DIVE-TEK Cyprus Spring Newsletter

Rob Jones · 31st May 2007, 12:59

NEWS...NEWS...NEW…NEWS...NEWS

The newsletter of DIVE-TEK CYPRUS, the only

100% Tech Diving facility in Cyprus

2nd QUARTER 2007

Hi Folks,

Well, it’s certainly hotting-up over here, with temperatures around 30°C, blue skies, blue seas, and ice-cold beers!

April kicked-off with a 10-day visit from Stuart Ford and his wife, Sarah, who came over for a break to chill out and get some Zenobia diving in. Stuart was also trialing a new handset config on the Meg – his report can be seen at: http://www.rebreatherworld.com/rebreather-accessories-articles/11692-universal-rebreather-monitor.html#post113509 . Many thanks for the coverage, Stuart.

Stuart’s departure was closely followed by Rasmus Lauritsen arriving from Nortech Denmark, to start running a solid month of training through April/May, with a steady stream of IANTD students completing Meg, COPIS Meg and Ouroboros (1st in Cyprus!!?) Mod 1, and both CCR & OC Technical Wreck programs. Congrats go to the following:

Dr Ludvig Osajbok
Peter Skov Johansen
Jon Runde (Mr X!)
Vegard Sandvik
Jesper Kjoller
Damir Mlinaric
Fredrik & Anna J
Moreton Lundh
Peter Crane

Special thanks must go to Jesper Kjoller of Dyk magazine (Diver Mag’s sister) for coming over to write an article on the Tech Wreck course at Rasmus’
invitation, and to do some coverage of Dive-Tek. His article should be appearing in Dyk around September, and hopefully may get published in Diver, too J.

Pete Crane and I also got into the spirit of things, with Pete completing Meg Mod1, and IANTD Advanced Nitrox Instructor. Yours truly did a crossover to Normoxic Trimix Instructor, and also Instructor ratings for Trimix Blender and LSST. Many thanks, Rasmus, making coffee for you every morning was worth it

)!

Rasmus has scheduled courses running here in August and September for CCR and Tech Wreck, so check our website for details, or drop us a line if interested.

DIVE CENTRE

Behind schedule (it’s Cyprus…!), but near completion, the Dive Centre will be fully functional next month, with all planned improvements in-place, including:

Mixing facility – dedicated mixing facility, with fully automated compressor system, 300bar banks, twin-outlet electric gas booster, more O2 & Helium, plenty of Rebreather cylinders and aluminium bail-outs
Shop/office – air-conditioned shop and office, with new product lines
Classroom & student/diver area – plenty of diver dry-space, and IT resources with printer, PC, Digital Projector and FREE wireless internet connection!
Workshop – increased bench area & facilities for customer Rebreather stripdowns
Parking – more spaces & rear entrance
Wash-down area and kit storage
DVD’s – the first Zenobia Tech Diving DVD
Poseidon & Apeks dealer & service centre
Cylinder visual testing & O2 Cleaning (SITA / ASSET Technicians)

We also have FREE tea & coffee facilities, ice-cold soft drinks available (sorry, not free!), and supply bottled mineral water for boat dives, also FOC. A daily freshly-made sandwich service is also available Monday-Friday.

We are always seeking other dive centres and clubs to work with, taking your customer or club referrals for Tech courses, Summer & Winter breaks, and Zenobia diving. Please drop us a line if you’d like to find out more. We also welcome non-tekkies through our associate PADI, BSAC & ITDA Sports Diving centre, Scandidive Cyprus. Drop Clive at Scandidive a line at: info@scandidivecyprus.com for info.

TRAINING & TRIPS

We still have places available in August and September for Mod 1 and Tech Wreck with Rasmus – drop us a line if interested. We also have 2 places on Normoxic Trimix 12th -19th August available. Diver Medic and Blender courses are being run end of June, and BSAC Tech courses are scheduled to start in July. Check website or email for info.

