability insurance, community events, scuba swaps, seminars, shipwreck symposium, marine archaeology discoveries and highlights from Great Lakes underwater history.
- Representation of the scuba diving community to provincial and federal governments, with the goal of deferring government regulation, and preserving self-regulation and community-led governance of the sport.
- Knowing that your membership supports OUC’s many sport safety initatives.
Find out how to join OUC:
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