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Tenerife Scuba Diving News

This page is dedicated to diving news and announcements here in Las Galletas and pulls information from tenerifescubablog

Bob Marley meets the Beach Boys?

You do some funny old things in the diving business...especially when when you have ties to a film production company. I had a call which went on the lines of "Chris (that's me) Yes Andy" "What you doing tonite? come help with a pop video shoot and bring a sense of humour" "Okey dokey " Said I.

So there we were at 9pm in a 1.2m swimming pool at some body's house somewhere in Adje. The film shoot was for a Reggie band who are in to surfing....yea that right surfing!

The video should be finished when Sion Park opens here in Tenerife which will boast the worlds largest wave machine producing a wave some 10 meters high!

An interesting way to spend a tuesday evening.

Tenerife Scuba become Yorkshire Divers Sponsor

It is with great pleasure that we can announce that as of todays date we have become a Yorkshire Divers Sponsor.

For those of you not aware of it "Yorkshire Divers" is probably the most widely read/used Diving Forum in the UK. It has a host of information for divers of all levels and a community ready to pass on help and advice from the novice to technical diver.

Guardia Civil Boat Runs Aground

The main function of the Guardia Civil boat, Rio Palma, is dealing with illegal immigrants who arrive here in Tenerife by boat and controlling drugs trafficking. This is a fast twin hulled 30m boat which if the captain puts his foot down you can hear the roar of the twin diesels coming from miles away. Many of you who have dived with us will have seen this boat either passing the harbour front or when we have been on dive sites.

Well not any more or at least not for a while to come.....On the evening of 9th Jan it ran aground between the wreck of the Condesito and the wreck of the Meridian. It was only a very short distance from the shore.

So it was low tide, our maximum tidal range is just over two meters. This boat is equipped with state of the art navigation systems, GPS, Sonar, Radar etc etc how it managed to run aground is the the subject of some fairly heated discussions as you can imagine. Originally they were saying that the boat was beyond repair but they have finally managed to refloat it and tow it away.

The Rio Palma has now been towed to Santa Cruz and I am being told that they hope to have it back in service in August, they didn't say which year though! The fate of the crew on the other hand would seem almost certain well it would be if this happened any where else in the world, but then again this is Tenerife.

The PADI 5 Year Itch?

Well it's now official Tenerife Scuba has been around for five years. This certainly makes one of the more established dive centers here in Tenerife, certainly one of the most established under the same management.

Many thanks to all those, customers who are now friends, who have helped and supported us over the years.

Chris, Mark & Sarah

Der Management

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Brainiac Spain Dives with Stingrays Las Galletas

This is the video which was show on Channel Four Spain 3rd November. Some of the opening shots are from Tabiba on the East coast all the boat shots are from Los Chucos here in Las Galletas. Slight hype with the Steve Erwin comments but some great underwater video shots. With Tenerife Scuba acting as hosts for the filming. The presenter for this was only Open Water qualified and coming face to face with a large Atlantic Ray well it might be in spanish but I think you'll get the drift.

Many thanks to Andy Q for posting the Vid on You Tube

Fire in Tenerife pictures from the south of the island

I'm sure by now everyone has heard of the fire that started in the north of Tenerife. Living here in the very south of the island we have been spared the fire itself but even so we were aware what what going on. One of the side effects has been very patchy Internet connectivity, hence the delay in posting this.

The fire itself followed several days of Calima (wind and very fine sand from coming in from Africa) temperatures hit the mid forty's in the street and even 32 deg C here in our normally cool dive centre.

The first thing we were really aware of was a noticeable drop in the air temperature mid afternoon. Looking towards Teide it looked as though there were vast clouds obscuring the mountain and blocking out the sun, hence the reason for the drop in temperature. For a few minutes we and our Spanish neighbours thought they were simply storm clouds, but as the sun turned an eiry shade of red, news started filtering through of a fire in the north of the island. The scale of the fire though was something that no one realised until later in the evening when reports started coming through on local television.

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