For BSAC members, we’ll shortly be getting some write-ups about Cyprus diving and the Zenobia, with photos, onto the Travel Club site, at the kind invitation of Alison Boler, so keep an eye out. We’ve teamed-up with local BSAC Training Centre, Scandidive Cyprus, to offer a full BSAC service to members, branches and schools, and welcome all enquiries for Technical and Sport training, diving support and branch hosting, shore or Zenobia diving. Special package deals are available for Instructors and organised groups. Contact us for details.

We’ll be putting together some Training Package deals for this Winter, with one-week trips to include accommodation, airport transfers, 2/3 Dry Course (Blender, Technician, Medic etc.), and 2-days diving all-in. Watch this space…

Mark Powell still has some places for his October trip, so contact him for details – info@dive-tech.co.uk

FINALLY…

Our website is STILL being continually up-dated (in-between dives!), and has some new improvements including a comprehensive Links page to other useful sites and supporters. If you would like to add your site, please contact us and we'll be happy to exchange reciprocal links. We’ll also have the long-promised Downloads page up shortly, with plenty of info for students and divers alike.

For those acquainted with Colin Mackenzie (GT) and Dan Parker’s crowd back in UK, they’ve got a full season planned, so we hope to get some reports of their wreck trips soon.

Future dates for your diary – we’ll be at NEC 13/14 October, on the ITDA stand #940, so drop-in and make yourselves known.

Meantime, wetsuits are order of the day, the sea’s like a millpond, so get on over for some training or deep Zen penetration (?!). We’ve got some new discounted hotel or s/c apartment accommodation (the Kama’s shut-down – sorry, Mark), we’ll organize your airport transfers, and guide you to the better food & watering holes!

Hope to see you out here for 2007.

josepherely · 31st July 2007, 18:11

Interesting update Rob,

I was wondering beyond the Zenobia, are there any deep wrecks on the island; and could you give a flavour for the deeper sites you know, deeper in this sense meaning down to the 100m mark. Also what are the chances of getting the weather blowing out diving at the end of October / begining of November

