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.

Another fabulous week of calm seas and blue skies….. life in the canary islands who can complain when you wake you seeing the sea every day!!

Pete has bought a new fish tank for the plec as it was getting way too big for the other tank, I suppose we will wait and see what else he put in it!!  Its being filled slowly day by day will post photos when its actually go the fish in it!

Poor Melissa has been off with a bad back for a few days… but still working form home….. lots of admin to catch up on as per usual, hopefully she will be fully recovered next week… and Emelyne is off with an Ear infection no diving for one while week. Lets hope everything is sorted on her next visit to the Drs!!

Sam and Alice took Celia for a gorgeous morning snorkelling trip at Abades, they were all really happy to see the clear blue waters and they could easily see the life on the reef including wrasse, Bream, Damsels, and Parrot fish all nice and colourful.

They were reluctant to leave to come back to the dive centre after such a nice calm morning snorkelling.

Finally Gary is back, with his pineapple intact!  After a very relaxing holiday it is back to the Challenge of the  internship, poor Gary appears to have forgotten everything he learnt two weeks ago, so back to the beginning again no problems, Gary has plenty of time as he is not restricted to eight weeks as he lives here in Tenerife.

We had fun with Discover Scuba divers Deborah, Connor, Lucy and Simon, they all completed the pool session and really enjoyed the experience and then headed off out to the ocean for their open water dive.  Simon, Connor, Sam, Gary and Alice had a great dive at Yellow Mountain and Simon was very impressed with the trumpet fish which are amazing!!!

The only thing that but a black mark against this otherwise perfect morning was the discover of a dead dolphin which had a plastic bag wrapped around its mouth.  It was such a sad sight and really upset everyone here at Dive and Sea Tenerife

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After a traumatic time with the clocks moving forward…… we were all here bright and early to head out to yellow Mountain, with Jp, Che, Molly and Dan.  Sam was back again filming the outing

They had a great mornings diving, and on the dives they were out looking amongst the cracks and crevices searching for Annulated Brittle Stars Anmeones and morays!  Fantastic

We are all prepared for our new intern Peter starting .. new name Patrick!!  We can’t have two Pete’s at the same time too confusing.

A mamouth journey to the north.......;-)) and fabulous blue sunny skies

A great relaxing week enjoying some fun diving with great people!

So Gary Pineapple has gone off on holiday abandoning us all  Happy Holidays Gary Pineapple!!   We all look forward to welcoming him back for Easter.

So we all arrived bright and early at the Dive centre Monday morning and off Emelyne, Alice and Pete went to El Delfin and the pipeline.

El Delfin is such a wonderful site and they were really happy that they saw a massive Black Moray as well as a fangtooth moray, Common Rays and Anemones.  Then back to the boat before heading out to the pipeline where they saw they saw shoals of Breams, Arrow Crabs and loads of Fire Rollers and a streaked Gurnard much to Emelyne delight as this was a species of fish that she had not previously come across.

Sam is back!  It’s a real treat to have one of our old divemaster Interns return for some more fun.  Sam was one of our divemaster Interns from 2 years ago, he joined us as a non diver and took to it as the saying goes like a duck to water!  Unfortunately Sam has not been able to dive for the last 2 years so we started off with a tune up in the pool, even Pete went in for a giggle!  Sam did really well… Quality training and all that!

It was great to see that Emelynes skills are improving, lots more practice needed though. As soon as Gary is back they will be able to head to the pool for daily skill sessions.

Off they headed with Melissa to Abades for some recreational dives, they had two great dives and saw, two fangtooth Moray eels…. Hiding away but you could see their tails slithering around in the crevices, we also saw a Black Moray, Red backed Cleaner shrimps and Anemones with Tiny Sexy Shrimp dancing away.

An amazing relaxing morning in the sunshine!!  Sam is taking underwater videos of the dive sites and us all diving so we are all really looking forward to seeing the end result.

