1 place remaining for a 3 day 3 night live-aboard with Rainbow-Scuba in Thailand. Visiting the two best dive sites in the south Andaman Sea: Hin Dang, Hin Muang plus stopping on route at many dive sites around Phi Phi islands. October 14-17th. 30,000 Thai baht = approx. £440 less 10% discount for GLUG members. Luxury en-suite air con cabins. See www.rainbow-scuba.com for details.

Extend your stay in Phuket for the biggest gay party in South East Asia, NATION V between 19-22 October. See www.fridae.com for details.

I have 2 places for Swanage 9th and 10th September. Please contact me as soon as possible if interested. We’ll be doing pretty diving on Saturday and a wreck and a drift on the Sunday.

Hi everyone,

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Hi Guys and Girls.

For those of you who have watched the numerous documentaries on these Islands, the very names alone, conjure up the most exciting images of sharks especially schooling Hammerheads. Situated some 36 hours off Costa Rica these islands offer us some of the most adventurous shark diving in the world. With this in mind, I would like to see how much interest there would be in this trip. I invite you to do your own research on these amazing dive sites as well as looking at www.underseahunter.com. The very basics, for now, are: the trip will be planned for March/April 2008, for 18 people, travelling via Madrid to Costa Rica and using The Undersea Hunter fleet. Because we are going so far and paying so much, I have been advised that its best to do Malpelo and The Cocos rather than just The Cocos and allow two weeks for our entire trip. And now for the painful bit-the trip will cost something in the region of £3500. By organising for 2008, this may help you to save towards such expense. There are only a limited amount of vessels which visit these dive sites and they get booked up way in advance-2007 trips are all full! Therefore, I would need to hear from all of those, who are interested, as soon as possible, othewrwise, I will open it up to The US and French divers, we met in Hondurous, who expressed interest then. This is going to be the most amazing dive holiday!

Thats it in a very small nutshell folks and, as requested, can you please register your interest as soon as possible, below this post.

Best wishes

Charlie Stewart

I have posted some of my u/w photos from the recent GLUG trip to the Southern Red Sea on MY Blue Seas. For those interested… Enjoy!
Alan Larsen

We had two hearing-impaired ladies join us at Brighton Pride, and Adeline and I had a feeling that there was someone else in the club who knows Sign Language - if it’s you, please leave a comment below!

The previous post about the Ocean Optics talk contained a broken link to the PDF file.  This has now been corrected, but if you tried clicking from the email, you would have got a “Page not found” error.  The correct link is here.

Ocean Optics and Mavericks Diving are presenting another in their series of free talks, entitled “Destination Dominica - Island of Contrasts”.

The talks are held at Kings College, on the Strand, opposite the Ocean Optics shop, from 7.30pm. There is no admission charge, but you must pre-register.
For more details, download the Ocean Optics Talk Details PDF file.

I’ve had only a limited response to my previous post about an Underwater Photography trip for next year.

I know that there are virtually no details at all at present, but I really just want to get a feel for whether we could fill this sort of trip from within the club or not - not a definite committment!

With only 4 responses so far, it looks like the answer’s going to be no, so if it is something that you might be interested in, please leave a comment, either below, or on my previous post. (You will need to Log in to the website before you can leave a comment - If you can’t log in, send me an email via the Contact Form).
Neil.

I’ve got a couple of spaces on Autumn Dream on 2-3 September. This is not a GLUG trip - it’s my local BSAC club, but they regularly mix in with GLUG and are house-trained. Two GLUG members are already on the trip in addition to myself. Accommodation, diving and meals amount to £123. Contact me asap if interested.

There is still 1 place left for Plymouth, 26-28 August. Please contact me if interested. Suitable for any qualified diver.

I have posted some of Martijn and my pictures from the Scapa Flow trip last week….please feel free to add any of your own happisnaps to this gallery,I saw quite a few cameras on the trip!