Reef clean ups and turtle watch

This year Absolute Scuba has become an SSI EcoLogical dive centre. This means we will help to maintain and promote the healthy eco system that we all need to live a healthy lifestyle.

We will:

 Instruct all boat and shop employees as to proper safety and environmental care techniques

 Conduct and advertise beach and dive site clean ups

 Ensure all briefings to divers contain advice on environmentally sound diving practices

 Provide recycling points throughout the dive resort premises and vessels

 Ensure there is no line fishing or collection of any organisms

 Ensure there is no spear fishing

 Provide clearly marked dustbins for waste on boats including cigarette butts, and dispose of receptacles appropriately

 Use purpose placed moorings where possible

 Avoid takings divers or open water students who have not yet demonstrated proficiency in buoyancy directly over corals or other fragile marine environments or habitats

 Participate in local environmental projects

 Report all whale shark & turtle sightings to local recognized data collection points

 Encourage no feeding of fish

 Discourage customers from applying sunscreen before diving

 Run environmental awareness programs for local schoolchildren and communities

 Conduct regular reef checks or surveys

 Offer ECO Logical diver training to our customers

So look out for the reef clean up dates on the website (coming soon) and join us, you never know what you will find underwater as one of our dive controllers, Sean, found this week, when he came across a rice cooker sitting on the reef!

New website design

After over 6 months of waiting, we are starting to redesign the scuba website. It's taken a lot of hard work from behind the scenes, thanks to all involved. It's still not completely finished and even now, I still find typos everyday, which means I must have read the bloody thing 20-30 times by now! If only we could have used a professional web builder as first was discussed, but hey ho!

Anyway, take a look around, there's plenty to read (which is one of the problems, we wanted less text and more photos and we've ended up with MORE text and LESS photos)!

And, if you find a mistake.............it's not my fault. LOL

New year, new hobby?

Have you ever considered scuba diving as a past-time or hobby, or maybe you are already a diver but have plans to improve yourself with continued education in diving, or perhaps taking your diving to a professional level? Ever thought about Technical diving but never had the time or understanding of the skills involved?

Drop me an email through the website for further information about any diving course; we can answer most emails within 48 hours, but if you don't receive an answer by that time, then please send again.

Happy, safe diving for 2011.