Emperor Divers News

Emperor Nuweiba is saving you half the price on the following specialties during the winter...

• December  Night Diver (3 dives)    Cost: 75 Euro (usually 150 Euro
• January   Digital photography  (Level 1 & 2)*  Cost: 60 Euro (usually 120 Euro) 
• February  Videography (3 dives)   Cost: 75 Euro (usually 150 Euro)
• March      Enriched Air Nitrox Diver (2 dives)   Cost: 50 Euro (usually 100 Euro)

You can use these courses to familiarise yourself with the techniques, knowledge, planning, organisation, potential hazards and safety skills for various areas of diving. The Specialty Course is a safe and supervised introduction to that area. We do ask that you complete one day's recreational diving before taking a specialty course to check weights, buoyancy and equipment.

There is no manual needed for the Videography course and the cost of the camera rental is also down by 50%. So in February, you can make some great savings as it will be 75 Euro instead of 150 Euro excluding tax.

Email reservations@emperordivers.com today and save your place!

When it's fabulous diving in a great choice of locations, look no further than Oxygène and Emperor Divers.

Hurghada: Seek some warmth in the approaching winter months and take advantage of our Great Special Offer*:

2 for 1 dive package - SAVE up to 293 Euro! Valid for arrivals: 01 Jan 2009 - 08 Mar 2009.

 

 

Marsa Alam: The location just couldn't be better and the facilities are second-to-none. You're just a few metres away from our boats moored on the hotel jetty and the airport is just 10-minutes drive. Go dive at Abu Dabab where there's a good chance of seeing the famous dugong - a great day out for all the family as this is an easy dive and snorkellers also get the chance to spot this fascinating creature.

 

 

 

Nuweiba: The fantastic shore diving makes this the ideal place if you're a learner or a keen underwater photographer. Renowned diving photographer, Maria Munn, holds her highly popular digital photo courses here with spectacular results. Or take a day trip to Dahab!

 

Sharm El Sheikh: Sharm's famous dive sites, beach dives, wrecks and reefs keep budding and experienced divers happy, whilst non-divers can enjoy coral reef snorkelling, watersports or leisurely lazing on the beaches. There's an amazing abundance of marine life from hammerheads to barracuda plus great wrecks and day trips to Dahab.

From October 2008, Emperor Divers is teaming up with Oxygene Diving. With its roots in Scandinavia, Oxygène is an international network of dive retail stores, dive resorts and liveaboards in Sweden, Finland, England, Malta, The Red Sea Egypt, Philippines, Pemba, Croatia, Estonia, Canada and Tenerife. The Oxygène Diving core values are: Caring, Competence and Fun.

Oxygene was looking to expand its dive centre chain to the Red Sea in order to offer its client-base more destination choice and saw Emperor Divers as the most suited dive centre for their high standards and so the marketing cooperation was formed.

"We are delighted to be working with Emperor Divers," says Henrik Almers, CEO of Oxygene International. Emperor Divers' General Manager, Mike Braun, added, "We have always aimed high to provide excellent service levels and products. We immediately recognized a high level of affinity with the core values of the Oxygene group and believe that this cooperation will bring benefits to our business and, more importantly, to our customers."

If you have been happy diving with us, please show your support and vote for us as Dive Centre of the Year in the Diver Awards 2008.

This is a great accolade for a company as it's you who makes the choice as to who wins!

Complete the voting form and you'll be in with a chance of winning a trip for two to Indonesia worth £3,000!

Click here for your voting form

This year's NEC Dive Show proved a great success on the Emperor Divers' stand.  As always, it's a great chance to catch up with guests, to chat about what's happening in Emperor's Red Sea and to share our diving experience with you.

And it was so refreshing to see that the blighted credit crunch doesn't seem to have stopped people from booking their diving. This year saw nearly twice as many people booking online with Emperor at the show than last year! Heartening to know that not all is doom and gloom out there.

 

Exploration Safaris take you to reef systems that other safari boats have never dived. Here's your chance to discover and explore new sites that even our most experienced dive guides have never visited before. We can't guarantee what you'll discover but we can guarantee a memorable time and an exciting adventure. It could be you discovering new ancient wreck (see Diver magazine July 2008); an unknown destroyer such as the Myngs or a pristine reef! On the first and last days you'll dive some of the best know reefs in the St Johns and Fury Shoals area.

Best of Exploration Safaris take you to the most interesting sites discovered on the previous four years of Exploration Safaris. Come with us to the 'top secret' sites where you'll dive the best known reefs (Daedalus, Elphinstone and St. Johns) with far lesser known sites as far south as the Elba Reef system. You might see other boats at the better known sites but we can almost guarantee you will be alone with the sea, reefs and your fellow divers on quite a few of the days.

2009

01 - 15 May 'Best of Exploration'

17 - 31 July 'Exploration'

20 November - 4 December 'Exploration'

Other dates available to groups on request

Ute began her diving life in Germany's dark and cold Baltic Sea but soon discovered the pleasures of diving in warm water on several holidays to Thailand. She then spent a year dive guiding in Dahab and working for Emperor Divers in Nuweiba. Many liveaboard guests will know Ute from her time as a safari guide for Emperor in the southern Egyptian Red Sea.

    Jim learnt to dive in Stoney Cove, England back in 1991 and was immediately hooked! After many courses and pleasure dives in England, he became a PADI instructor in Malta and moved on to Hurghada in 1993 to work as an instructor and dive guide. Since then he has also worked in Dahab and Nuweiba. Along with Ute, he became a safari guide for Emperor covering the southern Egyptian Red Sea in 2005.

They are both delighted to be returning to the tranquil and picturesque setting of Nuweiba - literally picture perfect as it's a fabulous location to learn and improve photo techniques - and to be realising their ambitions of managing an Emperor dive centre.
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Jeff Goodman, director and award-winning cameraman, is to lead a new series of courses aimed at improving the art of good underwater video production while at the same time realising the incredible wealth and diversity of our planet's marine life.

These new courses are being pioneered by Emperor Divers on Gold Fleet luxury liveaboards in May and November 2009. A maximum of 10 guests will be able to learn from one of the best underwater cameramen in the industry and will need their own video camera and housing for filming and a laptop with associated equipment for editing.

"This is ideal for divers who are competent in the water and have good background knowledge of how their camera works. We'll be looking at how to get the best out of their camera systems and exploring the techniques of observing and capturing wildlife behaviour with an end goal of producing a professional looking two-minute DVD," explains Jeff.

Robert Eagle and pal Henry from Melton Divers had such a good time in Hurghada recently that Robert wrote a little ode about their time on Emperor Superior...well done you!

In July it was my good fortune to be Aboard Emperor Superior sailing the Red Sea For our group it was the first trip Aboard this splendid live-aboard ship Fitted out no expense spared Luxury accommodation we all shared Lisa the Red Sea Belle And her partner Nick looked after us well Our destination two islands called The Brothers One much larger than the other Little Brother our first dive Proved to be a bumpy ride As the Zodiac rode wave after wave It was a dive fit only for the brave! Dive site reached without a blip We left the Zodiac with a backward flip What a treat this dive proved to be A panoply of sights to see Full grown Reef Sharks and a Thresher too Swimming out in the blue Two days we spent at this dive spot With strong currents and weather hot Finally we said goodbye And set off for other sites to try Salem Express and El Arish El-Tor Two wrecked Ferries on the sea floor An hour long dive at Ras Disha With all the life and fish a Diver could hope to see When diving in the clear Red Sea We finally docked at port Hurghada The crew and guides could not have worked harder To make our holiday one to remember When sitting by the fire in cold December All too soon the week was done As we flew home in the setting sun.