Agenda 010507 Please find attached the agenda for tomorrows meeting.

Hope to see you all there!!

Regards

Chris

Ooops, didn’t attach first time!! Sorry

Hi everyone

The long May weekend is coming up, the weather is great so we thought a picnic would be nice for our next get together.
Who would like to join us on Sunday 6th May around 1pm at Greenwich Park?

Sonja and Fiona

I urgently need divers for a 3-day weekend (bank holiday) in Weymouth. It’s a non-GLUG dive, but there are GLUG members on it. The boat is the luxurious Lamlash and accommodation has been arranged at a comfortable B&B in Weymouth. Please contact me if interested. I have 3 places, but have a couple of people who could make the Saturday only.

Two new gay scuba tours from Rainbow-Scuba, Thailand’s lesbian and gay scuba tour operator.

Live-Aboard Similan & Surin Islands

17-22 November 2007

5 Days 5 nights

Leave and return Phuket, Thailand

Full details on the web site http://www.rainbow-scuba.com/wst_page18.html

The Similans can certainly lay claim to being one of Asia’s top dive destinations, with over 30 different dive sites. East-facing sites feature gently sloping reefs and drop-offs with impressive gardens of sea anemones, flourishing hard and soft corals, and teeming fish populations The dive sites on the western side are quite the opposite. Giant granite boulders tumble down to the seabed to depths of 40m or more and a network of tunnels and caverns provide exciting swimthroughs.

Live-Aboard Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar

8 to 14 Feb 2008

5 days 6 nights

Leave & return Phuket, Thailand

Very few live-aboards visit this area and those that do make 8 or 9 day tours. This 5 day 6 night trip has been customised for Rainbow-Scuba on our ever faithful ship the Nautica.

The Mergui Archipelago contains some of the most diverse and interesting marine ecosystems in the world. There are four types of diving environments in the archipelago: shallow, inshore fringing island reefs where visibility may be poor but the diversity of marine life is unsurpassed; offshore fringing reefs where the visibility is considerably better and the coral is much healthier; pinnacles and small rocky islands which rise from the depths and attract larger marine life such as sharks and rays; and banks which rise up from depths of over 300-meters and attract different types of marine life altogether

Full trip details on our web site

http://www.rainbow-scuba.com/wst_page20.html

Happy diving where ever the tides take you

Adam Preston

www.Rainbow-Scuba.com

I have added a Social Events page to the website. We’ll be using it to record our non-diving club activities in much the same way as the Trip Reports pages cover our diving. It’ll give prospective members an idea of what we get up to when we’re not in the water and help current members to remember where they’d ended up after that umpteenth Gin and Tonic.

So if you’re coming along to one of our social evenings, training weekends or lecture nights please feel free to bring a camera and send me any pictures you’d like to have added to the site.

And don’t worry, I won’t be harassing you for Social Event Reports.

I would like to thank Fizz and Martin for their reports from both (March and November) Tenerife trips and Jason, for uploading them, inserting pictures and uploading my pictures onto the gallery. Both trips were great fun and Glug established its position as a regular customer of the Tenerife Dive, friendly and professional diving centre, actively run by owners David & Yvonne Taylor with a significant contribution from an instructor and dive guide Maxim Zigelman aka Ami. To these Glug members, who are not familliar with their website www.tenerifedive.com I would definitely recommend viewing it. It is very informative and you can see familiar faces of Glug members if you look at the news pages for March 2007, November 2006 and June 2005. If anyone is interested in diving Tenerife, please add a comment to this post or e-mail me by clicking on the envelope icon, stating when would you like to go. If there is enough interest, I will organise another trip or pass all the information to anyone who may be interested in organising it. There is quite a few pictures in our gallery from Tenerife trips to whet your appetite for diving Tenerife.

Glug members at the bar Via Moana with Yvonne (middle of front row) of Tenerife Dive.

Dear Members

Would anyone be interested in creating a GLUG group to get involved in the walk for life event to help raise money for Crusaid?

Info at: www.walkforlife.co.uk

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Thanks

Chris

We have a new trip report… and it’s another one from a Tenerife trip (the trip taken in March of this year, this time). If anyone has any photographs to add to it please send them along to me by clicking on the envelope next to my name at the top of this post.
Tenerife by Fizz

Thanks, Fizz.

We have a new trip report on the site:
Tenerife by Martin J

Thanks, Martin.

I’m running a non-GLUG dive weekend in Weymouth on the last bank holiday of May (26th-28th). Diving is off a large hard boat called the Lamlash. Accommodation is at a guest house in Weymouth. PADI Advanced/BSAC Sports minimum qualification needed + dry suit. I have one place left if anyone is interested.

A place has become available on the first bank holiday in May dive in Weymouth. 3 days’ diving off the hard boat X-Dream with accommodation at a local gay hotel. Desperate to fill the place. PADI Advanced/BSAC Sports upwards qualification needed + dry suit.

I’ve just uploaded to the gallery some of my pics from a week’s ‘muck diving’ in the Lembeh Straits in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, which I did at the end of March.

For anyone who hasn’t heard about ‘muck diving’, it’s quite unlike anything you’ve ever done underwater in warm seas. It’s essentially diving over a black sandy (and often rubbish-strewn) bottom, but in which you can find the most amazing array of weird and wonderful critters. For photographers it’s a high-yield destination - there is so much to see that you almost run out of media on a two-tank boat trip!

If anyone wants to see more, I’ve got loads more pics… Enjoy!

26 - 28 May 2007

Due to a cancellation, we have one place available for this Channel Islands (Sark) bank holiday weekend. If you would like further information, please e-mail me and I will let you have further information.

As well as the excellent diving, it is very much a ‘social weekend’ with the ‘Chef’ (Ray) doing the cooking. Three days of diving, we hope to get at least one wreck dive done.