5 Star News
Well the New Year is off to a great start for us here at Aqua-Marina. The sun is shining with not a cloud in the sky but more significantly we have had confirmation from PADI that we are now upgraded to a PADI 5 Star Centre - one of only two on the island, and the only one here in Playa de las Americas. What this means to you divers is that you can be even more confident of the quality of equipment, service and facilities provided here.
Madge, 2nd January 2005
Happy Christmas from sunny Tenerife!
The staff at Aqua-Marina would like to wish all our Divers and friends a very happy Christmas and New Year and look forward to hopefully seeing you all in 2005!
Rhona 20th December 2004
Monarch goes to Birmingham
Those of you living in the vicinity of Birmingham, UK, may be interested to know that low-cost airline Monarch is to start daily flights between Birmingham and Tenerife from late April. It just gets easier and easier to get here.
Madge, 16th December 2004
Visit from Auntie
We have recently been honoured here in Tenerife with a two-week visit from a BBC film crew, shooting underwater film for an upcoming series. If it's good enough for the BBC, it must be official - the diving here is top class!! Can't wait to see the results of the filming.
Madge 12th December 2004
Wreck Buddy
We have just had a diver (Gary) book the Wreck Speciality course over the New Year, starting either 31st December or 2nd January. He would prefer to do the course with another diver as he quite rightly points out that these courses are more fun with someone else. So is there anyone out there who would like to join him? The normal course price is 270 Euros, but with 2 participants this drops to 220 Euros. Bargain!
Madge 4th December 2004
Angels
Madge here, glad to be back from a cold, rainy and grey UK to a warm and bright Tenerife. Today's divers were delighted to spot an Angel shark the moment they dropped into the water this morning. This species is most frequently seen in the Spring, during the mating season, but can be spotted most of the year round. They look quite similar to rays, having a flattened body, and most often lying half submerged in the sand waiting to gobble up passing fish, molluscs and crustaceans. Any shark-a-phobes out there, don't worry - these sharks are not considered a danger to man (or woman).
Madge 2 December 2004
Rhona here, holding the fort again for Madge and what a busy week it´s been! It was great to see Sharon again who keeps coming back year after year! A warm welcome back to Michael and Julie and Alan! Some great dives and Andrea has actually found a new dive site! Some new faces too and was great to meet Maciej all the way from the New York and Aki and Annamaria from Denmark.
Rhona 28 November 2004
Hi there
I'm happy to report that normal service is now resumed with the sun out again and viz back to 20-25 metres. Our divers on Tuesday's dive (Chris and Tim) were absolutely thrilled to witness one of our most beautiful rays, the marbled butterfly ray, at Playa Paraiso. And best of all Jenny was filming that day so they were able to take home evidence on dvd. This was all thanks entirely to Andy D whose ability to spot even the most well camouflaged creatures is legendary. How he spotted just the eyes showing through the sand is beyond my comprehension!
We're looking forward to welcoming in the next few days Neil, who Chris and Tim have directed to us, and who no doubt will be expecting to be shown a butterfly ray, plus repeat clients Andy C, Julie and Alan. And yes, Julie, we have now got that trolley sorted out.
Madge 18 November 2004
Stormy weather
Hello again. We've just experienced the entire average annual rainfall for Southern Tenerife in the last 48 hours. As a result the final repairs to the boat were delayed yet again, (I know that sounds barmy, but we are talking electronics) but yesterday afternoon repairs were completed and today (Thursday) we are afloat! Hurrah! Viz is reduced to a shocking 15 metres or so as a result of the stormy weather, but we expect normal service of 25 metres to be resumed very soon.
Madge 11 November 2004
Madge here back in the driving seat after our trip to the Dive Show in the UK. Brrrr it's cold over there!
Thanks to all of you who paid us a visit at our stand. It was great to touch base with some familiar faces as well as to meet many new ones. For your information, the winners over the two days for the masks are: Joan Houghton, Fiona Campbell, Mr/Mrs Westgate, Kathy Pennington, Libby Foster, Nicola Urmson, Ian Petty, Kurt Hamer, Paul Robinson, John Jobling, David Macinnes, Paul Williams and Dot Williams. (John, if you see this, I need your postcode!)
And the overall winner for the holiday is CORINNE EVANS We look forward to welcoming Corinne and her chosen guest to Tenerife despite the fact that she didn´t scream down the phone at us when she heard she was the winner.She claims she would have if she´d been on the radio!
Madge 8th November
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