Great diving in the beautiful sunshine here in Tenerife

A sad start to the week as we had to say goodbye to Sam, its been amazing how quickly he fit back into the team after two years away and we are all sad to see him go but equally excited to see the videos that he is making for us!!

With the sad departure of Sam came the happy arrival of Frankie, Petes Daughter, she’s fantastic fun and a welcome additional back to the team as a Junior Advanced Open Water Diver with 4 or 5 specialties!!! Unfortunately due to the snow and general cold in the UK she has arrived with a cold so just has to look on as we all dive at the moment.

We also had the arrival of New Intern Patrick, (Peter) he has fast arisen to the honoured ranking of favourite intern as he bought Melissa and Alice a Cadburys creme egg!!!

So first day and Induction and then straight on with the internship and diving. Peter and Patrick were  happy to head off with Melissa and Pete diving on the RIB.

They were out with Peter an Instructor from the UK  on the first dive they went to Poco Naufragio to complete Patricks Deep Dive of his PADI Advanced Open Water Course as well as a fun Recreational dive for Peter.  They had a great dive and Saw a Large Pregnant Stingray, as well as being startled by the Fangtooth Moray who always comes out of his home to see the divers looking for Breakfast! 

On the second dive Melissa took them to Starfish Bay, where they came across two large Octopus as well as a Common Ray, Nudi Branc and Thousands of Black Urchins…… definitely time to be doing a Project AWARE urchin Cull!!!  Two great dives on a lovely sunny morning.

Time for Gary Pineapple to Meet Patrick Starfish, they had a great morning practicing skills in the Pool with Alice, its nice to see that Gary’s skills are improving as well as working with Patrick on his first session, after some help from Alice, Patrick was really pleased to have overcome the problem of mask clearing! Then after a quick tea break it was off to collect Peter for two more fun dives, today they went to Yellow Mountain, they had two amazing dives and saw so much aquatic life they were all really happy with their mornings dive.  Patrick is really happy to be getting in the water and diving and its great to have Gary back again after his Teaching days!!

Gary, Patrick Alice and Cat, headed off bright and early to Abades, its was a really beautiful morning with sunny blue skies.  Cat is here to complete her PADI Open Water referral, she completed the Theory and pool skills about a month ago and now is out in the sun for the Open water section. On the first dive they went out to Abades beach, it’s a great dive for the first open water dive as there is so much to see but its nice and shallow.  On the second dive where there are skills to complete they dived from Abades Bay.  Cat did really well and was eager to move onto her dives three and four which were boat dives at Yellow Mountain, assisted again by Gary and Patrick Alice and Pete went out on the boat.

Cat has completed her Open Water diver course so huge congratulations to her, she did really well and is now looking forward to completing recreational dives.

A busy day as they headed straight off to the Pool with Derek for his Scuba Tune Up.  Derek learned to dive with us two years ago and due to work has not been able to get back since. 

Derek did really well in his pool session, and was happy to find that the skills can flooding back to him, also another great practice for Gary and Patrick for more skill practice.  Patrick was really pleased top tackle the mask skills without any problem!!!

A little windy early in the morning but a great mornings dives out at Yellow Mountain with Cat for her first two recreational dives, she was joined by Interns Gary and Patrick, leading the dives was Alice they were really happy to see a great selection of aquatic life including, Moray, Ocotpus and Red backed cleaner shrimp. 

A busy finished to the week we met the Mclucas Family, Alison completed her Discover Scuba Diving session , and Dad Jim and William and Thomas…. Already Open Water divers were here to join in and dive!!! 

Her family were also eager to get back into the water and were really happy to finally have the whole family together diving!!  On their Dives at Yellow Mountain they saw Octopus, Nudi Branc and Cuttlefish

Another great week here at Dive and Sea Tenerife with fantastic customers and Interns.