Whats Diving in the Dive Centre....?

Its that time of year when we start thinking about our Annual Halloween Fancy Dress Dive!!

The dive is on Thursday 27th October meeting at Babbacombe beach at 19:00 or at the Dive Centre by 18:30 for kit hire etc. 

As ever there will be a competition for the best fancy dress which will be voted on via our website after the event! The aim is for fancy dress that you can dive in or at least try to dive in!! Take a look here at some of the previous ideas  http://www.teigndivingcentre.co.uk/index.php?option=com_expgallery&page=show_cat&cid=16&Itemid=99999

The dive costs £5 per diver and all proceeds go to DDRC!! Tea Coffee and hot drinks will be available at the beach.

Drop us an email to let us know your coming and join in the fun!! 

Over the last couple of weeks the Diving Centre, mainly through Karel has been running an intensive Open Water Diver Course for a local film company, Realm Pictures. 

This has been a really interesting project for us to be involved in as the team at Realm Pictures  were learning new skills so they could produce a film set entirely underwater!! The Course was also required so that the Team could shoot some footage and effects in Pinewood Studios world famous U Stage. In doing this, and to keep their blog up to date they shot some great footage of their training both in the pool, kindly supplied by Sea & Sea, and also at our local Open Water training site. Check out their blog and website here http://www.theunderwaterrealm.com blog week 21!!

Take a look at The Underwater Realm site to keep up with this filming project and show your support for the project!!

I know we had a great time with the Realm Pictures Team making a conpressed course great fun for all involved from our end, especially Karel who has a bit of a starring role in the blog footage!!

We will follow the project with interest, and look forward to seeing the film!!

There are some great new products on the market these days, but how do you know if the slightly different or new products will be any good for your diving??

Well at the Centre we are now offering some products for test diving!! To date we have ScubaPro products including, SeaWing Nova fins,  A700 Regulator, Galileo Computers, X Force BCD and more!! We also have Fourth Element Arctic under suits with a full range of sizes!

As a DUI Dealer we also have DUI CF 200 and CNSE suits for test diving, a chance to find out why DUI suits are the best available! 

 

Date for your Diaries......! On Friday 18th March from 6pm onwards we are having a gathering at the centre for the Official Opening of the New Shop! We will have promotions running that week and Discounts on courses and product purchased during the evening!! Keep your eye out on our online shop: www.diveshoponline.co.uk for promotions and discounts! Hope to see you all there if not before :-)

Divers in Plymouth have enjoyed great vis over the past few days with 8m at Eastern Kings, 8-10m on the Glen Strathallen and the Elk.  The trip to the Elk was even better this morning when a pod of dolphinsa put in an appearance to almost escort the divers to the dive site :-)

Fingers crossed this great vis and flat sea conditions will be around for a while.  We have lots of dives coming up through out March and the schedule is on the Plymouth calander.  Next weekend we have the JEL on Friday, the Rosehill and Scylla on Saturday and the Maine on Sunday.

To book onto any of the dives give us a call or drop us an email, hope to see you all in water soon.

Happy Bubbling :-)

Even though it may have been rather chilly this weekend, divers had great vis on the Persier and Glen Strathallen which was around 6-8m with lots of conger eels on the Persier and a Thornback Ray on the Glen Strathallen which unfortunately i missed i was too busy looking for the Tompot Blenny in the back of the boiler :-( Oh well there is always next time.

As the vis is good at the mo why not make the most of it we have dives from Plymouth & Teignmouth this Sunday 19th December, so contact the centre to book up.

 Hope to see you in the water soon, happy bubbling :-)

Tuesday December the 7th at TCYC will be our last club night of 2010 except of course for the Christmas party!!!

December sees us having a quiz night written by 2 of our Instructors who will also be hosting it !! a good fun evening with prizes for the winners and a few pints available for those who wish to enjoy !!

Hopeto see you all there!! 20:00hrs at the Yacht Club 

We had a lovely dive last night at Babbacombe.  The Viz was surprisingly good at 4/5 metres.  We spent over an hour under water and there was lots of life including 3 or 4 John Dory's patrolling the bay.  If you fancy joining us for a Thursday night dive ring the centre.

We have updated our Blog now to allow website users to comment and join in the "Blogging". You do need to be a registered user to comment on articles on the site.

Currently we only have comments available on the Blog however we are looking at comments on other parts of the website for instance on the Dive Sites  section here.

Let us know your thoughts?? 

Tuesday night was our monthly club night and as ever a great turn out of over 30 people!! This months speaker was Terry Griffiths, a local diver and very keen photographer!!

 Terry has spent several years diving local sites particularly Babbacombe where he can be found for many hours regularly exploring and last night he showed us some of his amazing photo's of the bay!! I think it is fair to say that most of us didnt realise there was so much in Babbacombe bay!!

 Many thanks again to Terry and keep your eyes open in Babbacombe next time your down there!! 

Quick reminder about the Christmas Party on 17th December at 18:30 at the Pickwick as ever! Tickets on sale for £20 each.