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Scubaverse.com’s new publication Dive Travel Adventures is available now!
Join us on some of the most spectacular and exciting Dive Travel Adventures worldwide!
Scubaverse.com is excited to announce the launch of our brand new printed premium quality quarterly publication, Dive Travel Adventures.
Packed full of incredible photography and first person travel experiences, Dive Travel Adventures will inspire you to put on your scuba gear and explore more of the underwater world. From amazing marine encounters to edge of your seat expeditions across the planet, Dive Travel Adventures offers you an insight into the hottest and coolest dive travel destinations the world has to offer. Get ready to tick some incredible Dive Travel Adventures off your wish list!
The Autumn 2018 edition of Dive Travel Adventures is available to pick up FREE from dive centres throughout the UK and Ireland now, so make sure you pick up your copy today. The printed edition of Dive Travel Adventures is available from the following outlets:
Anglesey Divers | Holyhead | Anglesey |
Lochaline Dive Centre | Lochaline | Argyll |
Puffin Dive Centre | Oban | Argyll |
Divecrew | Crowethorne | Berkshire |
Divestyle | Reading | Berkshire |
Slough Scuba Store | Slough | Berkshire |
Wraysbury Dive Centre | Wraysbury | Berkshire |
Scubaducks Dive Centre | Aylesbury | Buckinghamshire |
New Horizons Dive Centre | Macclesfield | Cheshire |
Atlantic Scuba | Falmouth | Cornwall |
Cornish Diving Centre | Falmouth | Cornwall |
Dive Newquay | Newquay | Cornwall |
Porthkerris Divers | Helston | Cornwall |
Aquaventures Dive Centre | Baltimore | County Cork |
Cork Dive Centre | Lehenagh Beg | County Cork |
Mevagh Dive Centre | Carrickart | County Donegal |
Waterworld Dive Centre | Castlegregory | County Kerry |
Aquaholics | Portstewart | County Londonderry |
Go Dive | Derby | Derbyshire |
Aquanauts | Plymouth | Devon |
Old Harbour Dive Centre | Weymouth | Dorset |
O’Three | Portland | Dorset |
Underwater Explorers | Portland | Dorset |
Flagship Scuba Diving | Sandycove | Dublin |
Lambay Diving | Rathcoole | Dublin |
Newhaven Scuba Centre | Newhaven | East Sussex |
Oyster Diving | Hove | East Sussex |
Diverse Scuba | Bulphan | Essex |
Nutty’s Dive Centre | Brentwood | Essex |
Orca Scuba Diving Academy | Basildon | Essex |
Frogs Born Dive Centre | Deeside | Flintshire |
Dive 90 | Cheltenham | Gloucestershire |
Aqualogistics | Stockport | Greater Manchester |
Aquatech Diving Centre | Stockport | Greater Manchester |
Dive Manchester | Manchester | Greater Manchester |
DiveLife | Manchester | Greater Manchester |
Andark Diving & Watersports | Southampton | Hamphire |
Ocean Turtle Diving | Basingstoke | Hamphire |
Triton Scuba | Portsmouth | Hamphire |
2DIVE4 | Bishops Stortford | Hertfordhsire |
Indepth Diving | Hertford | Hertfordhsire |
Planet Scuba | Bishops Stortford | Hertfordhsire |
Isle of Man Diving Holidays | The Underway | Isle of Man |
Island Divers | Cowes | Isle of Wight |
Blue Ocean Diving | Maidstone | Kent |
Aquatron Dive Centre | Glasgow | Lanarkshire |
Lomo Watersports | Glasgow | Lanarkshire |
Bolton Area Divers | Bolton | Lancashire |
Canary Divers | Blackburn | Lancashire |
Caperwray Diving Centre | Canforth | Lancashire |
Morcambe Area Divers | Morcambe | Lancashire |
Waterworld at the Delph | Chorley | Lancashire |
Stoney Cove | Stoney Stanton | Leicestershire |
Dive Wimbledon | London | London SW19 |
Big Squid | London | London SW4 |
Mike’s Dive Store | London | London W4 |
Ocean Leisure London | London | London WC2N |
Wirral Sports & Leisure | Birkenhead | Merseyside |
Edinburgh Dive Centre | Edinburgh | Midlothian |
National Diving & Activity Centre (NDAC) | Chepstow | Monmouthshire |
Christal Seas Scuba | Norwich | Norfolk |
Deep Blue Dive Centre | Whitley Bay | North Tyneside |
Overland Underwater | York | North Yorkshire |
Divemaster Scuba | Nottingham | Nottinghamshire |
Scapa Scuba | Stromness | Orkney |
Oxford Dive Centre | Oxford | Oxfordshire |
Vobster Quay | Radstock | Somerset |
The Diving Centre | Boldon | South Tyneside |
SDS Watersports | Sheffield | South Yorkshire |
Clubsub | Stoke-on-Trent | Staffordshire |
