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12 Oct 2007 Seaventures, Mabul Seaventures, Mabul Date 12 October 2007 Just finished a few days diving Sipadan, one of the worlds best dive islands. I stayed on a converted oil rig rooted / anchored (I'm not sure what the word is!) just off the island of Mabul about 30m
03 May 2007 bedouin divers dahab Bedouin Divers, Dahab Date 3 May 2007 A fine place to choose to dive from. Hospitable and very cost effective at only €14 per night including breakfast and €16 per dive Their website Dives with Ahmed at Bedouin
23 Apr 2007 Why this isnt myspace Why this isn't My Space Date 23 April 2007 Your text here... Why it is difficult to read a My Space page
21 Feb 2007 East coast reccy East coast reccy Date 21 February 2007 We took a very early start from Sheffield to get up past Newcastle before the morning rush hour. Tank goodness Mick was driving! Beadnell We headed up to Beadnell, just south of the Farnes Islands to research new div
08 Jun 2006 IDC day 4 IDC day 4 Date 8 June 2006 Thursday was to be a lie-in with a 08:30 start, but not for those of us who went out for beer instead of homework so had to get up early to do it. There was a minor panic when I realised my subject didn’t exist
07 Jun 2006 IDC day 3 IDC day 3 Date 7 June 2006 The day started in the water again with Open Water presentations and a Search and Recovery workshop. I had hover from OW4 and hovering from PPB - NOT to be confused! I made a complete fluff by starting off too far from my ââ
06 Jun 2006 IDC day 2 IDC day 2 Date 6 June 2006 Another 08:00 start with briefings for confined water and then a early morning dip. Everyone started the day tired but the water session was fantastic. We walked from the shop to the beach and split into two groups to do confine
05 Jun 2006 IDC day 1 IDC day 1 Date 5 June 2006 I flew from Doncaster at midday on Sunday with a handful of others. We arrived at the dive shop just in time to greet our fellow students as they returned from a fun dive - one of the benefits of an earlier flight. We said Hi!,
01 Apr 2005 Coral Sky Divers Coral Sky Divers, Perhentian Kecil, Malaysia Date April 2005 Heaven, I'm in heaven... Our visit to Long Beach on Perhentian Kecil was live affirming and will remain with me always. We found Coral Sky Divers on the internet and dropped them an email. Erika
23 Mar 2005 Maries 100th dive Maries 100th dive Date 23 March 2005 cake alan and marie Celebration Marie did her 100th dive today and the staff made her a cake to celebrate! I've still a long way to go to get to three figures but celebrated along with her.
19 Mar 2005 Borneo Divers Borneo Divers on Mabul Date 19 March 2005 Early start from Tawau but what a destination! Borneo Divers picked us up in the mini van from the hotel and took us to Semporna. Enroute we stopped at the airport to pick up a couple of people and
19 Dec 2004 stressed and rescued (2) stressed and rescued Date 19 December 2004 This morning we did exams in Stress and Rescue and then hot-finned it to the swimming pool to practice some of our stress and rescue techniques for this afternoon we were to be evaluated on them in the open sea.
17 Dec 2004 stressed and rescued stressed and rescued Date 17 December 2004 We put ourselves under stress today. I was deliberate, but it wasn't nice at the same time. Getting a little stressed underwater is OK if it is spotted and someone can calm down, but if it isn't and something els