One place remaining on the Rainbow-Scuba Liveaboard to Similand and Surin islands Thailand. Price approx. 432 GBP 4 days 4 nights. Please see the web site for more details  www.rainbow-scuba.com

Happy bubble blowing, Adam

NCRD (Northern California Rainbow Divers) have asked me to pass on to GLUG members, information about a liveaboard trip they’re running to the Galapagos in September 2009.

Currently the trip is half-full, with 7 of the available 14 spaces reserved. Approximate cost is £1850, excluding airfares and marine park fees.

For more information, see the NCRD Website.

Anyone interested should send an email to the trip organiser at galapagos [at-symbol] rainbowdivers [dot] org.

(BTW, Rainbow Divers joined GLUG on a trip to Honduras a couple of years back - they’re a great bunch of people!)

Neil.

21ST MAY-28TH MAY

Daedalus, Zabargad & Rocky

6 day live-aboard on Blue Seas diving the above reefs. First night staying at the Coral Beach in Port Ghaleb, with a days boat diving and then boarding Blue Seas that evening for a 6 day safari to these reefs, which I love.

£800 pp for all transport and the above itinerary.

http://www.oonasdivers.com/dive-tours-red-sea-liveaboards-blue-planet-liveaboards.shtml

I am going on this trip which leaves 12 places.

Any questions, feel free to get back to me or check the Oonasdivers link above.

Charlie Stewart

17th September 2008

ONE WEEKS LIVEABOARD ON BLUE SEAS
SAFARI: THE BROTHERS, DAEDALUS AND ELPHINESTONE
TO INCLUDE: RETURN FLIGHTS, TRANSFERS, FULLY CATERED, 6 DAYS WITH 4 DIVES A DAY.
£1025.00
(PLEASE CLICK ON LINK FOR FURTHER DETAILS incl additional costs such as beer, nitrox and marine park fees)
http://www.oonasdivers.com/dive-tours-red-sea-liveaboards-blue-planet-liveaboards.shtml

Hi Everyone.

Following on from GLUG’s last two fabulous Southern Red Sea trips on the magnificent Blue Seas, I have booked her once again and, this time, we will be doing The Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinestone. These are mostly drop off dives with wonderful coral covered walls on one shoulder and, on the other, the blue with great chances of seeing Hammerheads, Grey Reefers, White Tips, Blue Fin Tuna, Baracuda and, the killer turtle on Daedalus!! You will need to have at least 50 dives under your belt for this trip.
Feel free to read the trip reports on previous trips to these reefs to get a feel for a day on board Blue Seas. Also, for those of you who went on last year’s trip (2006) Berga and Tobias ( 2 burgers and a beer) are back on Blue Seas and we are keeping our fingers crossed that they will be our dive guides for next year!

To book please call Oonasdivers on 01323 648924 with a deposit of £200 (only refundable by replacing your canceled place with someone new) and then please email me so as I can keep my paperwork up to date. This a first come first served trip with booking only accepted once you have paid your deposit. Presently there are 18 places left. Thanks.

Finally, just to sound bite this idea-if anyone is interested in me organising what I can only describe as a ‘pretty’ trip, doing The Fury Shoals/St Johns including Dolphin House safari liveaboard, with less challenging diving, but equally very beautiful, especially for photographers, let me know and I can then price it up and arrange. For now, it would be on Blue Waves which holds 15 people and I would be looking at a May trip for around £895. Looking forward to hearing from anyone interested and then, I will ‘event’ it.

Best wishes to everyone and please feel free to get back to me with any questions.
Charlie Stewart

The lovely Lydia at Oonasdivers has now agreed to give me 19 places on The Southern Red Sea trip ( dep 27th July ), a 7 day liveaboard on the fabulous, brand spanking new Panorama Explorer. This means that GLUG now has the boat to itself with the 20th place hopefully being taken by a diving journalist. Already 10 people have registered interest and one has paid, in full! At £649, incl flights, I think this is a great price. Let’s fill this boat and make this a great trip.

For those already registered, I will be sending out a group email shortly, regarding deposit amounts.

The Red Sea Association for Diving and Watersports have brought in new rules for liveaboard and day diving charter boats, and for divers who use them.

Among the new rules for divers on Liveaboards:

• Divers must have at least 50 logged dives
• Each diver must carry an SMB, and each buddy pair must carry a torch - even on morning dives
• Divers must possess diving accident insurance from “a reputable company”

In addition, all divers (dayboats or liveaboard) must produce medical certification of fitness to dive, issued within the last year.

You can read the full story on the Divernet Website.

The GLUG webmaster will be sunning himself on a Liveaboard in Tobago from Jan 15th-23rd! All emails will be answered on his return.

Could the Sipadan Sunseeker be the most exclusive liveaboard in the world?