In This Issue
Summer Saver
Trip Advisor Winners
Sport Diver Visit
New Beer O'clock Look
Summer Greetings
New Treasure Hunter Course
Divemasters
Facebook Changes
Summer Saver
 
Naama BayBook your holiday to start and finish between 16 June and 6 July and you can benefit from a further saving on our accommodation and diving package.

For only 349 Euros you can have 7 nights accommodation, 6 days diving and airport transfers with free nitrox.  That's the equivalent of only 280* Sterling!

Click here for further details. 

* Based on xe.com 20/05/2012  
Trip Advisor Winner!
A huge thank you to everyone who was written a review about Oonas Dive Club on the Trip Advisor site.

We are very proud to be one of the winners of the Travellers' Choice Awards for 2012.
Trip Advisor Travellers Choice Winner

Thanks to all your input Oonas Dive Club is now ranked 8th out of 228 hotels in Sharm El Sheikh.

If you want to see reviews that guests have written, please click here and maybe you will feel like writing your own.

Thank you all,  we couldn't do it without you :-)
Sport Diver Magazine visits Oonas
Sport Diver Magazine We were very pleased to receive a visit from the Sport Diver magazine team who spent a day  with us in the Ras Mohammed National Park and then afterwards sampling our famous beer o'clock!  The team visited 6 dive centres in Sharm with a view to writing a special two part report on what it is like diving in this part of the Red Sea.

Watch out for the August and September issues  to see what they found.  Or visit the website www.sportdiver.co.uk for an offer on annual subscriptions.
New look for Beer O'Clock
New furtniture Visitors to Oonas will now be able to relax in the comfort of our new outdoor furniture - you will never want to leave beer o'clock now! 
 
 
Tank Bangers Lids

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Oonas Dive Club
Sharm El Sheikh
Ornate Ghost Pipefish
Summer Greetings from
Oonas Dive Club
 
It's hard to believe the summer is already upon us, with long sunny days, balmy evenings and warming waters - it's a lovely time to be diving in the Red Sea.  The Mantas are expected any minute now and the fish are already starting to shoal at some of our favourite spots like Ras Umm Sid and Shark & Yolanda.

But the excitement of the year so far has been the daily
Hermit Crabdiscoveries of an incredible variety of macro life including nudibranchs,  ghost pipefish, squids, cuttlefish and crustaceans.  The picture above shows an Ornate Ghost Pipefish (one of a family of three) who took up residence on the house reef for a few months and alongside, is a great shot of a hermit crab discovered during a night dive.  With 3 Photography Workshops scheduled this year there is so much to capture and the summer hasn't even really begun!

Here's hoping to see you all out here for some fabulous diving and our special brand of Oonas Apres Dive!

With very best wishes from the Oonas Dive Club Team!

 
Treasure Hunter comes to Oonas
 
Treasure HunterCongratulations to Oonas Dive Club Instructor Kevin Grice,  who has written a new PADI sanctioned Speciality to teach underwater treasure hunting.  Using an underwater metal detector this new subject is designed to teach the methods and techniques needed to discover what treasure lies beneath the sea floor.

Over the course of two dives, you will get the opportunity to scan the seabed using this highly sensitive piece of kit and who knows what you might find!  

In addition, the course can be counted towards one of the five specialities that are required for the prestigious Master Scuba Diver certification.

For more information about the course please e-mail us at info@oonasdiveclub.com

Divemasters
Last year we had a bumper crop of Divemasters many of whom you will have seen celebrating in previous issues of this newsletter.  To finish off the year Jonathan Anderson and Sarah Gaudin successfully completed their Divemaster Internships - congratulations both of you!  Extra thumbs up to Jonathan who also went on to pass his PADI Instructor exams in May .

Big apologies also to Hazel Griffin who was missed off the  Roll of Honour published in our last newsletter - congratulations Divemaster Hazel!!!

Celebrations and big smiles - divemasters and instructors:

Hazel DMTJonathan DMTSarah DMT
   Hazel Griffin               Jonathan Anderson               Sarah Gaudin 

 If you want more information about our Divemaster course please click here
We need you to like us!
Many of you will have seen that due to Facebook changes, we have had to set up a new "Page" for Oonas Dive Club but we were unable to transfer all our friends from our old group.

Unfortunately, you have to "LIKE" our new page before you can receive regular updates or post on our page.   So please click on the button below if you would like to keep in touch:

Click the button:       Like us on Facebook

You can even "Invite your friends" to the page using the button on the lefthand side of our Facebook page.



And finally ...............................

 

Congratulations to Rachel Hurst who won a free holiday for two at Oonas Dive Club, which was donated in support of the great work done by the Tankbangers Charity

The competition was run at this year's London Dive Show and the winning entry was pulled out of the hat by celebrity diver and journalist, Monty Hall.

We look forward to seeing you in September, Rachel!