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Enjoy free nights at Grenada’s True Blue Bay Resort with Dive Worldwide
Stay at the True Blue Bay Resort, a small family-run boutique, diver-dedicated resort on the south coast of Grenada, and enjoy great savings of up to £480 per couple. Various ‘free night’ offers are available, including: stay 7 nights, pay for 6; stay 10 nights, pay for 8; and stay 14 nights, pay for 11, for guests booking by 30 June 2016, and travelling any time between now and 14 December 2016.
Overlooking the spectacular True Blue Bay, the Resort offers a choice of colourful rooms, suites and luxurious villas. All are equipped with air-conditioning, en-suite bathroom, cable TV and Wifi. The Dodgy Dock restaurant is popular with locals and tourists, offering varied cuisine in a relaxed and comfortable setting. Other facilities include a swimming pool, day spa, cookery classes, small children’s playground, kayaks, hobie-cat sailing and yacht charters.
The resident dive operators are Aquanauts Grenada, a professional company offering daily boat dives and courses for all, from Bubblemaker (from eight years old) to speciality courses such as Deep Diver and SDI Solo Diver, great for photographers. Aquanauts Tech Diving offer TDI training.
There is a wide choice of local dive sites for all experience levels and for every taste – be it shallow coral gardens, unspoiled reefs or interesting wrecks. Grenada is renowned for its large portfolio of wrecks, the most famous being the Bianca C, dubbed the ‘Titanic of the Caribbean’, while San Juan and King Mitch attract plenty of pelagic species, including nurse sharks.
Diving highlights within the marine park include Dragon Bay, Happy Hill and the Sculpture Park – all with plenty of marine life to observe. Expect moray eels, lobster, eagle rays and turtles. Experienced divers can enjoy a day trip to Isle de Rhonde (weather permitting), famous for its steep walls covered in colourful sponges and plenty of pelagic marine life encounters.
Terms of Special Offer:
Book by 30th June 2016
Travel by 14th December 2016
Special Offer Price: from £1,450pp sharing, including return international flights from London, 7 nights’ B&B accommodation, 6 dives, and airport transfers with Dive Worldwide, saving £160 per couple. Alternatively, 14 nights cost from £2,085pp sharing (saving £480 per couple).
For more information, visit www.diveworldwide.com or call +44 (0)1962 302087.
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TRAVEL BLOG: Jeff Goodman Dives SOMABAY, Part 3
Today we are diving one of the outer reefs from an inflatable. As we reach the bottom, a reef octopus eases its way into the cover of a small crack in the coral while displaying it’s incredible ability to change colour. They are arguably one of the most charismatic of reef dwellers and it is always exciting for me to simply hover and watch. I would have spent longer and waited for it to come and investigate me, but as dive time is limited we wanted to move on and find a turtle.
The waters around Somabay are well protected and hold a rich variety of marine life. The reef edges are thriving colonies of coral and shoaling fish, while nearer the sea bed plenty of wildlife is still to be found.
Then we located the turtles. They are very used to divers and so show little concern when slowly approached. In fact occasionally one will come over to see what you are doing. There is always huge excitement when diving with a turtle. The shear thrill of sharing a moment with another species.
What a fantastic way to finish a wonderful few days diving and I would like to thank SOMABAY, ORCA DIVING and THE BREAKERS for making my stay such a good one.
I had a great time, with diving everyday either on the house reef or on one of the offshore reefs by inflatable or larger day boat. Orca diving provided high quality equipment and facilities while the staff were all very friendly and welcoming. The Breakers was right on the coast with nice rooms, good food and once again friendly staff making the whole trip a real pleasure.
Soma Bay covers an entire peninsula and is home to several resorts as well as residential compounds.
As well as scuba diving, Somabay caters for many other sports and activities, and so is perfect for families as well as individuals and/or groups. And of course there is always time to lay peacefully on the beach under the Egyptian sun.
Book your next Red Sea dive adventure with SOMABAY! For more information, visit www.somabay.com.
Stay at the Breakers Diving & Surfing Lodge when you visit! For more information, visit www.thebreakers-somabay.com.
Find out more about ORCA Dive Clubs at SOMABAY at www.orca-diveclubs.com/en/soma-bay-en.
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TRAVEL BLOG: Jeff Goodman Dives SOMABAY, Part 2
Day three of my trip to Somabay and we were spending the day on the Lady Christina and diving on the wreck of the Salem Express.
Diving wrecks for me is always one of mixed emotions. The excitement of diving a wreck is more than often tempered by the thought of loss of life when she sank. The Salem Express was a passenger ship and a roll-on/roll-off ferry travelling from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Safaga, Egypt. Most passengers were of poor class travelling home from their holidays while around 150 people were returning home from their pilgrimage to Mecca.
The ship struck a reef and sank within 20 minutes. Passengers were trapped below deck and the ship was filled with fear and panic.
The wreck area is strewn with personal belongings from the crew and passengers such as a transistor radio and a flat iron for clothes. A diver at sometime has put them in a prominent place to be seen.
Tragically only one life boat was launched while the others went down with the ship. More than 600 men, women and children lost their lives here.
It’s a stark reminder that the sea can be unforgiving and so when we dive on such wrecks we should do so with humble regard.
Returning to the surface, shoals of fish are gathered under our boat and seem to be welcoming us back into the light.
Back at the Breakers I sat in the dining area with a beer and a very good meal while my thoughts still remained with the day’s dive on the Salem Express.
Check in for part 3 tomorrow for Jeff’s last day of diving with Somabay on the off-shore reefs looking for turtles.
Book your next Red Sea dive adventure with SOMABAY! For more information, visit www.somabay.com.
Stay at the Breakers Diving & Surfing Lodge when you visit! For more information, visit www.thebreakers-somabay.com.
Find out more about ORCA Dive Clubs at SOMABAY at www.orca-diveclubs.com/en/soma-bay-en.
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