Another fabulously bright sunny day and off we headed to the north of the island leaving poor Pete in the shop alone.  (More like a welcome relief I think!! ) We met up with Jackie and Phil from Teide divers our friends from the north, to go and try a new dive site Punta Teno with instructor Isidro, it’s a very long drive, but the dive site was lovely.

You enter the water in a small bay and then we headed out on the surface to the edge of the bay before descending, as soon as we descended there was a ball of Roncadores, always a great sight to see such a large shoal of fish together.  On the dive there were also lots of Wrasse, Bream, Damsels, and Parrot fish.  The dive site is made up of lots of rocky areas and large deep valleys, a wonderful site to explore.  On our return towards the shore we stumbled over a large black stingray, it must have had a 2 meter wing span it was a great surprise at the end of the dive.

Then off we headed to Garachico after a nice picnic lunch in the sunshine. Melissa had dived previously at Garachico Los Archos a beautiful Site, Emelyne, Sam and Alice thought it was a great site.  For Sam and Emelyne it was only the second time they had completed a Giant stride into the water so that was great practice for them.

After our long drive back to the south we all slept like logs!

At last Emelynes birthday and the long awaited chocolate cake, it looked amazing and was simply delicious!!  So after cake and a restful afternoon we all had a few celebratory beers after work!

We were joined by Gerhard and Julie two scuba divers who were keen to try out some recreational dives, so along with Alice, Sam and Emelyne they headed off to Yellow mountain on the boat.  They had two great dives and saw, Trumpetfish, Scorpionfish, Parrotfish and an Octopus

All this was followed by a well deserved rest day for Melissa, Sam, Emelyne and Alice while Pete was hard at work at the shop (ha ha )

Melissa headed off to Las Eras with Sam and Emelyne, this is a relatively new dive site so Sam had not been here previously

Sam was really impressed with the site and was happy to be able to record our dives as well as the aquatic life that we were able to see.  On the dive we saw Anemones, Large trumpet fish and shoals of Bream, as well as several Nudi Branc.

A wonderful end to a fabulous week of diving.

Calm seas Blue Skies and even better Dolphins!!!

Diving, Dolphins, Calm seas and Sunshine what more could we ask for?

We have had another week of flat calm seas absolutely wonderful.  Its been so calm Melissa has even been out on the boat and even Pete has been diving whatever next?

This week we were joined by Maggie and Richard, Master Scuba Divers, for their Surface Marker Buoy Speciality and some fun recreational dives.

We have had a great week with Maggie and Richard they are great divers and its been lots of fun meeting them and we have all enjoyed their company whilst out diving on the boat.  So on their first days diving, Alice and Pete took them to Girano arecife for their SMB speciality, they both did really well and have continued all week practicing putting their SMB’s up, as they say practice makes perfect.

Richard and Maggie joined us with Terry, Matthew, and Paul and we headed off to Yellow Mountain.  The two dives were really great and on the second dive they saw 5 large octopus which was incredible, as well as Anemones, Cleaner Shrimp and Annulated brittlestars.

In the afternoon Melissa and Alice went off for a nice warm bath in a private pool, with Darren and David.  David was completing his Bubblemaker experience and they all had amazing fun playing games in the pool including tag!  Darren meanwhile was completing his Discover Scuba Diving pool experience.  They both did incredibly well and are all back soon and even mum will be trying first snorkelling and then diving, and David will be able to join in diving as he will be 10.

Melissa and Alice were reluctant to leave the warm bath like swimming pool but headed back to the shop for more administration duties.

Maggie and Richard were back and joined by James for their dives at Poco Naufragio and The Moon pools.  A bright early start clear blue skies, vey calm sea, and two great dives. 

On the first dive Melissa and James explored the shelf as James is an open water divers, they had a great dive and saw several gorgeous anemones as well as two Wahoo sprint past, there is always so much life to see on the shelf, with Red back cleaner Shrimp, Barracuda, Groupers and then as Maggie and Richard went deeper with Alice they saw a Large Stingray plus black and fangtooth Moray eels.

