For details of the trip, see the previous post.

(Please note that the price for this trip is now £3670)

Hi Everyone.

I have now half filled this trip and will be opening it up to our international Gay and Lesbian buddies, early in the New Year. With only 9 places left, I expect that this will fill quite quickly and would encourage any interested GLUG members to get on board now.

Happy New Year to everyone.

Charlie

Just a quick note, our first meeting of 2007 won’t be the regular first Tuesday of the month.

Please come and join us at Konditor and Cook, Curzon Cinema, Shaftsbury Avenue at 19:30 on the 9th January 2007.

Meetings will then return to their normal slot in February.

Have a fantasic New Year and see you in 2007.

Regards

Chris Lee

Dear Glug

During my christmas shopping, I came across a digital compass, water resistant to 50m with a large backlight display for only £30!!

Now I don’t know much about these things but I thought even as a backup time device it is perfect!! The compass operates for only 30 seconds (per button push) but quickly gives you your heading (in degrees) and marks North, useful for us even just to work out north from south!! It has the usual digital watch features, stopwatch, alarm, timer countdown etc.

If anyone is interested its from a gadget shop called Red5, although the web site only has a more expensive version for £100 (more features of course), its manufactured by Origo. The nearest store to London seems to be Bluewater, a store listing on their website.

Happy shopping

In Novermber I suddenly encountered great pain, like the back of my head was being held on a hot skewer, following by about 3 days of agony, and a couple of trips to the doctors they told me I had a virus in the spine.
As this cleared the nausia, dizzyness, tinitus and vertigo kicked in and I was told I had Labyrithitis. Obviously my diving had come to an abrupt hault, but does anyone have any information or could point me to any sites for information with regard to diving in the future?
I have been told by my doctor that it could clear up in a few months, or worst case lead to perminant tinitus and profound deafness.
Has any one else been through this, and advise?

Steven Edwards
Jersey

Lambda divers have 3 spaces available (1 deluxe upper, 1 twin, and 1 quad) on their trip to the Turks & Caicos on board the luxurious Aggressor.

For more details, download the Lambda Divers trip details.

NB: Lambda Divers now only have a half-boat charter, so the trip will not be exclusively gay.

Neil.

If anyone is interested in going skiing over the winter (perhaps late March-to Austrian Alps) then drop me a line by email…all parties whether experienced or beginner are welcome. May be regular winter event if popular.
Good apres ski fun and toning the muscles up for the new diving season.

Merry xmas to all from the “Guerns” and “good diving” in 07!
Regards:
Ray (the “Chef”)

When Posting items to the GLUG website, please bear in mind that not all of our members are necessarily “out” to everyone.

I’ve had an email recently from someone who’s looking for a new job, and since prospective employers often Google people’s names nowadays, they don’t really want GLUG to come up at the top of the list, just because someone’s mentioned them in a post!

So, if your post includes members’ full names, then you should make sure that those members are happy for their names to be seen publicly on the GLUG website. If in any doubt then please mark your post as “members only” (you’ll find this option under “Post Status” on the right hand side of the “Write Post” page).

I know that the majority of members don’t care who knows they’re gay, but it’s important that we respect those that do.

Neil.

Tony Backhurst is advertising last minute liveaboard specials at the moment which look like rather good value. There are three January departures at £450 and one at £495, all are for the northern Red Sea Wrecks and Reefs itineraries and include flights, 4 dives a day, 6 nights onboard and 1 in a hotel, food, soft drinks blah blah blah. It’s probably a saving of about £300 and would be a rather nice way to spend a week in January. I can’t get the time off work but I thought someone else might be interested.

Hi everyone

As I previously posted, the end of May bank holiday Sark trip is fully booked up - but now have a few people held in reserve. I am more than happy to organise another weekend, but would need a minimum of 6 divers for the boat. If anyone is interested and has a weekend in mind, let me know and I will see if something can be arranged.

In the meantime, Christmas greetings to everyone and best wishes/happy diving for 2007.

Fred and the chef

Do you ever get bored with the same dive trips to same locations? If so here are 2 quite unique offerings from Rainbow-Scuba in Thailand

Gulf of Thailand Scuba Tour
16-18 February 2007 3 days 2 night

This unique and exclusive cruise will visit some of the best dive sites in the Gulf of Thailand as well as areas of outstanding natural beauty.  No ordinary dive boat - this beautiful hand crafted Chinese Junk is made entirely from teak wood.  Experience the rarely visited dive sites of Ang Thong Marine Park plus Chumpon Pinnacles; Sail Rock and South West Pinnacles plus lots more interesting dives around Koh Tao.

Live-Aboard Tarutao National Marine Park
The Post Phuket Pride Scuba Tour
Easter 2007 - April 2 to 7
5 days 5 nights
Once again Rainbow-Scuba have exclusive use of the luxury marine vessel MV Nautica and our trip sets sail the afternoon after the biggest gay event in Thailand, if not in all South East Asia.   According to Lonely Planet Guide 2006 “Koh Tarutao National Marine Park remains one of the most beautifully isolated and pristine coastal areas in Thailand.”

Read more on both these trips at our web site

Best Wishes for Happy Diving where ever you go
Adam Preston
Rainbow-Scuba
email: info@rainbow-scuba.com
phone/SMS: +66(0)86-2720980
web: http://www.rainbow-scuba.com

Dear GLUG members

Just a quick post to say hello to all our members. I’m Chris Lee and am delighted to take the role of chair for 2007.

I would also like to welcome our new committee members and a hello to those remaining in post, I look forward to working with you all over the next year (please treat me gently ;-)).

I’ve been a GLUG member over the past couple of years and have enjoyed being involved in UK and European Dive Trips as well as training to bring me up to BSAC Sports Diver.

Please feel free to contact me should you have any queries and I shall do my best to help out or connect you with someone who can.

Happy 2007 diving everyone and hope to meet most of you at some point!

Chris Lee

Do you regularly dive below 30m? If so, you might be interested in the Travel Insurance offered by HB Insurance. For a (fairly hefty!) additional premium, they will cover “suitably-qualified” divers beyond 30m, unlike many other Travel Insurance firms.

I asked what “suitably qualified” means, and was told that when you apply for the insurance they will ask for details of your qualification, and will reject the application if the qualification is not suitable. They were unable to tell me which qualifications are suitable, however!

You should also be aware that they do not cover HIV+ divers, although I’m not aware of any Travel Insurance that will cover HIV+ divers beyond 30m - even DAN Europe.

If you tried to access the GLUG website yesterday afternoon/evening, you would have found it was down. This was apparently due to a cut in the cable between the data centre and the point where it joins the main Internet (in Philadelphia).
(Our server is located in Philadelphia rather than the UK because it’s cheaper that way!).

Anyway, the website is now back online, so apologies for any incovenience.

Neil.

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that if you haven’t already registered for the Xmas Meal, today is your last chance!

See the original post for details.

Looking forward to seeing lots of you on Saturday!