Gorgeous Diving, Interns Stamina Practice and sunshine!!

What gorgeous weather we have had for the majority of the week rather let down by alittle on Sunday!!

Monday was a great day for Melissa and the Interns Stiven and Patrick because they had the day off, so off they went to El Medano for a lazy day in the sunshine on the beach after a lazy morning sunbathing and swimming they managed to get some tapas lunch followed by the most delicious homemade ice cream

After a full lunch they decided it was a great idea to practice timed swims on the pool ha ha !! And since then each day they have been practising and each day making good improvements, only a another few weeks practice and maybe they will achieve the highest scores!!

We were joined by customers Lynn and Paul for two dives at Yellow Mountain accompanied by Stiven and Patrick.  Stiven completed his Fish Identification Adventure Dive as well as his Boat Adventure dive which is great he is now well on his way to completing the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.

On the dive they saw Large trumpet fish, Anemones, a Black Moray eel as well as lots of Wrasse Bream and a couple of Octopus.  Two great dives a very nice way to spend a morning relaxing dives in the sunshine

Patrick and Alice headed off to the hotel pool in the afternoon for the free try dive sessions and had a wonderful busy afternoon meeting lots of people interested in trying scuba diving.

Discover Scuba Diving always great fun, we were joined by Hollie, Emily and Naomi for a mornings DSD experience  they all did really well Emily decided to stick with her pool experience but Naomi and Hollie were eager to get out to the ocean and meet the fish.

On their Dives at Yellow Mountain they had a great time and saw an octopus, Trumpet Fish and Bluefin damsels to name a few.  Hollie is addicted and cannot wait to get back in the water.

Melissa, Gary, Stiven and Patrick and Lynn and Paul went to have a morning with the Turtles at  Puertito, Interns Stiven and Patrick quite simply can not get enough of the Turtles and every day we hear the same Turtles today?!?

It was a fantastic morning and on the first dive we were spoilt by almost immediately seeing a turtles and several times during the dive seeing the adult turtles swimming around and coming over to inspect us, then as we were heading back to shore there were two adult turtles as well as a baby turtles just in front of us and we all sat awestruck seeing them  right in front of us, almost as if they are putting on a  show for us to see.  Whilst the group was distracted by the ever friendly Turtles Melissa and Patrick were sat watching a gorgeous Cuttlefish just at the side of us, changing colours and patterns so quickly its simply fantastic.

The next day celebrations for Stiven who completed his Advanced Open Water course with the Deep and Navigation dives.  Stiven was very excited to see his first ever Fangtooth Moray eel, and is keen to see the photos of his dives.

Following this Alice started her first rescue Diver training session with Gary and Patrick they had a great time, apart from all appearing very red faced  ...note to self must remember suncream!



Geert, Daphne, Lynn  and Paul joined the team at Poco Naufragio and the moon Pools, Melissa, Paul    and Patrick stayed on the shelf and were really lucky to see two rays a stingray hiding in the rocks we believe to be pregnant as well as a common ray gliding past us.  Moving on we were by us looking at some gorgeous anemones and nearly missed a cuttlefish asleep in the sand, when it awoke it stayed hovering close as if watching us.  Paul was most impressed by the Fangtooth Moray eels who came out to say hello as he was busy taking photos.  Along with a grouper, barracuda and shoals of break and roncadors made this dive amazing.

Alice was with Geert, Daphne, Stiven, Gary and Lynn for the deeper dive, where they saw two small common rays and on their safety stop had one of the large Stingrays come over for a look.  The group were raving about the dive as they came back to the boat, another wonderful start on a very sunny day.

Then the group headed off to the Moon pools, always an amazing site and always great to take the interns to another site, the light shining through the moon pools was amazing, and with trumpet Fish and cuttlefish it just makes for a great dive.

The end of yet another week, and another busy day for the team here at Dive and Sea, first thing they had the Discover Scuba Diving experiences with Jessica, Glen  and Trish, they all had an amazing experience and were really happy that they had managed to see the aquatic life on their dive at Abades.  When Jessica growns a little she will be back to try more diving!!

In the afternoon Alice, Patrick and Stiven headed back off to Abades with Chris and Samantha,
for recreational dives.  they had a great afternoon and are looking forward to the rest of their week diving with us.

Another fun filled week for us all here at Dive and Sea Tenerife.

El Puertito and the Turtles... do we have to get out of the water????

This week has been great here at Dive and Sea Tenerife we have been having fantastic dives with a great group of customers and as usual the sun has been shining.

Lynn and Paul joined us this week for a week of diving Lynn is a divemaster and Paul an Open Water diver.  So the team headed off them Chris and Sam for two dives at Yellow Mountain.  They had two great dives and they came across a Dusky Grouper, Common Ray, Cuttlefish, Red Reef Lobster, Octopus and two Brown Moray Eels.

Stiven was studying hard back at the dive centre in the afternoon he has completed his Emergency first response manual and started watching the Rescue DVD.  Lots of studying for everyone.

