Send your dive industry news to: Email: [email protected] For the latest diving news, join diving’s Or write to: News, Sport Diver, 3 The Courtyard, Denmark Street, liveliest online community now at: NEWS Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 2AZ www.sportdiver.co.uk CCR TRYDIVE VENUES 23/24 FEBRUARY AND 30/31 MARCH Join the rebreather revolution • Blue Lagoon, Womersley, Yorkshire DN6 9BB • Capernwray, Carnforth, Lancashire LA6 1AD • Chepstow National Dive Centre, Tidenham, Gloucestershire NP16 7LH • Gildenburgh, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire PE7 2AR • Stoney Cove, Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire LE9 4DW • Wraysbury, Middlesex TW19 5ND CCR TRYDIVE DIVE CENTRES • Above and Below, Pontefract, Tel; 01977 621516, Email: [email protected], Web: www. aboveandbelow.co.uk • Abyss Dive Centre, Stockport, Tel: 0161 427 1616, Email: [email protected], Web: www.abyss- divecentre.co.uk • Aqualogistics, Stockport, Tel: 0161 480 5745, Email: [email protected], Web: www.aqualogistics. co.uk • Atlantic Scuba, Falmouth, Cornwall, Tel: 07866 510103, Email: [email protected], Web: www.atlanticscuba.co.uk • Bristol Channel Diving Ltd, Cardiff, Tel: 02920 464846, Email: [email protected], Editor Mark Evans on a Poseidon MKVI exploring the wreck of the Um El Faroud in Malta Web: www.bristolchanneldiving.co.uk • Cheshire Scuba Academy, Warrington, Tel: 01925 ing.co.uk, Web: www.divesolutions.co.uk • Scubaducks Dive Centre Ltd, Aylesbury, Tel: 01296 652774, Email: [email protected], • Flippas-n-Fins, Wimborne, Dorset, Tel: 07594 317787, Email: [email protected], Web: Web: www.cheshire-scuba-academy.co.uk 946626, Email: [email protected], Web: www. scubaducks.co.uk Here’s your chance to be one of the first recreational the ultimate deal, register as soon as possible. • Chesterfield Adventure Centre, Chesterfield, Tel: flippas-n-fins.com • Scuba Supplies, Lowestoft, Tel: 01502 562135, divers to own their own rebreather. 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The offer closes at the www.divenut.co.uk 572111, Email: [email protected], scuba.co.uk longer no-decompression limits and the total end of December 2013. • Cork Dive Centre, Cork, Ireland, Tel: 00 353 214 840 Web: www.gryphonwatersports.co.uk • Shipmate Deep Diving, Ashton in Makerfield, Tel: silence that only a CCR can deliver, enabling you to 0310, Email: [email protected], Web: www. • Hidden Diving, Solihull, Tel: 0121 744 1526, Email: 01942 722270, Email: mark@shipmatesdeepdiveinn. get up close and personal with marine life. corkdivecentre.com [email protected], Web: www.hiddendiving. co.uk, Web: www.shipmatesdeepdiveinn.co.uk Sport Diver has teamed up with Poseidon Diving TRY A CCR YOURSELF • Dive In Ltd, Cambridgeshire, Tel: 01733 351288, com • Sub-Mission Dive School, Stoke-on-Trent, Tel: UK to give 100 Sport Diver readers the opportunity Never tried a closed-circuit rebreather? Then now is Email: [email protected], Web: www.divein.co.uk • Koolsea Distribution Ltd, County Leitrim, Ireland, 01782 207474, Email: [email protected], to join the revolution in recreational rebreathers at the perfect time! Poseidon UK has teamed up with • Dive Line, Ipswich, Tel: 01473 715533, Email: dave@ Tel: 00 353 858 243 798, Email: Jenkins.francis@ Web: www.divecourses.co.uk an unbelievable price. The Discovery MKVI is the many of its stockists to offer two-for-one trydives diveline.co.uk, Web: www.diveline.co.uk gmail.com, Web: www.northwestdive.com • Surrey Dive Centre Ltd, Ripley, Surrey, Tel: 01438 world’s first fully automatic recreational rebreather on this state-of-the-art unit for just £30 - that is just • Divemaster Scuba, Nottingham, Tel: 0115 929 • Let’s Go Scuba, Bolton, Tel: 01204 864951, Email: 225699, Email: [email protected], Web: and has been approved by PADI/SSI and other £15 each for you and your buddy. The trydives can 0707, Email: [email protected], Web: www. [email protected], Web: www.letsgoscuba. www.surreydivecentre.co.uk leading certification agencies. The £3,999 price be organised at any time by contacting your nearest divemasterscuba.com co.uk • Sandford and Down, Plymouth, Tel: 01752 266248, (including VAT) represents a massive £1,300 saving dive centre from the list on this page, but there are • Dive Northampton, Northampton, Tel: 01604 • MR Diving, Stafford, Tel: 07967 031726, Email: Email: [email protected], Web: www. off the SRP of £5,300. The first 100 readers who log two weekends in February and March when the six 586156, Email: [email protected], Web: [email protected], Web: www.mrdiving.co.uk sandfordanddown.co.uk on to www.poseidon-uk.co.uk, register their interest open-water venues are going to be hosting trydives www.divenorthampton.co.uk • Planet Scuba, Bishops Stortford, Tel: 01279 466011, • Siren Diving, Winchester, Tel: 07718 650748, Email: and complete a recognised Recreational Rebreather from all these centres, so if you want to try CCR for • Divers Down, Torquay, Tel: 01803 327111, Email: Email: [email protected], Web: www.planet- [email protected], Web: www.sirendiving.co.uk course will be able to purchase at this price. Once the first time in the company of other like-minded [email protected], Web: www.diversdown. scuba.co.uk • Tal Shooting and Scuba, Christchurch, Tel: 01202 these 100 units are gone, then the next 100 divers divers, make a note of them in your diary, get in co.uk • Scubadoo Divers, Mildenhall, Tel: 01638 717486, 473030, Email: [email protected], Web: will be able to purchase at the special price of £4,500 touch with your local centre and book your slots • Diving and Marine Solutions Ltd, Wrangton, Email: [email protected], Web: www. www.shootingandscuba.co.uk (including VAT), so to avoid disappointment and get now. Devon, Tel: 01364 72800, Email: rich@deepbluediv- scubadoodivers.co.uk 8 Sport Diver FEBRUARY 2013 www.sportdiver.co.uk www.sportdiver.co.uk FEBRUARY 2013 Sport Diver 9.