SCUBA diving experts in Redditch are celebrating 50 years of underwater adventure with the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC).

Redditch Sub Aqua Club (SAC), which formed in 1967, is still going strong after five decades of underwater exploration in the UK and throughout the world.

The club, which has established its own pensioners’ section comprising of scuba divers in their 60s and 70s, boasts an exciting and action-packed past.

Highlights of its 50-year history include discovering a first officer’s ring on-board the sunken battleship HMS Eagle in the Scillies Isles in the 1980s which is now exhibited in the British Museum in London.

Divers from the club also reunited the owner of a precious 100-year-old gold signet ring with the family heirloom after it was lost in a local lake in 1989.

They also took part in a charity collection at Dartmouth Golf and Country Club in which they recovered 2,600 golf balls – and a golf club – from the course lake.

Members have also dived across the globe on holidays to explore the Red Sea, Canada, Norway, New Zealand and Australia.

To this day, the club continues to train at the site throughout the year.

To celebrate the half century milestone, the club are appealing for former members to get in touch to attend a reunion dinner and photo exhibition planned for June.

Club member Terry Langford, aged 69, a BSAC advanced instructor, who joined the club in 1982 said he was "proud" to be part of the Redditch SAC.

"It’s a great achievement to reach 50 years," he said.

Among the club’s founding members is renowned author, treasure hunter and wreck diver George Edmunds, aged 75, from Weymouth.

He set up the club after realising no such provision existed in the Redditch or Worcester area.

BSAC, the national governing body for scuba diving, is made up of 120 dive centres and 900 plus family friendly and sociable clubs, run by volunteers, up and down the country and abroad.

It represents more than 30,000 scuba divers and snorkellers and welcomes new members from complete beginners upwards including those who have trained with other agencies.

BSAC Chief Executive Mary Tetley said: "It’s a fantastic achievement for BSAC to be celebrating 50 years in Redditch.

"The pensioners’ section at Redditch SAC is testament to the camaraderie being a member of a BSAC club brings to our members.

"It also helps keep people active and healthy into later life and that’s certainly something to be celebrated."

Redditch Sub-Aqua Club trains every Tuesday at Abbey Stadium Sports Centre in Redditch and socialises at Redditch Cricket, Hockey and Rugby Club.

Any former member of Redditch SAC who wish to get in touch about the reunion should email: redditch-scuba@hotmail.com or find the club on Facebook.

For more information about BSAC go to bsac.com.