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April 2012: New Boats Above and Below |
So far it has been a very Technical start to the season with Megalodon rebreather courses, TDI Decompression Procedures and Trimix. It just goes to show the rise in popularity that Technical Diving has seen over the last couple years. It seems many divers are "ditching" the Deep Diver Recreational qualification in favour of the TDI Advanced Nitrox 40m certification, which also offers you the added bonus of more gas and additional safety offered by twinset.
Here at Scuba Tech, we are offering these technical Diving courses through TDI as well as the PADI Tec Rec (TEC40, TEC45 and TEC50) and if you would like more information regarding any of these courses, just get in touch with us at info@scubatechdivers.com.
2012 is supposed to see the sinking of a number of new wrecks across the island and Protaras is looking forward to the sinking of our new wreck some time in June this year. All the Divers are extremely excited to dive this new underwater wreck and there is also talk of marine park exclusion zones, where fishing will be banned. This will hopefully give the marine life a chance to grow and prosper enabling Cyprus to become a major player in diving destinations.
From the wreck below the sea to the new dive boat operating on the East Coast, the DIVA.
Diva has operated here before but she is under new management for 2012 with a new look. Double outboard engines on the back and new comfortable benches makes this an ideal little hard boat for local dive sites. We have used her for our 50 and 60m trimix dives and are looking for more local sites within the normal recreational limits for our non-technical divers.
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| March 2012: A new season Begins |
Well 2012 has arrived and we should approach this year with trepidation if the Mayans are to be believed.
However, we at Scuba Tech Diving Centre, Cyprus are happy and excited that the start of a new season is upon us and can't wait to see what this year will bring
Alongside our TDI Technical Diver Courses, we are now offering the full PADI TEC REC dive program; including TEC40, TEC45 AND TEC50.
We have the GUE Tech 1 Course running with Rich Walker this year, having run the GUE Fundamentals course with Jesper Berglund in 2011. Hopefully, we will be able to arrange more and more of these fabulous courses in the future. Anyone who is interested in a GUE course or learning a little more about the GUE/DIR philosophies, please feel free to contact us at this address info@scubatechdivers.com.
Anyone who has heard about the ban on Diving the Zenobia Wreck may well have ben a little worried about coming to Cyprus this year. However, I would like to let everyone know that there is no such ban and we are legally allowed to Dive the Zenobia Wreck. It is one of the best in the world, so well worth a visit. If you would like to arrange a group booking, please let us know for our favourable group rates.
Miflex have released a whole host of new colours now to go alongside the Pink Hoses that were released last year. You can now buy Green Hoses, Purple Hoses, Red & White.
Also new for 2012, we are pleased to say that we are dealers for Halcyon Diving Equipment. We will be adding these products to our website very soon, so if you would like information in the meantime, please get in touch.
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December 2011: Miflex Hoses: New Colours Available |
Dive into a brighter world of Diving Equipment with Scuba Tech Diving Centre, Cyprus and Miflex Hoses.
Miflex Hoses are created specifically for the diving market from the highest quality materials with each and every hose subjected to more than 30 individual safety & specification checks
Miflex have now extended their range of colours available to suit a diver's individual personality while still accommodating the accepted standards.
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Above, you can see the brand new Hot Pink Miflex Hoses in use on a Technical Dive. These are available in Low Pressure Inflator or Regulator (Std. 3/8" or 1/2" connections available). They are perfect for Christmas for the lady in your life.
Other colour hoses now being manufactured by Miflex and available from Scuba Tech Diving Centre, Cyprus, include Green (ideal for marking high Oxygen gas mixes) and Purple.
Of course, the regular hose colours are still available. Low pressure Hoses come in; Carbon Black, Black, Glow in the Dark Yellow, Mellow Yellow, Red, White and Blue. High Pressure Hoses are still available in Black.
So, if you would like more information or to order your miflex hoses today, please do not hesitate to get in touch at info@scubatechdivers.com.
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| November 2011: GUE TECH 1 COURSE COMING June 2012 |
Scuba Tech Diving Centre is now pleased to announce that GUE Instructor, Richard Walker has agreed to come to Cyprus in June 2012 to run the first GUE Tech 1 course in Cyprus.
Dates of the course will be the 4th to the 9th June.
GUE’s Technical Diver Level 1 (Tech 1) is structured to prepare divers for the rigors of Technical Diving and to familiarize them with the use of different Breathing Gases and Decompression mixtures.
Tech 1 training focuses on expanding the fundamental skills learned in the GUE Fundamentals course (or elsewhere), and is designed to cultivate, integrate, and expand the essential skills required for safe Technical Diving. This will include problem identification and resolution, and building the capacity for progressively more challenging diving.
In this class, students will be trained in:
a) the use of double tanks/cylinders and in the potential failure problems associated with them
b) the use of Nitrox for accelerated and general decompression strategies
c) the use of Helium to minimize narcosis
d) the applications of single decompression stage diving, and deco procedures.
The class will focus on the use of nitrox and Trimix as breathing gases for dives down to 170 feet/51 meters, and provides an excellent foundation on which divers can build their Technical Diving experience and prepare for GUE’s Technical Diver 2 course (Tech 2).
