Author: Steve Bougourd

Just been down to see Great White and she is looking fabulous, great job Offshore Power CI. With new 4 stroke Mercury 150, New VHF system,New stainless steel transom on stern for mounting spot light for Night diving and radar detector,new rocker bilge pump and polish up she is virtually a new boat

We have the following DSD sessions to be held in the comfort of the heated pool at Les Beaucamps school. Please meet in the entrance of the new sport facility.

When are the sessions ?

Session 1 Saturday 12th March  12:00 -13:00

Session 2 Saturday 19th March 12:00-13:00

How do I sign up ?

On our web site www.donkey-divers.com just click on Learn-DSD- then choose an option. We have two options

Option 1 pool only £30

Option 2 Pool+Sea dive £50

What do I need ?

You might want to bring a drink you will need a towel and bathing costume a rash vest is great if you have one if you have not and would like to purchase one we have them on sale at our shop. Please check out the PADI Medical form available on our web site, to avoid disappointment please NOTE if you can answer YES to any of the questions you will need to download the form and pop to your doctor with it to get cleared to dive, we CAN NOT take you in the water otherwise.

What happens after the DSD experience ?

Well we really hope you decide to sign up for the PADI Open water Diver course and if you do within seven days of your DSD we will deduct the cost of the DSD from the course fee, so you get the DSD absolutely FREE.

As the dive season fast approaches we must remind you that all club members need to have dive insurance,It is not expensive and makes sense. We all hope we never need to use insurance cover of any kind but as we all know if we did need to claim it can save us a lot of money on what could be a very expensive issue. We recommend DAN ( Divers Alert Network ) as it is a non profit making organisation that pumps funds back into dive medical research, for example flying after diving times where reduced to 18hrs  after multiple dives on research done by DAN. We are also DAN Partners so if you quote our PARTNER NUMBER 170818 you will be helping Donkey Divers to purchase safety equipment like O2 kits etc. Once you are have purchased your insurance ( DAN Sport Silver ) http://www.daneurope.org/web/guest/sport-member    <a  you will receive a card to keep on your person so you can show cover when needed. You can also find the link on the Donkey Divers Club page, click on files then DAN insurance. If you would like to join our club then search fb group DONKEY DIVERS CLUB and send a joining request, We post all of our events on this page and any DD news.

We look forward to diving with you in 2016

SB

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A full range of colors (Pink, White,Yellow, Black and the amazing Camo ) and sizes ( L,XL,XXL ) available at your local dive shop/center Donkey Divers Ltd. Come in and try them on you are very welcome, then you will be sure of the fit unlike an internet purchase. So save yourself the hassle of sending unwanted goods back and buy local we WILL look after you:-) we promise.

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Excellent weekend at Les Beaucamps school pool, all divers completing their CW ( confined water training ) over one weekend. This is much more realistic than taking weeks to get these sessions done and we find suits  today’s customer as everyone leads very active and busy life styles. Visit our web site now to enrol with the best, Donkey Divers Ltd.

SB

Hi all,

Well winter is well and truly with us now and even though it is very mild it has also been very windy, never mind spring/summer 16 is not to far away and we are hoping to have a great season of diving events.

Staff update

We are very pleased to welcome OWSI Dwayne Mahrer to our staff, he will be teaching along side myself and OWSI Marc Jenkins.

We also have DM Adam Kennedy who I am sure would like to get involved with DM led programs.

GREAT WHITE.

Very excited to let you know that Great White ( our boat ) is going to get a brand spanking new motor. We have decided to invest in a 4 stroke Mercury 150 HP, this will be better all round for us as we have plans to go a bit further than the east and south coast this year, look out for details on the club page. Great White will be coming out of the water very soon as the motor is now on order.

Winter Specialitys/Dry courses

Equipment Specialists.

We will be holding the PADI Equipment specialty at some point it will be a fun packed evening at DD HQ. Divers will receive the Equipment touch offline to study the theory section followed by a practical  session as I say at the shop. Again look out for cost and details coming soon.

Enriched air diver.

We will also hold a EANx Nitrox special, this is a great course. Diving with EANx extends your no stop time and is especially useful for those dive holidays.

O2 provider

As soon as we receive our new DAN O2 kit we will be launching  this brilliant specialty teaching you how to deliver oxygen in a dive emergency. Especially useful for those PADI Rescue divers.

We have lots of other ideas for 2016 that we are working on, Don’t forget you can still join us on the IOM trip in August if you are interested see events on our club page fb group Donkey Divers Club or email me steve@donkey-divers.com

KR

SB

Hi there,

We at Donkey Divers have a diving trip scheduled in August in the Isle of Man. This will be our second trip there after a hugely successful trip in 2013.  The Isle of Man is a fabulous place to dive. We will be diving with Discover Diving Michelle Haywood and Steve Cowley a very professional team. We last did a DD trip there in 2013 and it was fantastic with fabulous Drift dives especially in the Calf of Man, great wrecks like the SS Liverpool at 40m and last but certainly not least the amazing interaction with the wonderful seal population. It would be fantastic if we could fill the charter so 12 divers ( I think we already have 5 ) Not sure of full price yet as need to package the flights and accommodation but ball part figure £800 pp very approximately and well worth it. We will need a £100 deposit pp to secure your place on Endeavour and a fantastic boat she is too. We would depart Guernsey on 29-08-16 and return 05-09-16 . If you are interested in joining us we would love to have you along please email me  at steve@donkey-divers.com for more details.

SB

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