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Go Red Sea liveaboard diving with blue o two this weekend for just £645 per person – including flights!
UK dive tour operator blue o two have a crazy last minute deal for this Friday – flagship M/Y blue Horizon sailing the wonderful Brothers & Elphinstone for just £645pp including flights from the UK! Hammerheads, threshers, grey reef and white tip reef sharks have all bee spotted at Brothers just this week, so why not treat yourself? You know you want to.
Here’s a reminder of some of the other great deals blue o two currently have on offer:
M/Y blue Fin – Red Sea
27 Sep – 04 Oct: Best of the Red Sea – £1145 (last male share)
08 Nov – 15 Nov: Strait of Tiran and North – £895
15 Nov – 22 Nov: Best of Wrecks – £895
22 Nov – 29 Nov: Best of Wrecks – £995
M/Y blue Horizon – Red Sea
13 Sep – 20 Sep: Brothers and Elphinstone – £645
20 Sep – 27 Sep: Northern Wrecks and Reefs – £845 (No Manchester supplement)
18Oct – 25 Oct: Project Shark: Simply the Best – £1249
29 Nov – 06 Dec: Brothers and Elphinstone – £845
M/Y blue Melody – Red Sea
27 Sep – 04 Oct: North and Ras Mohamed – £1095
11 Oct – 18 Oct: Strait of Tiran & North – £1095 (No Manchester supplement)
18 Oct – 25 Oct: Northern Wrecks and Reefs – £995
01 Nov – 08 Nov: Strait of Tiran and North – £995
22 Nov – 29 Nov: Simply the Best – £995
29 Nov – 06 Dec: Simply the best – £845
M/Y blue Voyager – Red Sea
06 Sep – 13 Sep: Strait of Tiran & North – £695
20 Sep – 27 Sep: Northern Wrecks and Reefs – £845 (No Manchester supplement)
25 Oct – 01 Nov: Simply the best – £1195 (No Manchester supplement)
01 Nov – 08 Nov: Northern Wrecks and Reefs – £1099
08 Nov – 15 Nov: North and Brothers – £895
M/V Carpe Diem – Maldives
22 Nov – 30 Nov: North Male – Ari – Felidhu – South Male – £1999*
28 Feb – 08 Mar: Project Shark: Maldives with Nikki Weeden – £2295*
S/Y Fiji Siren – Fiji Islands
04 Feb – 14 Feb: Lomaiviti & Taveuni Islands (10 nights) – £3013**
*Package price is subject to change due to fluctuations in flight prices. Final package price will be confirmed at
time of booking.
**Excludes flights
To book or for more info contact blue o two now on 01752 480808, email info@blueotwo.com or visit their website www.blueotwo.com
North West-based Dive Centre, Palaemon Divers, has been shortlisted for Leisure and Tourism Start Up of the Year with Start Up Awards 2023.
Palaemon Divers is delighted to be named a finalist in the Awards which celebrate Start Up Businesses and what they have brought to the economy within three years of their launch.
Palaemon Divers was started by Leanne Clowes in the midst of COVID lockdowns. Leanne walked out of her well paid corporate sales job with no savings after a redundancy in a previous role and spending the majority of the year before COVID to follow the dream! After the redundancy and COVID, life struck just a little differently and the pull to become a full-time dive instructor became impossible to ignore!
So with that… notice was handed in, no savings, nothing physical to start being a full time dive instructor other than personal kit at the time – oh and the fact, Leanne was actually an Assistant Instructor at the time and hadn’t attended the instruction exam at that point as there had been none going on through COVID obviously!
However, the first Instructor Exam that was happening out of COVID was booked onto – no pressure at all with no full time job, no money as a back up, mortgage and bills to pay…
Leanne started freelancing as an instructor in the North West using various outdoor locations for training, and the business snowballed and quickly gained its first physical dive centre in January 2022 along with finding their own private in-water training facility at Princes Dock in Liverpool. Since then, 100s of new people from Liverpool and further afield have been introduced to the amazing sport of scuba, and experienced the abundant life under the surface of the dock itself.
In a time of no travel to outside your area or abroad, Palaemon Divers found something new and exciting to introduce the city of Liverpool to those who spend five days a week in the office looking down at the dock and not really being able to appreciate what the dock actually means to Liverpool!
It became apparent during 2022, that although Liverpool was fantastic, more growth was on the cards which came in the form of a second location, Palaemon Divers – Warrington. The second dive centre is an ex micro brewery in Warrington with a central location close to the M6, M62 and M56, spread over two floors which includes a classroom, workshop, compressor and a floor dedicated to retail.
The efforts in building this business have not gone unnoticed with the shortlist for Startup Awards, and also another shortlist which will be announced in the next month.
For more, email or visit:
In a video shot exclusively for Scubaverse.com, Jeff Goodman reviews the Quilted Polar Hat from leading drysuit manufacturer Otter Watersports.
For more information, visit www.otterwatersports.uk.
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