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 | | Author: | Alex Varnals | Created: | Sunday, March 04, 2007 9:00 AM |  | | Alex & Kat's Blog of the going's on at Diving Leisure Leeds.... |
| Advanced Open Water Success! | |
| By Alex Varnals onSaturday, September 23, 2006 8:26 AM | |
| Bowline, round turn and two half hitches and a day playing with a compass. Thanks to Nick and Chris, we now have two newly qualified Advanced Open Water divers, Allison and Sadie.
Cathy has also created a navigating guru in Nicole, who now after several weekends with the Diving Leisure gang has become a hardened UK diver, I warned you Nicole it was only a matter of time. |  | |
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| | Advanced Open Water Dives | |
| By Alex Varnals onSaturday, September 16, 2006 8:25 AM | |
| After an early start Sadie & Allison completed the first three dives of their PADI Advanced Open Water diver course under the instruction of Nick Sykes with Chris Dalby as their Divemaster and Cathy Preen as shore cover.
The dives they completed at Stoney Cove were the Deep, Wreck and Peak Performance Buoyancy adventure dives. The Diving Leisure Leeds team would like to congratulate them on how well they are doing and how quickly their skills are developing. | | |
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| | Dry Suit Acheived! | |
| By Alex Varnals onSunday, September 10, 2006 8:24 AM | |
| Congratulations to Lisa and Stephen who completed their PADI Drysuit Specialty Diver Course on Sunday with Nick, Cathy and Chris at Blue Lagoon. The weather was great, which makes a change and the water was still warm.
Vanessa, Hannah and Martin also came along to have a splash, more for fun and to practice their navigation. Well done to you all. See you again soon. | | |
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| | PADI Open Water Completed | |
| By Alex Varnals onSunday, September 03, 2006 8:23 AM | |
| Congratulations to Aaron McKenna who completed the final three dives of his PADI Open Water diver course. With the help of Alex Varnals and Mike Fell, the days diving at Capernwray went really well.
We would also like to congratulate his brother, Nick McKenna, who completed his Peak Performance Buoynacy Specialty diver course under the guidance of Iain Bowler and Chris Dalby.
Nicola Noble completed part of her Open Water diver course and will be joining us at Capernwray on 23rd September to complete the course.
The Diving Leisure Leeds Club is spreading its wings, as we also had a group of divers out for the day at Capernwray on Sunday; Vanessa, Nicole, Gaz, Dave & Dave got two great dives in and saw nearly every attraction Capernwray has to offer. | | |
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| | Open Water Success! | |
| By Alex Varnals onSunday, August 27, 2006 8:21 AM | |
| A combination of training and pleasure diving at 8 Acre Lake. 4 open water students preparing for their course and a number of the Diving Leisure Leeds Club joining us for a fun day of diving led by Vanessa and Iain.
The Open Water group, including Charlotte Wilson, Aaron McKenna, Nicola Noble and Kate Barker, had their first experience of UK diving. Led by Alex, Gaz and Mike, the four divers worked very hard and deserved the signature "Sausage & Egg Butty" that Dave & Michelle from 8 Acre Lake are famous for.
The group pleasure diving consisted of Vanessa, Nicole, Sadie, Allison, Dave, Iain, Sharon, Shannon, Chris, Mark, Katrina and Mark. Keep checking the local diving section for our next UK diving adventure..... | | |
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| | Club Night At TGIs | |
| By Alex Varnals onThursday, August 24, 2006 8:19 AM | |
| Diving Leisure Leeds Club Night @ TGI Fridays. For those of you that joined us for our first Diving Leisure club night in Leeds, West Yorkshire, we hope you all enjoyed yourself as much as we did. This was a great opportunity for you to meet the now extended dive instructional team of Nick Sykes, Cathy Preen and Iain Bowler who are now teaching with Diving Leisure Leeds.
For those of you that didn't manage to make it the dive club provided TGI Fridays style food for all and everyone bought themselves drinks. While the dive team were talking to you all we got everyone to fill in a survey about what type of diving people want to do, the results will be circulated soon. Check out the Local Diving - Leeds page which has now been updated with more trips as requested by you, our Leeds Club!! See you all soon.... | | |
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| | Junior Open Water | |
| By Alex Varnals onTuesday, August 15, 2006 8:17 AM | |
| Congratulations to Shannon who has just completed her PADI Jnr Open Water Diver course and Lauren who has completed her PADI Scuba Diver course. Both the girls worked very hard in challenging visibility at 8 Acre Lake, but fun was had by us all. With Alex, Mike and Chris there was plenty of staff on hand to lend assistance, but none was needed.
Diving Leisure is always very proud to certify any youngsters who take up diving at a young age. Shannon has even taken up the Master Scuba Diver Challenge and is already booked on to complete five specialties, which will put her nicely on her way to her target. Keep up the good work girls... | | |
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