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Oceanic Equipment Testing - Revised date

So our first event had to be postponed due to flooding! Still want an opportunity to try before you buy? Then why not join us at the pool on Tuesday 7th February in the evening when we will have a range of diving equipment for you to try. Places must be pre booked with the Dive Centre.

Every participant will receive a £15 voucher to spend in the Dive Centre on equipment purchases of £70 or more. Alternatively convert the voucher into a 15% discount on any Oceanic equipment purchases made at the event or by 16:00 on 8th February.

7th February is also an opportunity to try sidemount. Very limited spaces available so book now!

Holidays - July 2012 - Marsa Shagra

Once again we are returning to Marsa Shagra, Egypt for a shore based unlimited diving holiday.   The resort has a wonderful house reef and easy access to Elphinstone Reef.  So there are opportunities to spot a wide range of marine life including; sharks and turtles, dolphins, octopus, eels and nudibranchs plus a host of beautiful reef and pelagic fish, anemones and sponges.  The trip runs from 4th to 11th July and includes flights, transfers, 7 nights fully inclusive accommodation (Madyafa en suite twin share) with soft drinks, 6 day unlimited house reef dive pack. All this for only £990 per person. Spaces for this trip are limited so if you are interested and want further information or to reserve your space, contact the Dive Centre.

October 2012 - Project Shark MY Blue Melody Red Sea

Thinking of joining us for a liveaboard trip with Blue O Two to the Red Sea with visits to Big Brother, Little Brother, Daedulus Ree

FEBRUARY TRAINING COURSES

Training Courses to tempt you are:

Open Water Referral:4th and 11th

Open Water Diver:4th, 11th, 18th and 19th

Advanced Open Water:18th and 19th

Enriched Air Diver: 26th

Equipment Specialist: 26th

Dry Suit, Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver, National Geographic Diver, Digitial Underwater Photographer, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigator -18th

We have a range of dry suits in the school and course prices for Open Water include diving in a Dry Suit. Dry Suits are available for all our courses however additional training may be required first.

ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER COURSE FREE

Complete 5 speciality diver courses with us and receive Advanced Open Water Diver Certification free. This is a saving of over 25% compared to booking Advanced Open Water Diver and then booking 5 speciality diver courses. Package includes Deep Diver, Underwater Navigation, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Dry Suit and Boat Diver cost £800 instead of £1,075 a saving of 25.6%. Other options to replaced Dry Suit and Boat Diver are available.

DIVEMASTER COURSE FREE

Complete Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver, Rescue Diver, 5 specialities with us and your receive your Divemaster Internship training free. You only pay for your manuals.

OUR HOLIDAYS FOR 2012

Details of our holidays for 2012 are set out above.

DIVING FOR THE COMING MONTHS

SELSEY LIFE BOAT DIVES AND BOAT SCHEDULE

The boat schedule can be found by going to Dive Schedule and then clicking on Boat Schedule. Details of diving at the Lifeboat Station and our marshalled dives can be found by going to Dive Schedule and going to the bottom of the page.

Worried about being cold? Then why not treat yourself to a Dry Suit Course so that you can learn to dive in a dry suit. For details of our next Dry Suit Course see above the course costs just £150.

EVENTS SO FAR

17th September 2011- International Beach Clean Up Day

The wind howled and the rain poured which hampered beach clean up efforts! However 14 divers still got in to clean up underwater with maximum dive time being 40 minutes and shortest being ...3. Viz was a stunning 25 cms which did not aid efforts to find the rubbish. Despite this 10kgs of rubbish was collected from around the Lifeboat Station on the morning dive. Afternoon dive did not go ahead as weather and conditions declined further and we were driven off the beach!! During the day we did manage to raise just under £200 to be split between PADI AWARE and RNLI Selsey. Well done to everyone who turned up and perservered and all who helped us raise funds.

We are now looking at dates when we might rerun this event so we can clean up properly under the Lifeboat Station, in addition to cleaning up at West Sands, Selsey. So please watch this space for more details. Now if someone could please just do something about the weather........

June 2011 - St Abbs and Farne Islands

For our return trip to St Abbs and Farne Islands we stayed and dived with Marine Quest, Eyemouth. This provided us with opportunities to dive the Marine Reserve, plus reefs and wrecks south of St. Abbs for four days. We were gifted with very good viz for the Glenmire and during our dives spotted dahlia anemones, urchins, starfish, pollack and were lucky enough to dive with the seals.

Photograph courtesy of Barry Jarvis as a memento of the trip.

May 2010 - Scapa Flow

In Scapa Flow we were joined by the rest of the party for a weeks diving with Diving Cellar from the John L (expertly skippered by James). An opportunity to enjoy dives on the Dresden, Karlsruhe, Koln, Brummer, Kron Prinz Wilhelm plus F2 and Barge and V83. Viz was around 10 metres on most of the dive sites so an opportunity for some wonderful wreck diving. A couple of days were overcast making some of the sites a little dark so you needed a good torch. Our final day was perfect sun shining, little wind, first dive on the Koln followed by lunch close to the Barrel of Butter and swimming with seals then for the second dive the Dresden. Could not have been better wonderful diving, good accommodation and boat and excellent skipper.

April 2010 - Oban

With blue skies we set off for Oban to dive with Puffin Divers at Oban for 2 days. For our first day weather was overcast and windy so two dives on the Breda, stern and then bow with viz around 5 metres. For our second day the Ronda and then the Thesis. Sun shining and less wind so an enjoyable trip up the Sound of Mull. First dive the Ronda in 15 metres plus viz with sun streaming down. A brief surface interval and then cross the Sound of Mull to dive the Thesis. Viz on the Thesis 10 metres but now sun. However whilst on the surface the entertainment of watching the local seals. A wonderful days diving! We then all set off for Scapa flow.

September - Marsa Shagra - September 2009

6 days of unlimited diving meant that 14 very happy people departed for their holiday in the Red Sea. Day one was interesting as we seemed to have taken the Selsey wind with us (Northerly F6/7). This reduced viz to under 2 metres - not a problem for us but the guides where not happy! However wind died off and viz then rapidly improved to up to 40 metres on the further reaches of the house reef and Elphinstone. Most of our time was spent diving on the extensive and beautiful house reefs, including for a lucky few the chance to dive with dolphins.. We spent one afternoon searching for the dugong without success however we did find turtles and guitar sharks. We also managed a day trip to Abu Ghusson for some wreck diving. By popular request we will be returning next year.

19th September 2009- International Beach Clean Up Day

Once again we combined our efforts to clean up both above and below water. Above the water clean up operations were combined with Manhood Wildlife Trust in order to maximise the area covered. We collected 9 bags of rubbish including fishing weights and line, plastic and plastic bags, pieces of plate glass, scaffolding poles, bicycle, rubber gloves and BBQ grills! Afterward there was a BBQ in East Beach car park. Thank you to everyone who made this such an enjoyable event.

March - Safaga Red Sea - March 2009

We left the sping sunshine behind us and departed for the Red Sea.  Once again we were based at The Menaville and dived with Menadive. The weather was wonderful, if a bit breezy. As usual beautiful sunshine and time to relax between dives. Plenty to see including Napoleon Wrasse, Giant Morays, Giant Pufferfish, Octopus, Arabian Angelfish, manta rays and much more. Visibility was above 20m on every dive and the reefs and coral gardens were spectacular. Dives included Panorama Reef, and The Salem Express. Also an opportunity this time to try out easy diving using a DPV. The boat crews and dive staff ensured that we had an enjoyable and memorable holiday. We brought back plenty of photographs and our video is  available to see at the dive centre.