The Aquanaut Dive Club was started in 1995 by Charlie Thellusson and Ross Prideaux as part of the Aquanaut Training Centre in Kingston. Its aim was to provide PADI divers with regular opportunities to dive in the UK. It remained a part of the Aquanaut Training Centre until 2002 when it was decided that the club would operate independently. Since then it has remained as an independent club, not owned or run by a dive centre.

The club's main purpose is to organise a varied and exciting programme of diving within the UK.

Charlie Thelluson ran the Club until the end of 2006 with a great number of trips being organised each year, mainly to locations along the south coast but also to places such as Scapa Flow, Pembrokeshire, The Farne Islands, Oban and Cornwall. From 2000 onwards a number of members completed training in Advanced Nitrox & Decompression Procederes, Basic Trimix and Advanced Trimix. Some of the trips each year were planned to deeper depths for these divers. Over the last 3 years some members have moved on to rebreathers, we currently have members diving both Inspirations and Megalodons.

Charlie Thelluson, one of the first in the Club to start diving on a rebreather has now given up running the club and is concentrating on deep UK wreck diving.

From the start of 2007, the club has been run by Pete Huckin with additional help from other members. Pete is a PADI Instructor #638390. He has been diving for 7 years with over 300 dives logged, mainly in the UK but also in the Red Sea, New Zealand & Australia.

The club has undertaken an extensive amount of UK diving during the last ten years including two visits to Scapa Flow, two to the Farne Islands, and trips to Oban, Cornwall, Pembrokeshire along with regular dives out of Littlehampton, Swanage, Plymouth and Dartmouth.

The club now has a wide range of experience levels from novice UK divers to advanced open and closed circuit trimix.