Scubaversity Logo 
www.scubaversity.co.za
 
Please note are phone lines have been stolen! So have been sitting twiddling our thumbs for about a week.
 
Please phone either Colwin on 083 616 0466 or Mandy on 082 852 8253.
Sodwana
Scubaversity Sodwana Trip 28 - 31 May
Cheapest Dives Seen in Years - A Definite Must
Prices                                            Members                Non Member
Tented 3 Night / 3 Dive                     R    870                       R 1 020
Tented 3 Night / 5 Dive                     R 1 170                       R 1 320
Tented 3 Night Non Diver                 R    420                       R    570
                       
Optional Package Upgrades:
Catered Package                             R 465 per person
Hut with Linen                                  R 240 per person - Standard
Hut with Linen toilet & Shower        R 450 per person - Deluxe
Luxury En-Suite Cabins                   R 720 per person - En-Suite
 
Bookings confirmed on payment. Finalise bookings by Wednesday, 20 May 2009...
Club Social - 23 May : Just a BIG FAT PARTY
All welcome bring family & friends get out of the house & join us for an evening of fun & festivities.
 
Let's have a bit of fun - when last did you kick your shoes off, throw back your hair and made an absolute and complete fool of yourself on the dance floor. Yip I know me too - have not had the opportunity to throw my name around on the dive school dance floor for a long, long time.
 
And if you guys are feeling anything like I do, then having one big fat party is just the thing to forget about all the crappiness that tend to surround us - as explained below...
 
So please join us in raising the roof of the dive school on the 23rd of May normal time - see you here - yes all of you and if you are expecting to overindulge bring a tent!
What's Diving this Month
The up's & down's happening at Scubaversity
 
18 May - Open Water Diving Course 
 
Yip that is tonight, so give Colwin a call 083 616 0446 (sorry phone lines down at the moment). Share the bubbles with everyone and introduce your friends, family, dog... This one qualifies has the option to qualify in Sodwana (at the super dooper low prices) where else would you want to qualify.
 
20 May - Sodwana Shoot-out
 
Still time to register and blow them away with your award winning photography and by the way grab some lekker prizes.
 
21 May - Advanced Diving Course
 
Okay all you tadd-poles (open waters) time to spread your webs and explore new depths. Don't be scared the Advanced course is easy peasy and lots of fun - this one you can also qualify at Sodwana or at our local exotic Miracle Waters. 
 
26 May -Fish Identification Speciality                                                                                                    
 
Each Instructor usually finds an area of diving in which they specialise and in Annie's case her passion definitely lies in Fish Identification & Sharks (she has written her own PADI distinctive Shark Speciality - an achievement of note!). Annie has taken a lot of time, effort and research in producing her own notes as an addition to the normal PADI materials.
 
If you are going Sodwana this is ideal, otherwise you can do the lectures now and qualify the rest of the course on another trip.
 
27 May - PADI Instructor Course                                                                                                    
 
If you are a Dive Master and enjoy the training aspect of diving, want to share you passion with the world, becoming an instructor is the path for you - there is immense satisfaction in teaching other people to dive and sharing this fantastic sport.
Otherwise if you are gatvol of the corporate and daily struggle the opportunity to get a job on a remote island as a dive instructor is always a huge incentive!
Sharklife Presentation
19 May 2009
 
Did you guys watch Carte Blanch last night - those ***holes are still slaughtering our sharks. We should all be as pissed off as hell about this crap! Who are these idiot!
 
Sharklife has done a lot of work in the industry to promote & help the sharkies and I believe it is every diver's moral duty & obligation to at least be aware of the problems that our oceans are facing.
 
These creatures are truly amazing and Grant from Sharklife will give you excellent  insight.
 
Please join us on the 19th for this presentation. (no charge).
Kicking IT's.... *ss
Some stuff running around my head - screaming to get out.
 
This week Colwin and I attended a diving owners business seminar for an entire day - yip first thought is I am way to busy spend an entire day in a room full of my competitors. So had a good chuckle when Pieter Driessel (PADI Regional Manager) asked us nicely to leave our weapons outside - what is he smoking?
 
Anyway point of telling you this is that I actually found it exceptionally informative, educational and...fun... okay I'll admit the fun really started with the cheese & wine generously sponsored by Kewe (good job girls). It seems there was a slight race between myself, Amanda, Janine & Sabrina to see who could empty those nice BIG wine glasses first! I lost when Colwin dragged me away whispering in my ear that I am very loud - can you believe that - me loud - never!
 
Aahhmm... back to the point. Pieter had an excellent presentation highlighting how absolutely miserable most people CHOOSE to make their lives  - YES CHOOSE. We choose to open our arms to read the newspaper filled with blood and gore, pitch our ears to the radio stations preaching doom & gloom, open our eyes to the graphic display of hell on earth via 550 news channels...have I made my point yet... Yes we are surrounded by constant, glaring, in our face negatives...BUT we still have a choice.
 
Gonna, I can go on & on hey.
 
So I am going to call all the above the big IT in our lives and dont know about you but I want to take IT - wring its neck lots of time, then throw it on the floor, jump on it hard - like REAL hard ah yes like the nursery rhyme - "Gooi hom in die sloot - trap op sy kop dan is hy dood".
 
Sherbet I am poegaai - how bout you, but do you also have a smile on your face now?
 
Choose to be happy, choose to have fun, choose to spend time with your family instead of watching the news, choose to listen to your favourite CD instead of the politician on the radio. Turn the volume up as loud as you possibly can and sing, sing your heart out on the top of your lungs and dont worry about the guy in the car next to you - he is an IT!
 
I want Scubaversity and diving to be one of your choices. One of the choices  that makes your life WOW, fantastic! Come just think about some of your diving sights the amazing, awe-inspiring, fantabulousness that you have had the privilege of experiencing! Dancing with Manta's, Going head-on-head with Tigers, tickling a nudibranch. It takes away all thoughts of the IT factor.
 
So if we have been missing the boat - sorry IT got IT's tentacles around me but I jumped on it so all is okay now - I put IT in IT's place - drowned it in the pool.
 
To you my friend, club member, person who receives my emails randomly, next time IT claws into you give us a visit, come chill with a coffee / jaggermeister (whatever floats your boat) and let IT go! Jump in the pool and blow it away with magic bubbles, or just visit the web site and look at some photo's guaranteed to instantly put a smile on your face.
 
Scubaversity has officially become an IT antidote!
 
YAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
 
Love you all - really I do see you at the social - I am SO in the mood.
 
Cheers
Mandy
P.S. If there are any spelling, grammar or date mistakes in this email - go tell it to IT, cause I really dont care that much, little but not that much at all...
Scubaversity
011 958 2418 | sales@scubaversity.co.za |Cnr Peter & Chestnut sts Ruimsig, 1732