Susie and her son Finley joined us for their Discover Scuba Diving Experience at Abades, This was a great experience for Stiven to watch and assist Alice.  They had a great dive and there was lots to see including Red Back cleaner shrimp and Moray Eels.

In the afternoon Stiven was back at Abades this time with Melissa for one dive with Fiona and Scott.  Fiona completed her scuba tune up at the weekend and so was eager to get into the ocean to try out her skills again.  Fiona did really well and was very happy back under the water.  On the dive they were happy to see Anemones, redbacked Cleaner shrimp and octopus

While Melissa and Stiven were having fun at Abades, Patrick and Alice were at the hotel pool offering free try dives to the hotel residents, they had a great busy afternoon and can't wait to head back next week.

Scott was looking forward to starting his Adventures in Diving course, and completed his Deep, Digital Underwater Photography and Boat dives the next morning with Alice, Stiven, Patrick Sam and Chris.  Fiona joined for the two dives at Yellow Mountain   They all had a great mornings diving and retuned back tired but happy with all of the aquatic life they had seen. Congratulations to Scott for completing his PADI Adventures in Diving Course.

The next day we headed off to El Puertito for two great dives with Sam, Chris, Fiona, Alexey, Patrick, Melissa, Stiven and Gary.  They had a great mornings dives, and were really happy to see the turtles.   On the second dive they saw cuttlefish Annulated brittle stars as well as a gorgeous Anemone with sexy shrimp!  It was such a lovely sunny day out a perfect way to spend the morning.

On Friday everyone had a well deserved break, giving Pete a chance to catch up on all his paperwork etc.

The interns had a fun pool session with Alice, and are really starting to improve on the skills, its amazing how quickly they have improved and now are just starting to work on demonstrating the skills.  After a hard session in the pool, Gary and Stiven were studying hard to sit their exams in the afternoon.  Gary completed his Rescue Exam and Stiven the Emergency first response.  Well done to them both.

Melissa, headed off to El Puertito with Stiven, Patrick Aidan, Fergus, and Dan.  They had the best visibility that we have seen all year and they got some great video.  We could all have stayed under water all afternoon just watching the baby turtle swimming around.  It was so nice to have such good visibility you could sea halfway across the bay, and with the sun shining we could not have asked for a better experience   Everyone had a great afternoon, and the team didn't even object to their late finish!

The perfect end to a great week

Celebrations !!! Gary Pineapples Birthday and yet another new name..... Lambada

A bright and hot start to the week..... the calima is coming!

We were joined by Florian, Alexsander, and Pete for two fun dives at Yellow Mountain while wifes Olga and Ulrika headed off the boat for snorkelling.  On the boat were interns Gary, Patrick and Stiven as well as Pete and Alice.

They had two fun dives where they saw Octopus, Anemones, Redback Cleaner shrimp and a small common Ray.

Melissa joined the Divemaster interns for a pool session a great refresher for Melissa and also really great to be able to see the interns progressing with their skills, its amazing how far they have come from being able to accomplish each skills to starting to demonstrate each skill.  It is wonderful to see that they are all trying hard and putting effort in... it has to be said its a little sickening to those of us who do not like the mask skills to see Stiven sitting there for 5 minutes quite happy with out his mask on!!!

Then an afternoon full of reading ..... all the interns are getting on with their respective manuals in preparation for exams and practical sessions, they all did really well it makes for a long afternoon only studying so off they went to the pool for a swimming session.

Then off we went out for our birthday celebrations, we all headed down to the Aberdeen Steak house for a nice meal, everyone was rather amused at the lack of Spanish Menu for Stiven! but all was well despite the wrong pictures for food!  After a nice civilised Meal Pete headed off home but not Melissa and the interns no they decided it was a great idea to go and Play pool at the bar... till 1 am then go for a dance at Taboos... all of a sudden it was 4am ergh!!!  Melissa dalmatian dog woke her at 7am... the whole day was painful and everyone was tired....... very tired

Garys Birthday... his 50th!! ha ha and so we decided to have a nice busy bee day

So after a day of quiet they started bright and early in the swimming pool, for another skill session even   just after the previous practice you can see the skills are improving and today they worked on the pre dive safety check as well as surface skills

After such a great pool session they all headed down to the marina to try the 100 meter tow and the 800 meter snorkel.  They all did brilliantly on the Tow with good scores for their first attempt.  Between the interns Patrick Stiven and Gary they decided that the fin push was the way to get the fastest time.  Poor Gary must have covered at least twice the distance required for the 800 Meter snorkel as he kept snorkelling from one side to the other... oh well its all good practice!

So following all this amazing Stamina they went down to the Aberdeen for an English breakfast, we think Stiven enjoyed it!  So maybe we can head off there again soon.

The final day off the week and the interns headed up to Abades for 3 fun dives where they all took a turn briefing and leading the dives, all of this practice is great as it does make you realise that its not easy remembering everything that is in the brief, and to remember your slate!!

They were all impressed with their navigation abiltities, and happy they were able to get back to the exit point.  they all really enjoyed searching through the rocky reef looking for the hidden aquatic life.