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2019 Paddle Round the Pier
Oyster Diving will be hosting the recreational diving for Paddle-Round-the-Pier on 6th and 7th July 2019, Europe’s largest FREE beach festival, raising £1,000’s for charities.
Each year around 50,000 watersports enthusiasts descend on Brighton and Hove beach for a weekend of fun, competition and entertainment. A few of the many events include live music, a kids stage, plus lots of watersports events including scuba diving, surfing, kayaking, stand up paddle boarding, kite surfing and windsurfing. Oyster Diving, the Brighton based 5 star PADI Dive Centre will be looking after this year’s scuba diving activities which includes:
Trial Dives
Oyster Diving’s instructors will be conducting trial dives in the 20m outdoor demo pool and anyone aged 10 years plus is welcome to come and have a go.
Dive Around the Pier
Oyster have arranged to a boat dive around the old West Pier on Sunday 7th July at time at 12.30pm. The dive is open to anyone who is open water diver or higher and dived within the last 12 months. The boat will meet at Oyster Diving’s offices on Shoreham Harbour. Divers can hire kit on the day or get air fills.
You can find further details on Oyster Diving’s Paddle Round the Pier web page.
2019 Underwater Summer Games
For people who want a real laugh, come and enter the Underwater Summer Games, Oyster’s annual charity event in aid of the Scuba Trust that takes place the same weekend. This year the Mayor of Brighton & Hove has offered to open the games where divers can compete in tournaments like:
- Fastest to set up their dive kit
- 20m tired diver tow
- 20m underwater sprint – no fins
- 40m surface sprint – with fins
- 20m underwater sprint – no fins
- Fastest buddy pair to swap kit underwater
- Underwater discus
- Underwater javelin
Anyone who is a qualified diver can enter, just bring your swimwear, certification and towel. As there are limited places please register your place for free on Oyster Diving’s Underwater Summer Games page.
The Scuba Trust helps those with disabilities and their friends experience the joy and freedom of scuba diving. The aim of the Scuba Trust is to provide a level playing field by arranging training and obtaining funding to subsidise applicants who, due to disability, encounter difficulty in finding suitable instruction and who may face a greater outlay for training and recreational diving after certification.
For more information about Oyster Diving visit their website by clicking here.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
Free Octopus with every purchase of a SCUBAPRO regulator system
Just in time for the spring season, divers can save money with the FREE OCTOPUS SPRING PROMOTION! Until July 31st SCUBAPRO offers an Octopus for free
with every purchase of a regulator system!
Get a free S270 OCTOPUS with purchase of these combinations:
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with A700
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with S620Ti
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with D420
MK25 EVO Din mit S620Ti-X
Get a free R105 OCTOPUS with purchase of the following combinations:
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with G260
MK25 EVO or MK17 EVO with S600
SCUBAPRO offers a 30-year first owner warranty on all regulators, with a revision period of two years or 100 dives. All SCUBAPRO regulators are of course certified according to the new European test standard EN250-2014.
Available at participating SCUBAPRO dealers. Promotion may not be available in all regions. Find an authorized SCUBAPRO Dealer at scubapro.com.
More information available on www.scubapro.com.
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