The best part of the morning was the dolphins who surfaced near the boat as we were moving off to our next dive, a pod of 4 dolphins put on a nice display for us all, and it was also funny to see the seagulls actually getting some of the fish the dolphins were chasing.  Its so amazing seeing the dolphins, and as we were all leaning over the sides you could see the dolphin just underneath the water appearing to be looking up at us watching to see what we were doing

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For their second dive of the day they headed off to The Moon Pools, where Pete joined Alice so that she could learn this dive site.  They had an amazing dive with the sun shining through the pools, gorgeous Octopus and Cuttlefish at this dive site.  A fabulous morning out on the boat for all.

100% Project AWARE, Fabulous Dives with great divers

We are really pleased to be able to share our good news that we are now 100% Project AWARE!!!  Our Award winning PADI IDC Centre leads the way again as the first Dive Centre committed to conservation in Tenerife.  The Project AWARE Foundation is a growing movement of scuba divers protecting the ocean planet – one dive at a time.

Everyone completing a PADI certification with us will now receive a unique Project AWARE certification card instantly showing you care about our oceans.  Also new for 2013........ FREE Diving!! All our Dive Against Debris Dives will now be free, with a donation to Project AWARE.

Whilst others are talking about saving the oceans we here at Dive and Sea Tenerife have committed to doing something about it.... NOW.  So why not join us and feel good that you are helping save the oceans.

Another fun filled week here at Dive and Sea Tenerife, Turtles, Morays, Discover Scuba diving and much more.  

After a nice well deserved lay in Melissa and Alice  headed down to El puertito with new divers, Ana, and Tristan, Rescue Diver Cyril and Open Water diver Gary.  They had an excellent morning diving and everyone was thrilled at their experience with the Turtles. 

It is definitely one thing to see the Turtles in photos and TV but its an amazing experience when you see them up close and personal.  Its such a nice experience to see how inquisitive the Turtles are, they come so close to divers, and their eyes seem to be looking directly into yours.  This is definitely one of our favourite sites, and I have not met anyone who doesn’t love the experience.

At this dive site there is also plenty of other aquatic life to see, and for new divers Tristan and Ana it was an eye opening experience into the array of aquatic life they could see.  They were really happy to see Nudi Branc, Bream, Damsels and hermit crabs.

A very early start with Discover Scuba Diving for Edim and Colm, they did really well in their pool session and were very excited for their Open Water dive at Yellow Mountain, where they were joined by Aidan.

 On the Open Water dives they saw Octopus, Bream, Trumpet Fish as well as a cuttlefish.  As always it was amazing to see the faces of the two boys on their first experience under the sea. 

Finally it was time for Ana to complete her Open Water diver course, so off she went with Alice, Pete and boyfriend Cyril to Yellow Mountain, to complete Open water dives 3 and 4.  She has done really well on her course and has been a pleasure to teach for Alice. 

Unfortunately this was their last dives here in  Tenerife but hopefully we will see them both again back in Tenerife.

This week we were joined by Aidans Daughter Gill and her friends Muireen and Brian for their Discover scuba diving experience.  The kids were definitely not awake when they arrive at 07:30 at the dive centre but the pool soon woken them all up, and they couldn’t wait to go out in the ocean, with Pete, Alice, Aidan, and Mick.

Then they headed out to Yellow Mountain on the boat for a nice relaxing dive.  They all had a great time and the new divers were amazing it was a great dive.  On the dive they saw Lizard Fish, Wide Eyed Flounders and Arrow Crabs.  Then  after dropping Aidan and the kids off they went to Giranno Arecife for a nice drift dive!!  They saw Redbacked Cleaner Shrimp, Anemones as well as an octopus.  All in all a great mornings diving.

