PROTARAS.CYPRUS. Scuba Diving.for Friendly Fish.

Advantages: Definately the best side of the island for Diving.
Disadvantages: None except it goes really quiet in the winter.

...and sandy, the sea slopes gently, no rocks like Paphos area, but thats another story. Sun beds lay along the sand, but it wasn't too busy in October. The ideal time for Scuba Diving I would say. On the main part of the beach were a couple of sea-sport sun shelters, where you could book most of the sporting activities, these were constantly busy. Parascending was one of our favourite, the views from the top were fantastic. First my partner Chirs went up, while I took photos from the boat. They didn't charge for me to come along for the ride. From where I was sitting the parachute looked like a speck in the blue sky, it certainly reached great heights. I decided then, that I would have a go. I would recommend anyone to try this, it's easy, comfortable and safe. Water sk-ing, jet ski-ing, banana boating, are great fun but you can...

elinor.z 01.12.2006 (04.12.2006) · Read review
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Review of Protaras (Dive Sites)

Capernwray scuba diving site

Advantages: Good land facilities and attraction for the regular diver
Disadvantages: Needs better novice area

...Only visited couple of times but both times they seemed to be a lack of friendliness from the staff, although the facilities where better than some other sites I had visited. But no real save control practises seemed to being in place just a unmanned telephone near the water and for the money charged a better system should be in place. Especially with the amount of technology available in the market place these days. The entry exit points are quite restrictive and can be really busy especially with students and dive schools using the area close to the slip way. Although the underwater attraction are good in deeper areas. The novice area is spoilt with the two training platforms located in the narrowest point and the only safe natural route to the slip way exit point (for a novice diver) . It really puzzels me why this area is used...

Mysterydiver 01.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Capernwray Diving and Leisure

Recreational Scuba Diving

Advantages: Relaxing, amazing and awe-inspiring
Disadvantages: Can be costly

...When I first travelled to Montserrat on field work, I had the opportunity to go scuba diving. My PhD supervisor is a keen diver, and as he was going to dive while we were out there, it was an opportunity for me to try it. As I have always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, I went for it! Initially I tried a resort dive, to see if I enjoyed it and felt comfortable with it. It would be pointless me doing a full course if I felt unhappy and frightened. The resort dive consists of a short pool session, where you are shown how to use your equipment and certain emergency procedures like, how to empty to your mask and how to share air. The second part is a guided dive in the sea. you are fully supervised by your instructor and shown the reefs in dive spot. I loved it! Within 2 minutes of getting in the water, I was swimming past...

chachaqueen 14.10.2002 · Read review
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Scuba Diving at Cozumel Island Mexico

Advantages: Crystal clear warm water, large variety of fish
Disadvantages: Mexico is not exactly next door to Britain!

...I first tried scuba diving when I was 17 in the local swimming pool. The scuba diving club were holding an open day and I decided to give it a try along with a friend I’d met at the swimming pool whilst part of the life saving club. (I intended to get summer work as a lifeguard.) It was great fun, but as I was in full time education, there was no way I could afford the gear required! My next scuba dive was also in a pool, while I was working as a lifeguard. We used to use scuba equipment to clean the pool to save having to come up for air!!! But then I went to Mexico for my honeymoon last August and I finally got to scuba dive somewhere other than a pool! I even got my husband to come with me and he loved it too. We stayed on Cozumel island which is a little island south east of Cancun. The hotel was literally...

joannavos 14.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Mexico (Dive Sites)

Scuba School

Advantages: Great staff, excellent teaching methods, beautiful marine life
Disadvantages: The walk from school to Beach!

...or totally new to the experience. Taster Sessions Every day at 12.30, guests of the hotel were able to take part in ?Taster Sessions? which are great for people who have never tried scuba diving and would like to see what it is all about. Although this is only done in the pool, meaning that you will not get to see any of the fantastic marine life, it is still a great chance to see how you get on with all the new equipment and will at least give you some sort of idea of whether scuba diving is for you. Best of all, its free so even if you don?t like it, you haven?t lost anything and at least you can say you gave it a go! Introductory Dive During an Introductory Dive, you will be taken (with an Instructor) to depths of about 5 metres where you will get to experience some breathtaking marine life. There is a house reef onsite at the Hilton...

