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Nothing to do with diving
I did enjoy reading this and just thought I would share it with you all A 98-year-old woman wrote this to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the Times. Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three ’nanoseconds’ must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic...
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Hyperbaric Chambers in the UK
For urgent information on diving emergencies in England, Wales or Northern Ireland telephone (07831) 151523 In Scotland call (0845) 408 6008 and ask for the on-call hyperbaric consultant. Outside the U.K. contact theDivers Alert Network At Sea contact the coastguard on VHF channel 16 Do not assume that the nearest recompression facility is the most appropriate for treatment. Hyperbaric Medicine UnitAberdeenScotland0845 408 6008Dunstaffnage Marine LaboratoryArgyllScotland01631 563175Ninewells Cha...
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UK dive info
Diving Bodys Padi - http://www.padi.co.uk/two4one/ BSAC - http://www.bsac.com/ Insurance Westfield - http://www.divinginsuranceuk.com/ Dan - https://www.daneurope.org/eng/english_.htm Direct travel - http://www.direct-travel.co.uk/ Buddy in depth - http://www.buddyindepth.co.uk/ Divemaster - http://www.dive-master.net/ Manufacturer Homepages Mares - http://www.mares.com/ Apex - http://www.apeks.co.uk/ Aqualung - http://www.aqualung.com/fr/en/ Scubapro/uwatec - http://www.scubapro.com/europe/uk/h...
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Airlines and Dive Gear
1. British Airways 23kg + 23kg dive gear (in seperate bags) FREE. http://www.britishairways.com/travel...t/public/en_gb 2. Astraeus 20kg + 5kg dive gear FREE (Egypt only. All destinations: 10kg dive gear for £20, 25kg dive gear for £50). http://www.flyastraeus.com/beforeyoufly/index.asp?id=42 3. Emirates 20kg + 10kg dive gear FREE. http://www.emirates.com/uk/Traveller...Qs/Baggage.asp 4. Malaysia 20kg + 10kg dive gear FREE (may need a bribe here and there) According to website hates divers! http...
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You know you`re addicted to scuba diving when
Every morning the sound of shaving foam (psshhhht) makes you want to go diving. You actually like wearing a full-length wetsuit, hood, gloves, boots, fins, mask, snorkel, buoyancy compensator, compressed air tank, scuba regulator, dive computer, a knife strapped to your inside calf, and 7 kg of lead around your waist, but people look at you strange in the office. The local dive shop people recognise you - on the telephone. You automatically breathe out when you walk up a flight of stairs. You su...
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Well that`s the end of 2007
Well 2007 is over and forward we fin into 2008, well 2007 diving got off to a slow start, it wasn’t until the 1st of June what I got my first dive in, that was in Cyprus at a site the locals call Fish Stone, no surprise when at around 5m there sits a flat stone around eight feet in diameter where the dive schools take there customers on discover scuba dives. This dive was followed by two more dives one at a site named Tunnels and Caves depth 15m and then a site named Chapel, so named due to the ...
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My intro
Well I got bitten by the dive bug around 18 months ago, I took my OW certificate in May 2006, this October I decided to take the advanced diver certificate which I carried out in Cyprus, I did my wreck specialty on the Zenobia which is a fantastic wreck, over the next five year I would like to progress to instructor level and then semi retire to Cyprus, where I will be able to earn a few quid and enjoy life also Cyprus is only an hours flight from the red sea, a nice place to spend some time in ...
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