The Great British Dive, a Charity Guin­ness World Record™ attempt for the “Most People Scuba Diving” will take place on Sat­ur­day the 24th Septem­ber 2011 with Sun­day the 25th being reserved should the weather not be favourable on the Sat­ur­day. is cancelled as, according to ScubaClick, “the num­bers that reg­is­tered and who paid to take part in the event just do not jus­tify the expense that would have been incurred and would not there­fore have raised any money for the char­i­ties ScubaClick were hop­ing to support.”

ScubaClick will shortly announce a new date for next year’s Great British Dive giving divers more time to plan the attempt into their calenders.

The cur­rent record was set in August 2009 when the Indone­sian Navy organ­ised 2.486 divers to dive simultane­ously.

Divers will be asked to pay £10 to take part in the event and to raise fur­ther money through per­sonal spon­sorship. The event could raise over £150,000 for char­i­ta­ble causes. The event is pri­mar­ily aimed at rais­ing money for local and national char­i­ties. Such as the Swan­age Heroes Haven, a reg­is­tered local char­ity rais­ing money to pur­chase, equip and run a spe­cially adapted log cabin for the use of dis­abled ser­vice per­son­nel and their fam­i­lies on a local hol­i­day park in Swan­age. The RNLI essen­tial for beach and sea safety is a natural choice, in appre­ci­a­tion of the brave work that the RNLI do.

The Scuba Trust also aim to assist by arrang­ing train­ing and obtain­ing fund­ing to sub­sidise appli­cants, who due to dis­abil­ity, encounter dif­fi­culty in find­ing suit­able instruc­tion and who may face a greater out­lay for training and recre­ational div­ing after certification.

There will be a num­ber of div­ing related exhibitors and a prize draw for all those that take part, on the grass field known as Sand Pit Field, which over­looks Swan­age Bay. There will be a Guin­ness World Record™ adju­di­ca­tor present and the announce­ment if the record has been bro­ken should be made around 5.30pm. After which there will be live music and a bar for all to cel­e­brate and enjoy hav­ing taken part in such a his­toric event.

For more infor­ma­tion about The Swan­age World Dive Attempt and the registration form go to: http://gwr.scubaclick.com