Tekstreme and BSAC, the start of a beautiful relationship

Be at the DOC to find out to upcoming plans on how we here at Tekstreme are working alongside BSAC to help you as divers.

ALL Divers are invited to this year’s Diving Officer’s Conference (DOC), to be held at the London Institute of Education on Saturday, 5th December. A packed programme is promised for this year’s conference, with BSAC’s new Diving Officer Jeff Reed at the DOC helm for the first time.

One of the key speakers for DOC 2009 will be Dr Peter Wilmshurst, a world-renowned expert in cardiac research and commercial diving. Dr Wilmshurst will be speaking about his latest research into PFO (patent foramen ovale – an opening in the left atrium in the heart) and decompression illness. Alongside the speaker programme, to be confirmed shortly, there will be the presentation of the annual BSAC awards, including the Heinke Trophy and Branch of the Year.

Book your conference tickets online and you will be automatically entered into our prize draw for a Scubapro latest edition MK 25 / A700 regulator worth £599. Online ticket sales and entry into the prize draw closes midnight on Friday 27th November. In the meantime, put the DOC 2009 date – 05.12.09 – in your diary – it’s a BSAC event not to be missed!

Meet the Emperor and Tekstreme Team

What a crazy couple of days that was Dive Show Birmingham 2009!

Was great to see so many old collegues reunited together, so many old guests coming back to see us, so many freinds and family all coming to support Tekstreme.

The show was manic for the two days solid. Apologies if I did not get to speak to everybody for as long as I wanted, but look forward to seeing you all at the dive show in London 2010.

I think that all vendors were surprised at the numbers of visitors that came to the show despite the highlighted credit crisis. By the amount of visitors leaving the show with handfuls of bags and boxes of shopping I think that generally people are doing ok!!

Many thanks to everybody for their help, organization and support over 2009, we look forward to what 2010 brings for Tekstreme.

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Get connected visually with the World

We here at Tekstreme Divers get many guests, students, colleagues or friends wanting to share their Technical diving experiences with us through their photos or videos. Now we give you that full opportunity. Not only do we get the pleasure of sharing your time with you, but now you can share it with all the other technical divers out there across the globe. By clicking on the Flickr logo, it will take you straight to the Tekstreme Diving Flickr group, where you can view all of the photos that are there already or add you own photos to the collection. It can be recent photos/videos or it can be older memorable photos/videos. It does not matter. Share your dives we us and with the world.

Technical Liveaboard on Elite

Hurry, hurry, hurry…… the 2010 dates for our Technical Safaris have just been released.

Offering specialist technical diving trips to explore deep wrecks and reefs of the Red Sea. Join us on an unforgetable voyage of discovery, relaxation and adventure.

Whether you are an open circuit diver or a rebreather diver, our technical safaris cater to suit everyones needs. Let us do the hard work, so you don’t have to!

We at Tekstreme  pride ourselves on providing the best possible service we can, which is why you will find that all the safaris are on-board Emperor Divers Platinum boat “Elite”.

To see in full the boat specifications check out; www.emperordivers.com/liveaboards_fleet_elite.php

View our full listings of example safari routes through the Tek safaris link on our website, and let the excitement begin.

It is that time of year again, the Birmingham Dive Show 2009.

The Dive Show provides a perfect opportunity to discover what is new within the diving industry, to check out any new specialist equipment on the market, to chat to dive operators, to find out what has changed or changing or just to meet up with old friends.

Come and down and check out what special offers Tekstreme have now available, what new information we have, any recent changes, latest Safari dates or just to meet the Next Generation of Tekstreme.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The 1st of October proved to be a memorable day and even more of a memorable night. Why was it so significant? Well, it marked the day where Cat Parfitt and Bence Szentklaray took over Tekstreme Diving. What began as just an idea to have a few celebratory drinks together turned into a much larger Tekstreme party night!

The “Friends Bar”, a recent addition to the new marina in Hurghada, was decked out Techy style with tanks, equipment and helium balloons inviting everybody in. Even the drinks took on the theme with specialized Tekstreme cocktails and shots.

Cat says, “It was a great pleasure to see our guests, all of our friends and colleagues from many businesses in the local Hurghada area coming to support our new adventure. We are very grateful to everybody for all of your help and support”.

To see for yourself the party night, check out the latest photo additions on the Tekstreme Facebook Group.

Save 30% – equal to 240 Euros

Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures combined course

5-day course
Hurghada only

Special price: just 448 Euros – save 240 Euros

Course must be taken by December 31, 2009
Includes: all tanks, equipment & gas
Extras: certification & manuals

More course information here

At last, after many months of research, mapping and some very long dives by the Marsa Alam Emperor technical dive team we have finally finished mapping stage one of the caverns in the area to enable us now to offer the PADI Cavern Specialty. For many years guides have said there were some caverns in the area and had in fact guided a few very experienced divers into them on occasion. After some searching again by one of our guides Mo, he finally found them again and started to draw a map of the entrance area. He mapped an area we have named Mo’s Cavern (The Simpsons Mo’s Tavern…get it?) in honor of their founder! After a technical dive team had finished putting the final pieces to this puzzle they pushed on and have so far mapped and permanently lined over 130 meters of cavern with still some to do!

After diving them himself Aaron Bruce of Emperors technical wing Tekstreme said “ These caverns are beautiful and are a unique feature for the Ghalib area but divers need to be very well trained in the techniques to enter these caverns and enjoy part of the Red Sea only seen by a hand full of divers” As luck would have it Emperor divers has its own PADI Cavern Instructor and Cavern trained guides so now you can learn new diving skills and then enjoy the caverns with your guide the next time you are at Marsa Alam.

Course sizes are limited to just 2 students and take either 2  or 3 days so early booking is essential as this is already proving to be very popular. Contact reservations for more information and come and join us under the Red Sea and inside of Egypt!

Tekstreme will be offering suitably qualified divers the opportunity to enroll in the TDI Entry Level Trimix course for an amazing price of only 600 Euro. This price includes gas, boat fees , tuition and equipment but does not include manual or certification fees.  This offer is valid only from the 1st June to the 31st August and can be done in any of our three Tekstreme locations. All courses must be completed within this time frame, so book now to avoid disappointment and get yourself an amazing deal.

During the last few month Tekstreme has been extremely busy teaching courses both land based and on Safari, however we have still made time to search for new and unexplored dive site.

At Port Ghalib the tekstreme team have found a large cavern system not more than a few hundred meteres away from the dive centre. It has been fully lined out and the best thing about it is the depth. At less than 10m max depth this is an ideal place for cavern courses. Tekstreme and Emperor divers will soon be able to offer you courses in the very near future.

Look out for an article and pictures in the next few days.

We were also given the chance to play with the Starfish side scan sonar to help locate the numerous wrecks, planes and helicopters that are scattered about the area. So far we are very impressed with this small side scan sonar and have already come up with a few interesting finds.

Our on going wreck hunting trips are continuing to shed some light on what wrecks are where and what is hearsay. So far we definately know where certain wrecks DO NOT exist, but we have found out where others do! More will follow as we have a couple of  wreck hunting trips over the next few weeks where all will be revealed.