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.

...check your confidence. The next day you can dive in the shallows. Graduating throughout the week to deeper waters. I was delighted that I was allowed to snorkel throughout the week while Chris was Scuba - Diving, all my equipment was supplied by the school free of charge. Other Sites To Visit. FIG TREE BAY is one of the prettiest Diving areas and popular with most of the Divers in the area. In fact Diving schools in Cyprus often take their pupils to this site. Travelling quite a distance, especially if the weather isn't so good on the West or South side of the island. However the ultimate Dive would be to the Zenobia, a Swedish roll-on-roll-off ferry, that went down in June 1980 off the fishing harbour in Larnaca. She was on her maiden voyage. This is in quite deep water, so only really experienced Divers can go to that...

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

...and shore based diving holidays around the world including the Maldives, Thailand, Galapagos and of course the Red Sea. Booking The best way to select your holiday is through the website. This is extremely well set out with pictures of the entire fleet on the homepage which click through to a description of the boat and links to the itineraries for the year ahead as well as a news section and the online scuba equipment store which is a relatively new addition. If it is your first liveaboard holiday there is a useful section detailing what to expect so that you can decide whether it or a land based holiday is better suited to your needs and there is also a section detailing the type of diving available in each location and the skill level required so that you can ensure your diving experience is appropriate to the holiday you plan to take...

atticusuk 12.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Tony Backhurst Scuba

Dive deep and retrieve these seal sticks

Advantages: Good aid to water confidence
Disadvantages: none

...We have some Zoggs seal sticks at work. They are amongst our swimming tools, aids, toys. These swimming aids are suitable for children aged 3+. These seal sticks are a dive stick aimed at encouraging children to gain water confidence. These sticks are 19x3x4 cm, weighs 0.272 kg. These sticks usually come in a carry bag set of 4 different coloured seal sticks blue, green, red and yellow .Each one has a round blue head with black eyes and mouth markings at one end of the tubular stick. At the other end is a black seals foot. Each one has Zoggs printed in black around the coloured tube. They are made of a smooth plastic. The tube is a softer a more flexible plastic than the head and foot. These sticks are quite durable. These seals are weighted so when thrown into the swimming pool they will sing to the bottom and stand...

mumsymary 02.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Zoggs Seal Dive Sticks

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

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)

Scuba Diving in Tobago

Advantages: Fantastic unspoilt reefs
Disadvantages: Need a car to get around

...It was October. We couldn't face the Red Sea again - and despite the bombings in Sharm there weren't any good bargains. We'd already spent too much money on other holidays last year so we wanted 'cheap and different'. Tobago was the solution and it worked out really well. We booked with Regal Dive - www.regaldive.co.uk - who flew us over with excel airlines. I was nervous - there are some dreadful reviews of that airline doing the rounds. Honestly - no frills but not bad at all. We stayed half the time at the Toucan Inn and half at the Inn on the Bay and we dived with the World of Watersports dive centre which is based at the Hilton. World of Watersports is an excellent dive centre. The equipment is of a high standard, the guys who run the boats and the divemasters are funny, friendly but always attentive to health and safety...

koshkha 11.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of General: Trinidad and Tobago