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December 03, 2004

First full Tekstreme safari - total success!

With new Tekstreme teams now up and running in Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh and Dahab, Paul Vinten reports on the first Tekstreme safari from Sharm. Rather enjoyable it seems!

Report from Paul Vinten, Tekstreme tech safari, 18 - 25 November

"We left from Sharm going north with 11 trimix divers on a mixture of Closed and Open circuit systems. The guides were myself along with Michael Heuze who runs tekstreme in Sharm.

It was our responsibility to oversee all the gas mixing and blending in order to ensure the guests had their required trimix and decompression gases for the dives. In addition to this, we had to give 'slightly different' dive site briefings to those given on the day boats!

Our diving included a long penetration dive on the wreck of the Rosalie Muller, dives to over 100m on the beautiful walls at Ras Mohammed, explorations of the deep caves at depths of down to 90m at Jackfish Alley and a tour down the stunning canyon of Thomas Reef at Tiran.

The safari was a great success and as the guests departed, they were already talking of next year's trip!"

Places are now available on the next Tech Safari: 11 - 18 February 2005.

To book or for more information,
email safaris@emperordivers.com

December 02, 2004

Oceanic White Tips galore! Fraser and Kev come up trumps!

So you want to see sharks? Head for Elphinstone! Kev Moore did aboard Fraser, and had the dive of his life - luckily he had his camera!

Kev Moore and his partner set off from Marsa Alam for a liveaboard adventure aboard Fraser recently. Towards the end of the week, Kev dived Elphinstone with its sheer walls covered in soft corals. Here you sometimes see Hammerheads, sometimes you meet Grey Reef Sharks.

This time, Kev encountered a number of Oceanic White Tips over the last two days of his holiday.

"A simply fantastic way to finish a truly great diving holiday," says Kev.These photos were taken over the two days, some at dusk, on the Southern plateau of Elphinstone Reef. Thanks for sharing them with us Kev!

Which just goes to show that the dive sites around Hurghada and Marsa Alam have some fantastic diving to offer!