So, anyone who is interested in booking a place or getting more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch on info@scubatechdivers.com.
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September 2011: GUE Fundamentals |
At the end of August 2011, Scubatech were proud to offer the first GUE Fundamentals course in Cyprus.
With GUE Instructor, Jesper Berglund, we spent 4 days perfecting buoyancy, trim and learning about the benefits of standardised diving.
There are many myths surounding the GUE method of diving, many of which are unfounded but there are a number of equipment and diving standards, which Jesper explained to us.
GUE divers always dive in teams with good situational awareness of the dive and other team members. Standard gases are used; 32% to be used to 30metres (air is never used as a gas for diving) and beyond 30m, trimix is used.
Most of our time during the Fundamentals course was spent in the water learning the finning techniques such as modified frog and flutter kicks, shuffle kicks and back kicks. Buoyancy and trim are the main focuses as these are the fundamental skills of scuba diving and it is suprising how a couple adjustments to the kit that you use can make all the difference to your position in the water.
So, congratulations to the guys who passed the GUE fundamentals course with TECH passes. We will try to organise a GUE Tech 1 course here at Scuba Tech around easter time 2012 with GUE instructor Rich Walker, so anyone who is interested in booking a place or getting more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch on info@scubatechdivers.com.
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July 2011: The Midsummer Update |
It is the middle of our summer season now and what a funny year this has been so far.
We began with lots and lots of technical diver training. From Technical Diving International (TDI) we completed many Advanced NItrox courses, while the new TDI Helitrox course is proving extremely popular as a stepping stone to the world of Trimix Diving.
More recently, we have been welcoming many new divers to the underwater world with Discover Scuba Diving Experiences in Green Bay, Protaras. Many people, having tried diving, decide they are hooked and want to learn and so have completed the PADI Open Water Courses too.
We will shortly be running the GUE Fundamentals course with Jesper Berglund and we look forward to reporting on that once finished. We have been hearing some excellent reports from divers who have previously taken this course, who tell us how beneficial and rewarding they found it.
So, watch this space...
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| May 2011: The Hecataeus Project |
Scuba Tech Diving Centre are pleased to announce that we will be assissting Nireas Marine Research with the Hecataeus Project.
The Hecataeus Project is an exciting expedition to dive and research a seamount, which is an underwater mountain, formed when the continental tectonic plates of Africa-Sinai-Arabia and Eurasia-Anatolia collided.
The seamount can be found 20 nautical miles off the south coast of Cyprus and can be seen with Google Earth.
Seamounts, such as the Hecataeus are centres of Marine Biodiversity and attract concentrations of Pelagic Fish and many other marine animals. Many unknown species can be found at these special Underwater features, yet there has still been very little research by scientists.
Because of its close vicinity NIREAS MARINE RESEARCH will use the Hecateaus seamount as home base for ongoing and long term scientific marine research. Scientists from a diverse range of fields are participating, alongside staff and students from the University of Cyprus' Oceanographic Department.
The first reconnaisance dive will take place on Monday 23rd May 2011, with Peter Crane of Scuba Tech Diving Centre, and Axel Schoeller from Aquatec-Innerspace, diving to a maximum depth of 50m (the ridge drops in steps to over 2000m) to begin to survey the area
For more information about the Hecataeus Project and the work that Nireus Marine Research does, see their website nireasmare.org or you can see their Facebook page
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| April 2011- Global Underwater Explorers Training Comes to Cyprus |
Scuba Tech Diving Centre is proud to offer the GUE Fundamentals course through GUE's Recreational Training Director Jesper Berglund and GUE Instructor Rasmus Lauritsen. A four day Course beginning on the 31st August, the GUE Fundamentals class with GUE's market leading training methodolgy will offer divers of all qualification levels and backgrounds a fun and inspiring course that is guaranteed to make you a better diver!
The GUE Fundamentals course is designed to cultivate the essential skills required by all; sound diving practice, irrespective of level or environment. It is the perfect class for all divers that wish to bring their diving to a new level of skill, control and enjoyment regardless if diving on a recreational or technical level. Furthermore, the GUE Fundamentals class helps establish a solid foundation of the skills and ability required to enter GUE's technical and cave diver training. Most of all, the Fundamentals class is for anyone that want to maximize the fun of diving!
Spaces on this course are limited, so book soon to avoid disappointment. For more information, have a look at our GUE FUNDAMENTALS information page.
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2011- A New Year New Services |
Happy New Year to all our Customers
2011 will be a very exciting year for us here at Scuba Tech Diving Centre. Not only are we now offering 2 new TDI Technical Diving Training Courses in the form of Helitrox and Normoxic Trimix, we can also offer 2 new 'dry' Courses; Nitrox Gas Blender and Mixed Gas Blender. More info will be soon available on our TDI Diving Courses Page
We are also offering new Diving Equipment Servicing, here in Cyprus. Along with the great regulator service currently provided across the island, we are pleased to announce that we are now able to change batteries in your Dive Computers. All computers will, then be pressure tested so you can be assured of a secure seal.
