Tekstreme Diving Blog

Each year BSAC hold a photographic competition to find the best underwater shots from around the globe. There are many different categories to enable keen photographers of all levels to give it a try. Launched back in March 2009 and with a brand new BSAC Diving (members) category in addition to the regular Open and [...]

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Time is running by and very soon it will be Dive Show time again! Make a date in your diary for March 27th/28th and visit Tekstreme and Emperor Divers stand at the London Dive Show.
Meet the Managers of Tekstreme and pick up valuable advice on technical diving and courses in all of [...]

After a week of intensive training, we are pleased to announce that all BSAC students and instructors passed their courses with flying colors.
From the Open Circuit side of technical diving, under the close supervision and direction of BSAC Technical instructors Ray McKee and Brian Smith the week of training with the students ran very smoothly. [...]

Four Red Sea diving liveaboards were damaged in a fire which raged in a Suez dry dock on 30 January, an Egyptian marine tourism authority has stated.
The country’s Chamber of Diving and Watersports has said that the vessels Typhoon, VIP One, Hyatt and Sweet Dream were all damaged in the fire, which was spread by [...]

Egyptian rescue boats searched with fading hope for a British tourist on Sunday who was lost while scuba diving in the Red Sea, one of the rescuers said.
The three boats focused their search in an area 13 kilometres (eight miles) south of the Red Sea port town of Safaga, where the 45-year-old tourist was last [...]

CDWS announces new regulations requiring use of tracking devices on all dive safari boats operating in remote locations
Following recommendations from the Chamber of Diving and Watersports (CDWS), the Egyptian Minster of Tourism has issued a decree stating that all safari boats operating in remote areas must carry on board an approved diver-tracking system. Remote areas [...]

Emperor Divers and Tekstreme are giving adventurous divers the chance to join the platinum liveaboard, Elite, on its exploratory trip to the Red Sea’s Deep South on 16 – 23 April.
Sailing from Hamata port to destination unknown, we will be exploring some of the reef systems and Habilis further south of St John’s where normal [...]

Tekstreme Technical Instructors are preparing themselves for a week of intensive Technical training provided by Mike Rowley from BSAC. All Tekstreme / Emperor Divers centres will be working with BSAC in providing Technical training up to the highest levels in both Open Circuit scuba and Closed Circuit scuba. This will make Tekstreme unique and provide [...]

Dive boat moorings have been laid on the only artificial reef to have been created off the popular diving resort of Hurghada, in Egypt.
The moorings cover the 51m-long Hebat Allah, which lies on flat sand at a depth of 45m, near Abu Ramada Island.
The moorings, says HEPCA, are intended “firstly to improve safe diving conditions [...]

Is always nice when we manage to find people that have direct links to any new wreck that is found. Read below the story from Peter Bruce detailing his connections to the wreck.
The large ferry ‘Al Qamar El Saudi’, which you found on the bottom of the Red Sea off Hurgada, is a most interesting [...]