And so to the end of the second season of Diamond Diving......highlights of course including beating the French in a Rugby World Cup semi-final in Paris!!! Also Dolphins sited in Villefranche, St Raphael and Antibes...hunting barracuda, rays, huge snapper, free swimming morays etc etc etc. Now we have The Underwater Photography and Videography Festival at Marine-land and a final few dives in Golfe Juan and off the Cap D'Antibes to look forwards to with our friends from Mavericks and Ocean Optics...this is a date worth noting for next year as the water temperature is still twenty degrees.
A huge thank-you must go to all of our clients (both individuals and dive centres) this year who have enjoyed the unique combination of great diving, awesome food and wine, and beautiful scenery that our five destinations offer. We appreciate your support!
Congratulations in particular go to out to Duncan, Gail, Lindsey, John, Amanda, Jonny, Jim, Rob, Phoebe, Dave, Rosanna, George, John, Tom M, Tim, Will, Brenna, Peter, Dilli, Max, Tonya, Ali, Jo-Ann, Rhys, Nic, Katy and Emma on passing their various PADI qualifications.
For 2008 we will continue to offer our usual range of long weekend holidays, with the following points worth noting:
- In October '08 we will be offering wreck diving weeks around
the La Londe/Porquerolles Marine Reserve region.
- Speciality courses are a great way to build confidence and
open your eyes further to areas of interest from the PADI
Advanced Course. Of particular relevance to South of France
diving are Nitrox, Underwater Photography, Deep and Wreck
specialities. One or more of these may be completed over a
weekend.
- We do offer tailored itineraries, learn to dive weeks for groups and longer multiple destination trips...just phone or e-mail for further details
May '07
The couple of weeks have been spent diving with clients and
journalists at our fabulous partner dive centre on the Cap D'Antibes,
already resulting in a great write up in the regional English
speaking paper and events guide, "Let's Go Riviera". Their writer
Peter Hawkins put together a great eye witness account of his first
scuba diving experience. The dive centre has three boats, great
rental kit, generous tank fills, free private parking and great
shower facilities. Water temperature has now reached 18 degrees and
45 mins in the water with a 5mm one piece plus 5mm shorty is totally
comfortable.
Whilst diving of late we been treated to loads of octopus, doris
geant (a large colourful blue and yellow nudibranch), schooling
peacock wrasse, weird orange coloured scorpion fish (a mutation due
to the reproductive cycle I am told), morays with cleaner shrimp,
galatees and much much more. Further evidence of the migration of
tropical species to the Med is the catch of a local fisherman
recently of a 1m 30cm Great Barracuda. We hope to see some of those
underwater later in the season!
Do not forget that we offer the PADI Advanced course and a range of
specialities (inc wreck, deep, nitrox and underwater photography)
that fit nicely into a short break and are still offering good deals
for certain parts of the season. Current special offers include the
Open Water Referral (four dives, three nights) in Antibes for £325
and the Advanced Open Water course (five dives, four nights) for
£379. Please call or e-mail for further information.
March '07
Thanks to all of you who came along to the stand at the London
Dive Show over the weekend of March 10th and 11th. It was good to
see you all and we will be announcing the winner of the competition,
for those who entered, via e-mail next week.
Water temperatures are already at between 16 and 17 degrees,
promising a relatively warm start to the season's diving and we look
forwards to welcoming our first guests at the end of March. All the
usual suspects await underwater with sunshine, great food, fine wine
and much more to keep you occupied when you are not in the water.
Our latest pr has been courtesy of The Guardian travel section who
included a small piece about us, to see what they had to say please
click here.
We have started taking group bookings for 2008, so to get the pick
of the dates please call or
e-mail for a quote. Finally you will see that we are now a BSAC
Resort Centre and thus understand the BSAC training system and the
prerogatives for the various qualifications.
January '07
A
number of our weekends are now provisionally blocked out due to a
number of partnerships and deals with UK dive centres and clubs, so
do contact us as soon as you can to enquire about availability and
prices.
Also, we are delighted to announce that we will again be exhibiting
at the London International Dive Show (LIDS) on the 10th and 11th of
March. Visit us on stand 307 to enter a competition to win a trip
for two to a maximum value of £600, or to book a trip with us.
If you are thinking of travelling out to see us between the middle
and end of May we highly recommend booking immediately as leaving it
any longer will mean prohibitive flight prices due to the Cannes
Film Festival (16th to 27th) and Monaco Grand Prix (24th to 27th).
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