daylehall 29.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sinai Dive Club

Come dive with me

Advantages: Efficient operation
Disadvantages: Not always the cheapest but good value

...Tony Backhurst Scuba Travel has certainly earned the right to use the words "award winning" when it comes to organising diving holidays and in particular liveaboard diving holidays as it has scooped the 2005 Diver Awards Tour Operator of the Year Award and one of its boat Hurricane has scooped top Liveaboard of the Year and these awards are not a one off as it has been the second year in a row that it has scooped both prizes which are voted for my the diving public. My trip in March to the Red Sea was the first time I had used them mainly because they do tend to be a little more expensive than other providers and I'm tightfisted however on this occasion I had little choice as they were the only UK based provider who had a boat doing the itinerary that I wanted on the dates I was able to travel. The company offers both liveaboard...

atticusuk 12.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Tony Backhurst Scuba

Scuba, my main obession!

Advantages: internationally recognised
Disadvantages: has a bad rep in some areas

...As you maybe able to tell I like scuba! Its somewhere in almost all of my online identities, and has been since late 1999 when I originally qualified as an Open Water Diver. I got in to the idea of diving when I was 13, but didn't get a chance to try it until I was 14 when I was given a try dive for my birthday (little did my parents know what they had done!), and immediately signed up for the full Open Water course. O.K so I'm PADI trained. PADI is the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, PADI is originally an American company which is now recognised all around the world, because its training standards are just that, standard no matter where you are in the world. The basic entry level course is called Open Water or if you are under the age of 10 you can do a range of courses designed to introduce you to...

scuba_angel 15.01.2005 (09.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors)

Dive In At The Deep End!

Advantages: Easy acess to hotel, coral reefs onsite, friendly staff, good prices
Disadvantages: None

...diving equipment on it can make it easier than stairs. As you enter through the main entrance, there are two rooms on your left ? this is where we did our paperwork/theory sections and watched the video section of the course work each day. They had a section behind the counter which passed into the gear set up area where you found the masks, suits and equipment hire area. They also had a cold drinking water machine which was certainly needed after all the diving as I found it made me thirsty! Courses Scuba Diver Course The first course open to people to try is the Scuba Diver Course which is 2 days of skills and an open water sea dive. When we did our Open Water, there was another woman who completed the Discover Diving and she sat in on our course to complete hers. You get a certificate to state that you have completed this course...

Jamie73 01.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sinai Dive Club

Mozambique - world class diving without the crowds

Advantages: Good diving, WHALE SHARKS!; not too crowded
Disadvantages: Infrastructure still developing, food overpriced

...radar and so isn't too crowded at the moment. It's rather lacking in infrastructure - but the basics are there. There are a number of lodges plus backpacker accommodation. I stayed in one of the pricier places (about £50 a night) - it was fairly basic for the price, but clean. The food in Tofo is overpriced in some places, and you have to walk along the beach at night to get places. My favourite place for food was actually at Tofo Scuba, the dive centre I dived with. There's an airport at Inhambane, near Tofo, with flights from Johannesburg and within Mozambique, making it fairly easy to get there. Otherwise it's a few hours drive from SA. You can get a visa when you arrive (take SA rand or US dollars). There are 3 dive centres in Tofo. Tofo Scuba was well set up and organised. Kit was allocated if required, otherwise you could store...

cathy_m80 24.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mozambique (Dive Sites)

Excellent diving in the Maldives

Advantages: Warm water, clear, lots of life
Disadvantages: Some dives not that exciting

...I recently did a dive trip to the Maldives, not a destination I would have planned on as I've always thought of it as a honeymoon destination. I travelled on a liveaboard boat, doing a circuit of dive sites around North and South Male atolls and Ari Atoll. Water temperature was mostly 28-30C, with mostly visibility of 15-25m. The weather was generally very warm, and fairly humid. Some of the dives were phenomenal. The highlight was the dive at Manta Point (though it's best to point out that there isn't just one but several manta points around the Maldives, partly according to season). We had 20+ mantas swooping in just over our heads, hovering and observing us as we observed them! Our second dive there wasn't as good but still around 10 mantas checking us out over the cleaning station. There were several other drift dives that were...

cathy_m80 27.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Maldives (Dive Sites)