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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.... |
| PADI Underwater Digital Photography Success! | |
| By Alex Varnals onSaturday, January 27, 2007 9:43 AM | |
| | Congratulations to Nick Mckenna who completed his PADI Digital Underwater Photography course at Capernwray. The water was a chilly 6 degrees, however, with two forty minute dives produced a number of great shots. Hopefully we will be updating the website, mainly the gallery section, so that we can upload lots of your photo's onto the site. |  | |
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| | New Pool Schedule | |
| By Alex Varnals onFriday, January 26, 2007 9:42 AM | |
| With the aim of trying to offer as much pool time access as possible to our local divers, we are happy to announce the new pool schedule for 2007, the times are as follows:
Wednesday 6pm - 9pm
Tong Recreation Centre, Bradford
This pool is 3.1m (10ft) deep with a shallow end, which is ideal for developing your skills in shallow water then moving to the deep end as your confidence builds.
Friday 8pm - 9.45pm
Leeds International Pool, Diving Pit
The Diving Pit is 5m (16ft) deep and the perfect location to practice your ascent and descent skills, but don’t worry if this is a bit daunting at first, we have a separate training pool along side the Diving Pit as well on a Friday’s, where you can master your skills before taking on THE PIT. | | |
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| | Diving Leisure Leeds Now Open! | |
| By Alex Varnals onMonday, January 08, 2007 9:40 AM | |
| | At long last, we are pleased, no ecstatic to announce that our long awaited move to Castleton Close Industrial Estate has finally taken place. On Monday 8th January 2007 we officially opened the doors to our Leeds' newest PADI 5 Star Career Development Centre and National Geopgraphic Centre. | | |
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| | New Assistant Instructors | |
| By Alex Varnals onMonday, December 11, 2006 9:39 AM | |
| Congratulations to Chris Dalby, Lawrence Peet, Andy Hough and Dave Liddell who have worked hard to complete their PADI Assistant Instructor course. After several days of hard work the guys passed with flying colours. We look forward to having you all on our instructional team in the New Year. Well done. | | |
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| | NIght Divers! | |
| By Alex Varnals onThursday, November 30, 2006 9:38 AM | |
| | Congrautlations to Yana, Martin and Sharon who completed their PADI Night Diver Specialty today in Dahab, Egypt. With their last dive being on Lighthouse Reef seeing lionfish, spanish dancers, guilded pipefish and loads of other stuff. Well done. | | |
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| | Dahab, Egypt | |
| By Alex Varnals onSaturday, November 11, 2006 9:35 AM | |
| Dahab, Egypt holiday 25th Nov - 2nd Dec 2006 was a complete success. We stayed at the Coral Coast Hotel, right on the beach in Dahab. Fantasea hosted our recreational divers with dives at the Islands, the Eel Gardens and the Canyon, our divers were fortunate enough to have the warmth of 24 degree waters for the week.
Our technical divers had the pleasure of Tom from Fantasea TEC, to guide them on several fantastic dives including the famous Blue Hole Archway, a 60m overhead environment dive, that is not for the faint hearted. | | |
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| | Club Night | |
| By Alex Varnals onThursday, October 19, 2006 8:33 AM | |
| Diving Leisure Leeds Club night was a huge success, with over 50 people at the event at TGI Fridays. With information about Diving in Leeds, our foreign dive trips to Egypt, Gozo and Mexico and our Tec Dive (30m+) schedule there was something for everyone.
If you missed the club night do not dispare as our Christmas Club night is coming soon! | | |
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| | Dive 200 At The NEC | |
| By Alex Varnals onSaturday, October 14, 2006 8:32 AM | |
| diving leisure tec had a stand on the IANTD stand at the Dive 2006 at the Birmingham NEC on Sat/Sun 14th/15th October.
We were at the show promoting the IANTD Advanced Nitrox and Advanced Recreational Trimix courses which are both designed to extend both depth and time underwater. There was alot of interest and the courses are filling up quickly. If you are interested contact Alex. | | |
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| | Diving Leisure Invasion | |
| By Alex Varnals onSunday, October 08, 2006 8:31 AM | |
| Eight Acre Lake was the scene of an invasion this weekend. A Diving Leisure invasion. With 18 divers at the dive site we seemed to take over. I was particularly impressed with Allison's dedication to her recently learned skills from her AOW course as she turned up at the dive site with her two lengths of rope for knot tying practice..
Alex and Luke were busy helping Richard and Ross complete their PADI Junior Rescue Diver course. Iain, Mike and Dave worked well as a team both in the pool and open water helping Cameron and Graeme through their PADI Open Water training. Charlotte completed the first half of her training and will be joining us in a couple of weeks to finish her Junior PADI Open Water diver course.
Nick, Allison, Sharon and Shannon were superbly guided by our new navigation guru Nicole who seems to have taken to the role of guide to the dive site. | | |
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| | 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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