Finally, we are looking forward to seeing all our friends old and new in 2011 and getting wet together!!
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December 2010: New Courses for 2011 |
Scuba-Tech is expanding the in-house diver training courses offered here in Cyprus. Our Technical Diving Instructor, Peter Crane is now a fully qualified TDI Trimix instructor and TDI Nitrox and Advanced Gas Blender Instructor. Trimix is an essential gas for deeper dives to decrease the narcosis caused by nitrogen and oxygen. The TDI course will qualify the diver in trimix diving (helium based) with an 18% mixture or greater, use of nitrox/oxygen for decompression gas to a maximum depth of 60 metres.
In addition to these courses, Scuba Tech will be offering the TDI Extended Range course, for deep air diving and the new TDI Helitrox course.
The Helitrox course is designed to allow divers to use Helium in their breathing mixtures for dives between 30-45 metres. The course can be taught on its own and as an upgrade to existing TDI Advanced Nitrox/ Decompression Procedures Divers. The course is designed to train divers how to plan and conduct a standard staged decompression dive not exceeding a maximum depth of 45 metres and will leave the diver qualified for diving with Enriched Air Nitrox and Helium mixes with no greater than 20% Helium and no less than 21% Oxygen with up to 100% Oxygen for Decompression. |
October 2010: The Winter Season |
Well, we are entering the winter season here in Cyprus but the sun is still shining brightly. The temperature is still in the mid to high 20s, while the water temperature has started to fall but seems to be holding around 24-25 degrees.
Now is the time to start thinking about getting your cylinders and regulators checked and serviced ready for the 2011 season.
Here at Scuba-Tech, we offer Cylinder testing and regulator servicing for most makes and models of regulators. If you have any queries, pop in and see us or email us at info@scubatechdivers.com
If you want your Diving equipment in the best possible shape for 2011, come to Scuba-Tech this winter. For prices and more information about Equipment Servicing, click here for our Diving Equipment and regulator servicing page
Scuba-Tech Diving Centre also has great deals on Apeks Regulators, ATS Diving Equipmentand Miflex Hoses, so if you are looking for a great Diver's Christmas Present this year, see our Diving Products Pages for more information |
September 2010: Russel Dawes Charity Event |
Charity events are being held all over the East Coast of Cyprus currently to raise money to send Russell Dawes, 47 back to the UK for life saving medical treatment.
Russell works in Cyprus as a fitter of air conditioning unit and unfortunately, on August the 18th, whilst doing a job for a friend, he fell approximately 30 feet from a roof and sustained horrific injuries.
Having spent nearly 4 weeks on a life support machine in Intensive care as a result of 3 brain hemhorrages, Russell has been left with severe brain trauma and the hospital he is currently in does not have a neurological ward or a neurosurgeon who can give him the adequate treatment for his condition.
Currently, Russell's wife and children are having to cover 24 hour bedside care for russell. He desperately needs to get back to the UK where he can receive the treatment he requires to make a recovery.
This Sunday, the local dive centres are organising a charity fund raising event to try to rise monies to assisst Russell's family in their plight. We will have a mass dive in Green Bay beginning at 10am. Anyone wishing to dive will pay a contribution of at least €5, which will be donated to Russell's Cause. Please join us and help us to send Russell home. |
July 2010: A new Wreck for Protaras |
As quoted from the minutes of the Cyprus Diving Association. This is some information regarding the proposal to sink a Cyprus Airways Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident in Protaras.
"... the Cyprus Diving Centre Association and many individuals within the scuba diving industry is proposing that an artificial reef be located within the Protaras area near the Liberty Wreck (Sunk May 22 2009) in the Kaparis area. The proposal is that the Cyprus Airways Trident Star II which was hit by the Turkish Air force during the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 be delivered –handed over by the United Nations from the Nicosia Airport to its legal owners and to be scuttled as an Historic Artificial Reef. It will greatly enhance the region's appeal as a dive tourism destination and at the same time promote the Cyprus Problem World Wide since such an event will attract media coverage from all over the World.
... The group has identified a possible location, one which would allow the use of an existing extremely under utilized infrastructure, and build it as a National Historic and Marine Preservation Park.
The park and entry docks in Golden Coast and Ayia Triada should be upgraded to provide more that enough parking, washroom / change room facilities and canteen service.
The park also should provide a boat launching ramp, but there would be the need to install docking that would not infringe upon the 2 beach locations. However, the park is large enough and the docks could be located at the east side of the park near the boat launch ramp and away from the beach areas. The use of this park as a staging area would also completely address the concerns of private citizens and the encroachment upon their land and privacy. It would also eliminate the need for funding to develop the required infrastructure.
This would allow the municipality to turn an existing under utilized park facility into a vibrant, revenue generating park."
So it sounds like there is going to be a lot of work going on this winter to sink a new wreck for us all to dive. It looks like it will be a boat dive close to the Liberty wreck but the location is not yet set in stone. Hopefully, this will be just the start for the creation of artificial reefs and dive sites. |
    
 
  
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