Hot and sticky!!!!!! Yuk! Come diving this weekend and cool off. We have a couple of spaces available on the boat for diving with the seals in the Farne islands this weekend.

This is some of the best diving in the UK if not the World. The seals are usually friendly and playful and if you play your cards right you can be lucky and get a whiskery seal kiss.

The seals are just part of the fantastic sea life both above and below water.  Bring your camera for great seal shots and also of the incredible birdlife on the islands.  There are large colonies of puffins, gannets and many other seabirds on these protected islands.

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We will be staying on the mainlaind each evening and then venturing out each day to dive different parts of the Farne islands.

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As if a trip to Komodo wasn’t enough we have added an option for staying on for a few days in Bali to do some extra diving.  The two not-to-be-missed dive sites are the wreck of a liberty ship in Tulamben Bay and the recently discovered Giant Sunfish (Mola mola) cleaning station.

The libertyships were made very quickly, some of them in less than 6 weeks, and were rushed into service during the second world war in order to replace all the shipping sunk by U-boats. The one we will be diving is very conveniently at rest just off the beach at Tulamben. It starts fairly shallow but slopes down to about 30mt. It has become an artificial reef and is famous in the area for the profusion of life that can be found on, in and around it.

The visibility is usually very good so it is possible to get some great diver and wreck shots.

The Mola mola is a very strange looking fish. (sorry Mola mola but it’s true). It is an oceanic wanderer that spends its time eating jellyfish and sunbathing on the surface of the sea. It is vaguely related to the puffer fish but is most noticable for its size, an average sunfish  weighs 2200lbs (1000kg) which would take a lot of nutrionally poor jellyfish to keep running.

Normally found out at sea it has recently been discovered that the molas come on to the reef at Padang Bai,  Mola - Mola Point, to be cleaned by the reef fish. We will be there waiting for them!

There are two spaces available for the Komodo trip.

The BBC reports that a woman in Dorset was stunned when she found a seahorse in her garden

Despite being three miles inland Karen Warr found a Spiny seahorse in her garden. She scooped up the tiny sea creature with a fish slice (!) and put it in water after spotting it on her path at her home in Chickerell, Weymouth.

Staff at the town’s Sea Life Centre think the seahorse, who has been named Pegasus, was dropped by a seagull.

Pegasus is doing well and will be introduced into the centre’s breeding program and released into the wild.

Mrs Warr said: “I screamed to my son ‘there’s a seahorse outside’.

“He said ‘what are you on mother?’.

“I picked it up, put it in some water and phoned the centre.

“They didn’t really believe me. I was so surprised to find it.”

Staff at the Sea Life Centre said seahorses can only survive outside of the water for a very short period of time and have very delicate skin.

We have added an extra weekend on the 18th and 19th of April so more people can get a chance to practise before their sea dives in Poole the following weekend.

It is also an ideal opportunity to do the first half of the Advanced Open Water course, finishing at Poole the following weekend.

we had a great trip

After this snowy winter we have organised  a live-aboard November Red Sea trip to top you up with enough sunshine and warm diving to get you through next winter. We will be on the  boat M/V Superior which, as its name suggests, is a top quality boat. We already have a couple of bookings. If you would like to book or are thinking about it please do not hesitate to give us a call or drop us an e-mail. info@e-scuba.co.uk

020 7381 5000 (4 lines)

Komodo…deposits needed.

As we shed of those winter woollies it is time to think of daffodils, cavorting lambs, cherry blossom and GOING DIVING!  The UK Calendar is ready so check your diary and start booking. We have arranged  lots of dives this year. There are plenty of dives for training at different levels  as well as dives for just having fun.

A number of diveboats and Dive schools are no longer around so it is likely that these trips will fill up fast….get on the phone and book now.

02073815000

Our August Red Sea trip is already 75% full and it is only just March.

This trip is will combine diving a mixture of wrecks and reefs plus a visit to Ras Mohammed.

As we we have our own instructors aboard the trip is suitable for all levels of diver.

We will be doing an exciting mixture of reefs and a selection of wrecks including the fabulous Thistlegorm and also visiting the World famous dive site of Ras Mohammed

I booked the August trip as it is the busiest time of year from a fish-life point of view, they are usually many more fish at this time and are all busy breeding, fighting and eating.

We also have a  November trip is then also is a good time to go, the water is still warm and pleasant with plenty to see whereas in the UK the clocks will have changed and it will be getting dark and cold!

The August trip will be on the luxurious Blue Horizon  and the cost is £1049. Book early as in todays economy the boats can not afford to hold spaces for long without a deposit. A £300 deposit is all that is needed.

Check out the galleries fom previous trips of the marine life  and of the wrecks if you need convincing