Well were back at what can I say, the whole tour was amazing. I dont really know where to start. we traveled to Johannesburg with Ray coming from Bridgend, Tel from Swansea, Me from porthcawl, trina from Cardiff and Ceiron from Newport. We picked up our cars from the airport and headed off to Sodwana Bay in the North Eastern Side of the country.
We based ourselves in Sodwana for 3 days where we dived off 2 mile and 6 mile reefs, the diving was amazing in the most amazing place in the world. We saw moray eels, barracuda, beautiful reefs and a free swimming Manta Ray, truly an amazing experience.
We then packed up and headed for Durban in the south east of the country getting ready for our Scuba Diving Shark extravaganza. We all couldnt wait we had come from all over south wales Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Bridgend and Porthcawl and this is what we had been waiting for to dive with the ultimate Tiger Shark.
Well christmas is over and the New Year is about to dawn and what a way to celebrate by going to South Africa on the most amazing trip of a lifetime. We are off on the 2nd January to Johanesbury flying from heathrow, then we pick up our cars and were off to Sodwana which is the most southerly reef in the world and one of the best. In the team is Lee from Cardiff, Ceiron from Newport, Ray from Bridgend, Terry from Swansea and trina from Cardiff. They cant wait as we pack our cases and head off to the best country in the world.
We will be scuba diving in Sodwana bay and on the aliwal shoal in Durban where we will cme face to face with the beautiful shark community including the majastic Tiger Shark. We will keep you up to date with the trip and let you know how we get on as we go, we might even send you a postcard if your good. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We are running up to christmass now and were still in the water continuing with our diving courses in Cardiff and Swansea. The pool sessions are on a wednesday night at morriston Swimming pool in Morriston school we start at 6.15pm and go on to 8.15pm the courses here will prepare you to become a fully qualified diver with the certificate to dive anywhere in the world.
We also are running our diving courses in Cardiff at Hebron Hall in Dinas powys again completeing the referral course and refresher courses. this could be a good time to get a voucher for your nearest and dearest and get them into the wonderful world of diving.
We have had a great couple of weekends with the guys from Cardiff University as they complete their Scuba Diving courses. Last week Ed and Alex completed their Advanced Open Water Diving Course in the diving facility in Chepstow. The boys did really well making the most of the milder weather and taking the plunge to complete their advanced diving course.
At the same time we had Simon, colin and Ian from Swansea doing their Open water diving course and again the lads did really well completeing the course with flying colours.
We are now in the swimming pool in Hebron Hall in Cardiff completeing the referral part of the Open Water Diver Course with the guys from cardiff University, they will be doing their Open water in the new year from march onwards, to get their Open Water Diver certification.
The Welsh capital city of Cardiff attracts holidaymakers with its vibrant nightlife scene, rich culture and wide range of historical attractions. This coastal city is also blessed with clear waters, and scuba diving Cardiff is quickly becoming a popular activity among people who enjoy spending time under the surface of the water.
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The waters off Cardiff Bay are an excellent place to try scuba diving, and trips are organised from here all year round. Barry Island is situated just off the coast towards Cardiff International Airport and is another excellent scuba diving destination. Companies offer to combine scuba diving trips with snorkelling, jet skiing and a wide range of other exciting aquatic activities, which means that visitors can spend the entire day messing about in the water if they wish.
Taking a scuba diving trip in Cardiff is a great way to meet like-minded people and try something a little bit different while on holiday. Unlike many other parts of the world, the waters here are rarely crowded by boats and people, meaning that divers will find plenty of space to spread out and enjoy the experience to the full.
Among the diverse range of enchanting sea creatures and other types of marine life that are waiting in the waters to be discovered by divers are enormous schools of jacks as well as tuna and jelly fish. Visitors to Cardiff who take a diving trip will also have the chance to swim amongst groups of blue spotted stingrays, puffer fish and moray eels. Keen photographers will have plenty of time to get snap happy and capture the action on film so that they can relive the experience time and time again and share it with friends and family back home.
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Well the water temperatur was colder, but that didnt stop us have a great time on our open water courses this weekend. We had the boys from Cardiff, swansea and bridgend on their Open Water and Advanced diving weekends.
Ed,Alex, from cardiff university were on the advanced open water and completed in great style and colin, ian and simon were completeing there oopen water course after traveling from swansea and again passed with flying colours so well done to all of them on a great diving weekend.
This weekend were back in the water with a very full programme, we have and Advanced open water diving course with Ed and Alex from Cardiff Univercity, we have a dry suit diving course with Charlotte from Cardiff and we have Colin, Simon and Alex compleing their PADI Open Water Diver Course from swansea.
We have our last weekend in the Open Water before the winter break, but our diving certainly dosent stop their. We still have our full programme of diving in our pool at Hebron Hall in Dinas Powys in Cardiff, we also have our wednesday night pool sessions in Morriston Pool in Swansea and last but certainly not least we have our aazing dive trip to South Africa in January. So we just cant stop diving.
Novembers here and were in the Open Water as usual with a group from cardiff, swansea and bridgen. We also have the crew from cardiff university with us on a pleasure dive weekend taking the plunge.
Were back in the National Diving and Activity center in Chepstow for the 4 qualifying Open Water dives of the PADI Open Water Diver course and we have Gary, Mathew, Guto, James and Eli from Swansea and Emma from cardiff. The temperature of the air has dropped a little bit bet the water temperature is still looking good at about 12 degrees and trust me thats good.
Were also in the pool every wednesday and once a mounth in cardiff getting reday to get into the Open Water. We have also just taken our bookings for our trip to South africa in January a real trip of a life time, we'll give you details next time about our big South African Adventure.
Well its that time of year, the nights are shorter and the days colder but that dosent stop us diving in fact far from it, we had a full pool of divers on the weekend in Hebron Hall in cardiff completeing their referral open water diving course which will allow them to dive any where in the world up to 18 meteres.
We had a group in from Cardiff University run by the illusive Rose, Emma and Tom and will also had emma, sam and graham with us to enjoy the wonders of Scuba Diving.
The course consists of practical and theoretical elements of how to become a diver and completes with 4 Open Water Dives which the guys will be doing later in the year.
As usual we will keep you up yo date with all the events as they unfold.