Thanks
Joe

31st May 2007, 12:59	#1 (permalink)
Rob Jones Dive-Tek Cyprus Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Cyprus Posts: 29	DIVE-TEK Cyprus Spring Newsletter NEWS...NEWS...NEW…NEWS...NEWS The newsletter of DIVE-TEK CYPRUS, the only 100% Tech Diving facility in Cyprus 2nd QUARTER 2007 Hi Folks, Well, it’s certainly hotting-up over here, with temperatures around 30°C, blue skies, blue seas, and ice-cold beers! April kicked-off with a 10-day visit from Stuart Ford and his wife, Sarah, who came over for a break to chill out and get some Zenobia diving in. Stuart was also trialing a new handset config on the Meg – his report can be seen at: http://www.rebreatherworld.com/rebreather-accessories-articles/11692-universal-rebreather-monitor.html#post113509 . Many thanks for the coverage, Stuart. Stuart’s departure was closely followed by Rasmus Lauritsen arriving from Nortech Denmark, to start running a solid month of training through April/May, with a steady stream of IANTD students completing Meg, COPIS Meg and Ouroboros (1st in Cyprus!!?) Mod 1, and both CCR & OC Technical Wreck programs. Congrats go to the following: Dr Ludvig Osajbok Peter Skov Johansen Jon Runde (Mr X!) Vegard Sandvik Jesper Kjoller Damir Mlinaric Fredrik & Anna J Moreton Lundh Peter Crane Special thanks must go to Jesper Kjoller of Dyk magazine (Diver Mag’s sister) for coming over to write an article on the Tech Wreck course at Rasmus’ invitation, and to do some coverage of Dive-Tek. His article should be appearing in Dyk around September, and hopefully may get published in Diver, too J. Pete Crane and I also got into the spirit of things, with Pete completing Meg Mod1, and IANTD Advanced Nitrox Instructor. Yours truly did a crossover to Normoxic Trimix Instructor, and also Instructor ratings for Trimix Blender and LSST. Many thanks, Rasmus, making coffee for you every morning was worth it )! Rasmus has scheduled courses running here in August and September for CCR and Tech Wreck, so check our website for details, or drop us a line if interested. DIVE CENTRE Behind schedule (it’s Cyprus…!), but near completion, the Dive Centre will be fully functional next month, with all planned improvements in-place, including: Mixing facility – dedicated mixing facility, with fully automated compressor system, 300bar banks, twin-outlet electric gas booster, more O2 & Helium, plenty of Rebreather cylinders and aluminium bail-outs Shop/office – air-conditioned shop and office, with new product lines Classroom & student/diver area – plenty of diver dry-space, and IT resources with printer, PC, Digital Projector and FREE wireless internet connection! Workshop – increased bench area & facilities for customer Rebreather stripdowns Parking – more spaces & rear entrance Wash-down area and kit storage DVD’s – the first Zenobia Tech Diving DVD Poseidon & Apeks dealer & service centre Cylinder visual testing & O2 Cleaning (SITA / ASSET Technicians) We also have FREE tea & coffee facilities, ice-cold soft drinks available (sorry, not free!), and supply bottled mineral water for boat dives, also FOC. A daily freshly-made sandwich service is also available Monday-Friday. We are always seeking other dive centres and clubs to work with, taking your customer or club referrals for Tech courses, Summer & Winter breaks, and Zenobia diving. Please drop us a line if you’d like to find out more. We also welcome non-tekkies through our associate PADI, BSAC & ITDA Sports Diving centre, Scandidive Cyprus. Drop Clive at Scandidive a line at: info@scandidivecyprus.com for info. TRAINING & TRIPS We still have places available in August and September for Mod 1 and Tech Wreck with Rasmus – drop us a line if interested. We also have 2 places on Normoxic Trimix 12th -19th August available. Diver Medic and Blender courses are being run end of June, and BSAC Tech courses are scheduled to start in July. Check website or email for info. For BSAC members, we’ll shortly be getting some write-ups about Cyprus diving and the Zenobia, with photos, onto the Travel Club site, at the kind invitation of Alison Boler, so keep an eye out. We’ve teamed-up with local BSAC Training Centre, *Scandidive Cyprus, to offer a full BSAC service to members, branches and schools, and welcome all enquiries for Technical and Sport training, diving support and branch hosting, shore or Zenobia diving. Special package deals are available for Instructors and organised groups. Contact us for details. We’ll be putting together some Training Package deals for this Winter, with one-week trips to include accommodation, airport transfers, 2/3 Dry Course (Blender, Technician, Medic etc.), and 2-days diving all-in. Watch this space… Mark Powell still has some places for his October trip, so contact him for details – info@dive-tech.co.uk FINALLY…* Our website is STILL being continually up-dated (in-between dives!), and has some new improvements including a comprehensive Links page to other useful sites and supporters. If you would like to add your site, please contact us and we'll be happy to exchange reciprocal links. We’ll also have the long-promised Downloads page up shortly, with plenty of info for students and divers alike. For those acquainted with Colin Mackenzie (GT) and Dan Parker’s crowd back in UK, they’ve got a full season planned, so we hope to get some reports of their wreck trips soon. Future dates for your diary – we’ll be at NEC 13/14 October, on the ITDA stand #940, so drop-in and make yourselves known. Meantime, wetsuits are order of the day, the sea’s like a millpond, so get on over for some training or deep Zen penetration (?!). We’ve got some new discounted hotel or s/c apartment accommodation (the Kama’s shut-down – sorry, Mark), we’ll organize your airport transfers, and guide you to the better food & watering holes! Hope to see you out here for 2007. __________________ Rob Jones Tel: + 357 99 110249 e-mail: info@divetekcyprus.com www.divetekcyprus.com
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31st July 2007, 18:11	#2 (permalink)
josepherely New Member Current Rebreather/s: Inspiration Classic Inspiration Vision Evolution Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Belgium Posts: 16	Re: DIVE-TEK Cyprus Spring Newsletter Interesting update Rob, I was wondering beyond the Zenobia, are there any deep wrecks on the island; and could you give a flavour for the deeper sites you know, deeper in this sense meaning down to the 100m mark. Also what are the chances of getting the weather blowing out diving at the end of October / begining of November Thanks Joe __________________ Mines a Leffe blond
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