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Tenerife Underwater Explorers

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Tenerife Underwater Explorers
We´ve been host this week to an introductory training course for GUE (Global Underwater Explorerrs) run by Polish instructor Wojtek Filip. It has been fascinating to see a ddifferent apporach to dive training, though we didn´t envy them the walk across the beach with twin 12 litre tanks and up to 14 kg of wight attached! Clearly this is training for conditions much harsher than we generally experience here with safety, back up and intense training being the order of the day.

Rebreather Friendly

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Rebreather Friendly
It´s been great to welcome back Michael & Lea from Denmark who´ve been enjoying diving this week with their Inspiration & Evolution rebreathers. We got geared up for their visit supplying all the necessery support including CO2 absorbant, diluent cylinders, oxygen cylinders, aluminium bali-out cylinders etc. They even had private access to our second boat to make the most of their different style of diving making a full 2 hour dive yesterday.

We would be happy to welcome more CCR divers in the future so if you would like to make use of these facilities and bring your own rebreather we´ll be happy to accommodate you.

Finnish dolphin

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Finnish dolphin
2 of our recent visitors from Oxygene Helsinki, Ville and Soili, just returned, very excited, from their first dive with dolphins.  Soili has some great photos (one shown here striking a pose!) but unfortunately our videographer had left his movie camera back at base as he was leading the dive on this occasion, so we have no live footage.  Wouldn’t you know it!

 

Christmas accommodation offer

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Christmas accommodation offer
We have a special offer for Christmas and New Year accommodation in 4* Tenerife Royal Garden – a large well equipped studio apartment is available at a fraction of the normal seasonal price. One week will be just 495 euros per week; normal price is 795 euros. Get in touch urgently if you fancy Xmas day on the beach!

Free NITROX

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Free NITROX is coming
We are in the process of extending our compressor room to make room for a new suite of compressors to supply NITROX. So from January 2010 we will be offering free NITROX to all our customers qualified to use it. If you are not yet a NITROX diver, sign up for your course now!

Dive show

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Dive show
As usual Steve and Madge of Oxygene Tenerife will be at the NEC in Birmingham on 24-25 October. They expect to be circulating quite a bit (things to do , people to see...), so call to arrange a chat if you´re there too - they´d hate to miss you: 0044 7939 080179. 

 

Dolphin Delight

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Dolphin Delight

Although we quite regularly see dolphins from the boat, they usually disappear when we get in the water. As you can imagine therefore it was a particular treat to see dolphins playing around the rigging whilst we dived our local wreck, El Meridian, on 2 different occasions in the last week. At first it was rather worrying to see one of them with a plastic bag apparently stuck to its fin, and even more worrying to see the same thing several days later. But then it did a little flip and removed the bag and went on to play around with it, doing somersaults and tossing it around. What a relief – the whole thing was just playtime!