August 2011 Newsletter
Hi we hope you are all well and have enjoyed the dive season so far this year.
Trio have secured a new holiday booking. We are due to travel to Sharm El Sheikh between 9th and 16th October 2011. A full diving itinenary with the Red Sea diving college has been organised and if you are interested in booking on to this holiday please let us know either by e-mail or phone. The trip is open to all lever of diver and also non divers, the total holiday cost is £850 plus your diving package which is £215 for a basic 6 day dive package with the Read Sea College. Included in the cost is your accommodation, Egyptian Transfers, 6 days diving, air fills and weights. The accommodation as usual will be in the five star Hilton Dreams Hotel and all diving with Red Sea College.
Since our last newsletter, we have done a bit of diving both home and abroad.
Stoney Cove
Trio have made a couple of trips to Stoney Cove for some check out dives to start the season and also to qualify some Advanced Open Water Divers. The waters were a little cold but am sure they have warmed (slightly) since our last trip ready for our next planned trip on the 16th August.
L'Estartit
A small group of us travelled over to L'Estartit in Spain for a long weekend break and some cave diving. The weather was great and the sea conditions good. I my self was a little disappointed that we did not get to enter any caverns as these are great dives and something to really remember but we did get to dive the caves and the Regio and all I hope had a good time and gained some experience in diving somewhere new and a little different.
British Diving
Trio have also been on two trips so far this year out of Weymouth for some diving from Tango. The diving has been great and the vis good for the UK! We have taken a range of levels of diver from fully qualified CCR divers to newly qualified AOPW divers some of which have never dived the South coast before. Both trips have gone well and all involved I am assured have had a really great time.
We have some other Brighton Dives booked and one other Weymouth trip booked and confirmed so far this year. The Bridgton dives are one day dives throughout the remainder of the year and the Weymouth Trip has been arranged for October. However, all these dates and the Weymouth trip are now full, but for any of you not included in any of these dates keep an eye on your e-mails as we will be organising some further British diving shortly and will keep you posted.
Egypt Red Sea
This Friday Trio will be travelling to Port Ghalib in Egypt and boarding M/Y Blue Melody
for a weeks diving in the Red Sea. Not that we are on a count down but we only now have two working days left!
We will be doing the deep south itinerary
throughout the week and we hope to get in some really good diving visiting some great wrecks with the opportunity to see some great marine life as we have done on previous liveaboards. I for one can not wait so much so that I am already fully packed and ready to go. I hope like my self everyone else that is booked in this holiday is looking forward to the week and some great diving as much as myself.
Dates for your diary:
Tuesday 16th August - Stoney Cove Trip
Thursday 25th August and Tursday 1st September - Pool Closure due to pool maintenance
Saturday 27th August - Romford Brewery marketing day - come along and show your support for the club
Other News of interest
Race against the tide: How the most important shipwreck since the Mary Rose could disappear within five years
Lurking 130ft in the deep: The extraordinary creatures that live in the freezing waters of the Russian Arctic
For the full story click here.
For the full story click here.Highly-venomous jelly fish closer to British waters as global warming causes biggest shift of marine life in two million years
