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Temptingly HOT offers from Diverse Travel

If you’re feeling the heat, there can be no place better than underwater. Check out the latest HOT offers from our friends at Diverse Travel:
Indonesia
Emperor Raja Laut – Komodo
- Prices from just £3095 per person sharing a twin cabin including all flights, 7 nights, meals and more. Valid for travel on certain dates in August 2018.
Red Sea
Marsa Alam and El Gouna – Just £58 a day
- Includes 2 dives a day, guide, tanks, weights, weight belt, transfers to/from your hotel, all port fees and surcharges.
- ADD more value to your diving: add ‘All-In’ to 5 days’ boat diving for just £109.
- Book a 5 day dive pack, add an ‘All-In’ package and your lunch and drinks on board, 3 x 3rd dives, daily Environmental Tax and even 12 litre Nitrox are included.
- Valid for diving until December 2018.
Marsa Alam 5* Siva Port Ghalib Resort + Diving + All inclusive
- From just £1190 per person sharing a twin/double room including all flights, 7 nights, 5 days’ diving and more.
- Valid for travel on certain dates in July and August 2018.
Emperor Elite August 2018 Offer
- From just £1395 per person sharing a twin cabin including flights, 7 nights, meals, red wine with dinner, 6 days’ diving and more.
Maldives
Emperor Voyager – August 2018 Offer
- Price from just £1985 per person sharing a twin cabin including flights, 7 nights, meals, 6 days’ diving, BBQ dinner and more.
- Valid for travel on certain dates in August 2018.
Renowned for their personal service and tailor-made holidays, Diverse Travel has a team to create the perfect holiday just right for you. The vast majority of locations are personally known to the team too so you get exactly what you’re looking for.
For more information visit www.diversetravel.co.uk, or contact on 01473 852002 or email info@diversetravel.co.uk.
News
Midlands Diving Chamber donates £20k to Bite-Back

Hyperbaric and dive medical experts, Midlands Diving Chamber (MDC), has underpinned its long-term support of Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with a one-off donation of £20,000, as the Rugby-based diving doctors wind down the charitable side of its operation.
The donation represents the single biggest financial contribution made to Bite-Back, delivering a huge boost to its campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products.
Spokesperson for Midlands Diving Chamber, Sally Cartwright, said: “For years we’ve admired and supported the ground-breaking work that Bite-Back is doing to save, protect and celebrate sharks. It’s a genuine pleasure to help ensure it stays at the forefront of shark conservation in the UK.”
Midland Diving Chamber first supported the charity at the inaugural Bite-Back at Cancer event in 2007 and then annually for the next six years. It even hosted its own James Bond-themed party on the Thames to fundraise for the marine NGO.
Campaign director for Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We can’t thank MDC enough for its continued support and now for this massive contribution to our pioneering shark conservation campaigns. It makes us very proud that the country’s premier diving medical experts have chosen to back our campaigns that extend from parliament to primary schools. This financial windfall will allow us to continue to lead the shark conservation agenda in the UK and deliver measurable shark conservation breakthroughs to keep the oceans healthy.”
Bite-Back’s No Fin To Declare campaign to end the UK’s import and export of shark fins is now just months away from achieving Royal Ascent into law and, earlier this month it launched a free 56-page teaching resource for Key Stage 2 & 3 students on the importance of sharks and the threats they face.
Midlands Diving Chamber is based at St. Cross Hospital in Rugby and operates a hyperbaric decompression chamber offering NHS funded recompression to divers with Decompression Illness (DCI) together with other Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) treatments. Any diver with medical concerns should contact MDC on either 01788 579 555 or 07931 472 602.
Find out more about Bite-Back at http://www.bite-back.com/
Marine Life & Conservation
Watch The Real Watergate from Live Ocean Foundation (Trailer)

Sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke established Live Ocean Foundation out of their deep concern for health of the ocean and the life in it. Through their sport they champion action for the ocean, taking this message to the world.
Many of the issues the ocean faces are out of sight, but the science is clear, the ocean is in crises from multiple stressors; climate change, pollution and over-fishing. We’re not moving fast enough, not even close.
Live Ocean Foundation supports exceptional marine scientists, innovators and communicators who play a vital role in the fight for a healthy future.
Thanks to generous core donors who cover their operating costs, 100% of public donations go directly towards the marine conservation projects they support.
Find out more at https://liveocean.com/foundation/
WATCH THE REAL WATERGATE AT https://www.realwatergate.com/
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