A glorious sunny morning calm seas and Melissa out diving on the boat, whatever next!!!  Melissa and Alice headed out to Poco Naufragio with Mick, Aidan and Nigel, Alice headed off into the depths insearch of Stingray while Melissa stayed on the shelf with nigel and Aidan Open Water Divers.  On the shelf there are some absolutely amazing things to see, on this particular dive, there were several different coloured anemones, with Sexy Shrimp, A small and a Large Grouper as well as a shoal of large Baracuda circling the shoals of bream.  Best of all though was Melissa getting attacked by an Octopus, it obviously took exception to the flash on the camera and launched itself at her!  Lots of squeeling and laughing all round!!!  Down in the depths where a very small fishing boat lies Alice and Mick were happy to See two Morays black and fangtooth as well as a large stingray and a small common ray.  What a fantastic way to start your day.

After dropping Melissa and Aidan off at the Marina Alice, Mick and Nigel headed off to Alien Rock, another one of our favourite sites, a large rock formation which hides a mulitude of aquatic life.  On this particular dive they saw saw lots of octopus although none that attacked them!!! As well as Trumpet fish, Anemones and cleaner shrimp.

A great week here at Dive and Sea, and more fun to look forward to next week, with PADI Specialities and fun recreational diving.

PADI Courses and the PADI Instructor Course

Everything is going well on the IDC for Paul so we are sure he will do well on his Instructor Examination.  The first few days have been focused on teaching the candidates how to teach a PADI Course in the Classroom, Pool and Ocean, and giving presentations all of which is to help with the Instructor Examination.  He is enjoying working with the other applicants, and Course Director David to improve on all his skills and theoretical Knowledge. 

Alice and Tristan had a great two days completing the rest of his Open water course.  For his first Open water dives they headed out to Abades with Boy and Melissa. Tristan performed really well on his dive and was happy to have seen a small common ray as well as Cuttlefish and lots of damsels and breams.

Boy was just happy to be in the water again with no skills to perform just having fun waving at the fish again.  He is still over whelmed by how amazing the experience of being under water is.

Then onto dives 2, 3 and 4 for Tristan they headed out to Yellow Mountain, better viz and calmer conditions and Tristan was having lots of fun, they were also accompanied by Boy his last dives for this visit in Tenerife.  Congratulations to Tristan for completing his PADI Open Water course.  He is looking forward to joining us next week for some recreational dives.

Finally we managed to get the boat out of the water, as always lots of fun getting the guys at the Marina to lift the boat, annual maintenance for a few days before it will be back in the water.

We were joined by Kelly and John for their afternoon Discover Scuba Diving session in the pool, they both did realty well and enjoyed the experience with Alice, and were very excited about their early morning trip out to Abades with Alice, Melissa, Cyril, Dallas and Grace.

The sun was shining thankfully for our outing bright and early up to Abades, and the dives were excellent, Melissa headed off with Cyril, Dallas and Grace for some fun dives, they saw some fantastic aquatic life including a shy Black Moray Eel, Gorgeous Anemones with Sexy Shrimp as well as Red Backed Cleaner Shrimp. 

Kelly and John both did really well for their dives in the Sea and both had two wonderful dives with Alice.  They were really happy underwater and are looking forward to moving on to a PADI Open Water Course.

Melissa and Cyril headed off to Las Eras for a wonderful dive a tough current to fight but a great dive where they were able to see lots of Anemones, Hermit Crabs large Baracuda and Trumpet fish as well as a really beautiful cuttlefish.

Bright and early the next day Ana headed down to the pool with Alice to Start her PADI Open Water Course.  Ana was excellent under the water in the pool on her confined sessions.  Ana spent the rest of the first day watching the DVD, and finally sat her exam,

Ana then moved on the next day for her PADI Open Water dives at Girjano Arrecife with Alice and Cyril they had two great dives and were really happy with Ana´s skills

Alice was back off to the pool in the afternoon on the return from  the open water dives with Gary for his Scuba Tune Up.  Gary hadn’t dived for a few years and so brushed up his skills with Alice.  He is really looking forward to heading off to El Puertito to see the Turtles next week.

A great week of diving and lots of fun with great customers.