Diveline | Ipswich | Suffolk |
Midlands Diving Chamber | Rugby | Warwickshire |
Aquasport International | Solihull | West Midlands |
Scuba Shack | Bilston | West Midlands |
Academy Divers | Sowerby Bridge | West Yorkshire |
Blue Lagoon Diving & Leisure | Pontefract | West Yorkshire |
Otter Watersports | Bradford | West Yorkshire |
Robin Hood Watersports | Heckmondwike | West Yorkshire |
New outlets where you can pick up your FREE copy of Dive Travel Adventures will be announced soon. In addition to being available from dive centres, copies of Dive Travel Adventures will also be delivered to your door with selected orders from Fourth Element, AP Diving, O’Three, Otter Watersports and Robin Hood Watersports.
Going to DIVE 2018 at the Birmingham NEC later this month? Pick up a FREE copy at the show!
If you would like to view or download a digital copy of the Autumn 2018 edition of Dive Travel Adventures, you can do so here.
We hope you enjoy reading the first edition of Dive Travel Adventures! Let us know your thoughts on our new publication in the comments below.
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Would you like to stock Dive Travel Adventures? Email our marketing manager Sarah Tillbrook at sarah@scubaverse.com to find out how.
Are you a writer that can take amazing underwater photos and is interested in contributing articles for Dive Travel Adventures? Email our editor Jane Herbert at jane@scubaverse.com to find out more.
Blogs
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.
Blogs
TRAVEL BLOG: Jeff Goodman Dives SOMABAY, Part 1
For a week at the end of February I was invited to sample the diving with Orca Dive Club based at the Breakers Diving and Surfing Lodge by courtesy of SOMABAY.
Somabay covers an entire peninsula and is home to several resorts as well as residential compounds. Somabay caters for scuba diving as well as many other sports, including windsurfing, golf, sailing, go-carting, horse riding and many other activities.
All the activities are of a world-class standard and any or all of these can be booked directly from The Breakers.
I took Easyjet from Bristol (UK) to Hurghada. Easyjet are not by any means my favourite airline but the flight was cheap and direct (except for the surprise extra £48 I was charged at the gate for my carry-on bag).
I was met at Hurghada airport by a driver and car and taken to the Breakers 28 miles (45Kilomaters) south along the coast. Once at the hotel I was too late for an evening meal and so a basic meal was delivered to my room. That and a beer from the fridge and I was fast asleep.
Early the next morning after breakfast I arrived for my rep meeting at the Orca Dive Center for 8.00am. I was immediately made to feel welcome, and after brief introductions I got some dive gear from the store, had a chat with my dive guide Mohamed and got ready to try the house reef situated at the end of a very long wooded pier where all diving gear and divers are taken out by buggies.
Once at the end of the pier, a helping hand from staff makes sure your gear is set and then it’s a short walk to the very end where you can either climb down a ladder of simply jump in the water next to the reef. The house reef extends both north and south giving a very easy and safe dive with plenty to see. At this time of the year the water temperature was a constant 22 degrees Centigrade and there was little or no current, so there were no issues in swimming back to the pier.
Quite a few divers were in dry or semi-dry suits, but being from the UK and used to the cold I found a 3mm wetsuit with a 3mm neoprene vest quite comfortable. Even after 50 years of diving I still find that first dive of a trip slightly nerving until I am actually underwater and then all becomes relaxed and I ease into auto diving mode. There was plenty to see with many of the Red Sea favourites along the way.
After the dive and a buggy ride back to the hotel for a very good buffet lunch I was back in the water, once again on the house reef for an afternoon dive.
Check in for part 2 tomorrow when Jeff gets on a day boat and dives a few of the off-shore reefs.
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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