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Enabling Divers...
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As one of the leading dive centres in the Middle East, Divers' Lodge Hurghada is offering both IAHD (recreational and professional training) and SDI recreational programs for disabled divers and has built up experience with it. The infrastructure of both Divers’ Lodge and the Intercontinental Resort & Casino is extremely well suited for physically challenged divers.
Diving is a fantastic pastime for everyone and many disabilities are no longer considered to be a barrier to diving. Actually, it is a well known fact that anyone who participates in recreational activities that require some physical effort, experiences a better health, both physically and mentally.
Divers Lodge offers the course program of the International Association for Handicapped Divers (IAHD). This program offers diving courses for many levels of handicaps. From diving only in a swimming pool up to the real advanced open water diving, even with Nitrox, it is available. We also offers IAHD courses for dive buddies or surface supporters.
If you are an instructor and you would like to work with the handicapped, Divers’ Lodge also offers IAHD Pro Training in a 3 day program for 679 euro including certification fee and manual.
Training Agency Scuba Diving International (SDI) developed a specially-enhanced Open Water Diver training program aimed at physically challenged divers. Also available is a complete supporting program that includes a Scuba Discovery program and specialist courses for Surface Support and Dive Buddies.
For more information please email us office@divers-lodge.com |
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Environmental News
Moorings for the Rosalie Moller |
With the conservation work on the SS Thistlegorm successfully completed, attention has now turned to the wreck of the Rosalie Moller. Sadly, this beautiful and iconic Red Sea wreck has suffered considerable damage over the last few years.
In the next month, HEPCA will be undertaking further assessment and an installation of a mooring system to protect the fragile wreck from further damage. Due to the depth of the wreck, technical divers will be carrying out the work and the HEPCA mooring team will be supported by divers from Red Sea Explorers, Blue O Two and Diving Attitude amongst others. Conventional moorings will not be possible due to the depth and conditions, so a system of wires and ropes attached to the structure of the wreck is planned. Full details of the installation will be provided soon so keep an eye out for further announcements.
The conservation work is part of HEPCA Saving the Wrecks Campaign which has attracted massive international media interest and support.
Double the moorings!
HEPCA is currently installing new moorings throughout the Egyptian Red Sea areas of Hurghada, Safaga and El Gouna. Using a special new double manta system, they are doubling the number of moorings in the Red Sea in a mammoth project that will be completed by the end of 2008. |
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Latest offers |
Divers’ Lodge offers you premium quality at extremely competitive rates through our selected partners. Visit our partners’ websites and book now at discount rates for June 2008. Or have a look at our Specials. |
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Divers’ Lodge now on Facebook!
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Divers’ Lodge now has its own account and group on Facebook. The account and group name is Divers’ Lodge. This group is open to anyone who dived with us or will dive with us or just likes us. Use it to communicate with your guide or instructor, find back your buddy, ask questions about the diving or just have a fun time with other divers. You can join the group by searching for Divers’ Lodge and then click Join this Group. Or add Divers’ Lodge as a Friend and find the Group on the profile page. |
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Participate in our essay contest: win a week of free diving
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Write an essay/article or trip report about your diving experiences at Divers’ Lodge, for instance the best reef of best dive while you were here, or about your experiences while doing a course with us. The best article can win a 6 day diving package, worth 297 euros. Number 2 and 3 can win a 3 day diving package worth 135 euros.
Why we do this? It is quite simple. We are a diving service provider, you are a diver and you used our services and hopefully liked it. We want to know your thoughts, ideas, experiences and feedback. We want to learn from your experiences and if necessary, improve our services, so you can enjoy them even more next time you come to dive with us. And we want to share them with others by posting them on our website.
Rules of the contest
The article has to be minimum 500 words, maximum 1000 words and have to be sent in to marketing@divers-lodge.com before September 30th. The winners will be notified by e-mail and published in the October Newsletter.
Divers Lodge has the right to edit the article (make it shorter or improve spelling/style), but will not make any changes to the original meaning. The articles you submit can be published on our website. By participating in the contest you agree to transfer copyrights of the article to Divers’ Lodge.
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Dive Site of the Month: Umm Gamaar East Wall
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Umm Gamaar is an island that is surrounded by corals at 90 minutes sail from central Hurghada. Its orientation is North – South and it has a plateau at each end. In both East and West you will find walls. The moorings for the dive boats are on the South plateau. Because the island is located in the open sea and wind direction is North-South most of the time, you have to expect some current, so in order to do the deep East wall dive you need to be experienced.
This dive is a must do for underwater photographers. The steep East wall is covered with soft corals. The first two coral formations in the South have cracks and the next formation has a cavern with a sandy ledge at 29m. The South plateau is not the main attraction, as it is covered with a sandy bottom and some coral blocks, but you can often see free swimming moray eels, big silver sweetlips and napoleons here. Sometimes you can even spot a white tip reef shark patrolling the wall. Umm Gamaar is one of the few dive sites in Hurghada that sometimes is visited by Manta rays. Other stuff to see: clouds of Anthias and silversides, glassfish in almost every cavity, jackfish and tuna hunting the big schools of fusiliers and barracudas waiting for their prey. |
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Marine Life News: Symbiosis
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The gobies form the Family Gobiidae, which is one of the largest families of fish. Most are relatively small, typically less than 10 cm (4 inch) in length. Gobies are primarily fish of shallow marine habitats including tide pools, coral reefs, and sea grass meadows.
Gobies sometimes form symbiotic relationships with other species.[2] Some goby species live in symbiosis with burrowing shrimps. The shrimp maintains a burrow in the sand in which both the shrimp and the goby fish live. The shrimp has poor eyesight compared to the goby, but if it sees or feels the goby suddenly swim into the burrow, it will follow. The goby and shrimp keep in contact with each other, the shrimp using its antennae, and the goby flicking the shrimp with its tail when alarmed. These gobies are thus sometimes known as watchman, or prawn gobies.
Each party gains from this relationship: the shrimp gets a warning of approaching danger, and the goby gets a safe home and a place to lay its eggs.
Read more in The Shrimp Goby Chronicles |
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New divers
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Divers Lodge congratulates all its students that recently successfully completed a course with us:
- Sherif Farid – PADI Scuba Diver
- Jmes Smith – Open Water Diver Referral
- Hadi Abd El Latif – PADI Junior Open Water Diver
- Rebekah Herbert – PADI Open Water Diver
- Katie Dewhurst – PADI Open Water Diver
- Steve Coleman – PADI Open Water Diver
- Dee Coleman – PADI Open Water Diver
- Louis Zimmer – PADI Open Water Diver
- Darren James – PADI Open Water Diver
- Jens Lysemose Hansen – PADI Open Water Diver
- Jessica Lewis – PADI Open Water & Advanced Open Water Diver
- David Moore – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
- Peter Noyes – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
- Tania Stevenson – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
- Edwin Zerpa – PADI Rescue Diver
- Nick Youngman – TDI Trimix Diver
- Anja Boessenkamp – TDI Trimix Diver
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