Scuba diving blog

Here at Diamond Diving on the Cote d’Azur we’re the first to admit we’re not the cheapest dive school in the area.  We are firm believers that with dive training you don’t cut corners and of course we pride ourselves on good service and small numbers.  All of that of course comes at a price, particularly when running a small business in this part of the world.

That said we obviously want you, our clients, to dive much as possible and we want to make you regular divers, so help is at hand to extend your annual diving budgets with us in the form of our « Introduce a Friend » scheme.  The scheme has proved popular over the past couple of years with a number of clients significantly extending their dive purchasing power by bringing friends along to share their new found passion.  After all, diving is a really sociable activity.

The scheme is based on a points system.  If you introduce someone who signs up for an Open Water, Advanced or Rescue Course you get five points and a free fun dive, and this descends down a sliding scale to half a point for introducing someone who comes for one fun dive.  If you have any questions please call us on 0615305223 or e-mail info@www.diamonddiving.net

Basically five points equals one free fun dive or the first half of a Discover Scuba Diving experience.

We recommend you take two minutes to check out this video on our YouTube channel that gives a good feel for what we are about, the Cote d’Azur, the diving, the beautiful coastline, and typically how happy our clients are with the service we offer.

For more videos of the diving in the area you can subscibe to our YouTube channel, « DiamondDiving1 ».

My Animoto Video

This is a great two minute promotional video showing the brilliant coastline, great surroundings, the team, our RIB, some good underwater and surface shots and plenty of very happy clients.  Enjoy!

When can I do my Advanced? What does it involve? How much does it cost? What does it entail?

I am extremely proud and happy to count myself amongst the family of PADI Course Directors. Have been back now from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, for five days now and it has just about sunk in to what a degree that was a « significant emotional event » and thus life changing.

What a trip!  Just back from an amazing two weeks in « The Land Beneath the Wind », Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia at the Course Director Training Course.  And now very pleased to say that Diamond Diving has it’s very own Course Director, Alex.  An awesome experience with senior staff from PADI Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific and 38 fellow candidates from all over the world who were all unbelievable.

A big thanks in particular to team-mates Eric from Oklahoma, Arm from Koh Tao, Maciej from Poland, Johnny Chew from Malaysia and Tony from Spain.  Plus translators Jack and Mr Saran.

We now offer Assistant Instructor, Instructor Development Courses, Emergency First Response Instructor and MSDT specialty instructor packages with other 5* and 5*IDC centres in the area.  We will also be offering packages taking you from beginner right through to Instructor.  Look out for our dedicated microsite coming soon with information on all of these programmes.

We still have a few slots for our DiveMaster Internships for this season.  A great opportunity to get your foot on the first rung of the PADI Pro’s ladder with the access to the wonderful lifestyle and amazing opportunities for travel that can offer.  We train you up in return for you being a full time member of our team for two months.  A great way to build a solid foundation and real experience.

Sounds good?  To be considered please send a CV and covering letter to info@www.diamonddiving.net.

Also congratulations to Thibaut and Jessie for their recent certifications.  Good job in not so easy conditions.  Well done guys!

Firstly a belated but very sincere Happy New Year, hope all goes well for you in 2012.  Yes, Noemie and I are back from our travels in the UK & Grenoble …and a successful dive show in Paris.

The boat is in the water and we encourage all of you of course to carry on diving.  We’re still running an offer on Dry Suit specialty for 180 Euros instead of 215 Euros for the manual, three dives (inc confined water orientation) and certification.

For those who have already completed the course why not keep up your skills with some diving, we will hire the suits out a just 10 euros per dive above your normal per dive price.

Dry Suit Specialty

180€ instead of 215€ all included

Every day

Also, we are going to organise a couple of Emergency First Response courses.  This is a great course, good fun, very useful and the reasons to do it are many & compelling, including:

– The ability to intervene and maybe even save a life in the event of a medical emergency

– Developing and practising life skills that all people should have

– It is a prerequisite for the Rescue Diver course, which we highly encourage all of you to aim for as a minimum qualification

The price is 150 Euros which includes the manual and CD, a day and a half of tuition and certification.  This course is obviously very useful for non-divers aswell so if you have any friends that might be interested please let them know.

EFR Course 150€ all included

Dates :

Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 of February

&

Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 of February

Firstly we’d like to wish Happy New Year to you all.  May it be filled with excellent diving, success, health and happiness.  We are taking bookings for 2012 now, the prices are online, but if you would like us to put together a specific quote for something, don’t hesitate to e-mail or call.

Secondly another reminder that we are exhibiting at the Paris International Dive Show, Porte de Versailles, 13th to 16th January, stand D24.

Finally, we are back from a winter break and will be open for diving from 20th January onwards.

We look forwards to seeing you all soon.

GIFT VOUCHERS FOR CHRISTMAS.

If you would like to give the gift of diving to someone this year we can prepare gift vouchers for any amount towards courses, discover scuba diving/try dives or dive packs for 2012. It is also possible to give the gift of eLearning for the Open Water, Advanced, Digital Photography, Rescue, Nitrox and Scuba Review programmes/courses. E-mail or call if you’d like to order one, a nice present and something a little bit different….can be organised very rapidly.

+33(0)615305223

info@www.diamonddiving.net

We’d also like to wish all our clients and potential new clients an excellent Christmas and a very Happy New Year and look forwards to welcoming you all on board in 2012.