Lanzarote Diving News
24Dec 11
Christmas GreetingS
From sunny Lanzarote!
Steve, Wendy, Rosie and all the team at Safari Diving would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and very best wishes for 2012!We have enjoyed this year with lots of you returning to dive with us and new divers joining us too.
We opened our Diver's bar - The Chill Inn centro Olivin, Puerto del Carmen - and we are enjoying spending evenings with our divers there.
Steve and Wendy would also like to thank the dive team at Safari. We enjoy working with you all and thank you all for you continued support. Safari wouldn't be the same without you!
We wish Dean and Jen all the best when they return to the UK in January and look forward to seeing them when they return here on their holidays.
Happy Holidays everyone!! xxx
24Dec 11
NEC DIVE SHOW WINNER
Accommodation and free diving for two
Congratulations to Pete McKeone who won our NEC dive show competition. He will taking his holiday at the Costa Volcan Spa with a friend and we look forward to welcoming him to Safari Diving. Well done Pete!Thank you to everybody who took the time to email us with your answers to the questions.
Our next dive show will be in Holland and a free holiday will be up for grabs there too.
25Sep 11
NEC DIVE SHOW 22-23rd october
Stand 1040 free gifts!!!
We are pleased to announce that this year we will have our own stand (number 1040)at the Birmingham NEC dive show to be held on the 22-23rd October. We hope to see a lot of our divers there but also anyone who is considering coming to Lanzarote either alone, or with friends,family or your dive groups/universities- we can cater for everyone here!!
We have specially discounted rates for bookings at the show, information on how to win a week's free diving and accommodation!
Wear your Safari Diving t.shirt at the dive show and we will give you a nice FREE gift! Honey rum and Caramelo Vodka also available!!
Be sure to come and see us!!
Lastly the new and limited edition Safari Diving T shirt is now being sold exclusively in the Chill Inn bar, be sure to get yours now!
15Sep 11
Diver down !!
Gert out of action!
Our dear friend Gert has had to cancel his holiday due in September back to our sunny island!Without knowing Gert has been walking with broken bones in his leg! He now has to wait 9 weeks until he sees his surgeon again.At the moment Gert is feeling sad so if you know him, drop him a line to cheer him up. Hopefully he will be back on the island in November, when he and Yvonne can enjoy their diving again and a few drinks in our bar - The Chill Inn!
Gert is pictured here at home with his whiskey collection!
Best Wishes for a Speedy recovery from all your friends at Safari Diving! xxx
21Aug 11
Ingrid's Return
Our missing team member!!
Steve and Wendy are pleased to announce that Ingrid has now returned to the team.She had to take extended leave after her baby daughter Nalu was born but is now able to return to the team.
We are sure you will all look forward to seeing her once again at Safari Diving!
18Aug 11
Enquiries to safari diving
Correct email addresses
We have recently received a number of enquiries from our clients whom have incorrectly entered their email addresses, therefore our reply is not reaching them.If you have not received a reply from us, can you try again please and make sure you have detailed your email address correctly.
Many thanks
Wendy
08Aug 11
PARTY NIGHT !!
Chill Inn Bar Opening Night
We are pleased to announce that we will opening our bar (which is in partnership with Dean and Jen) early this coming week - hopefully Tuesday if all goes well, but this is Spain! :-). The 'Official' Opening night will be on Saturday 13th August and we will be serving our FREE buffet from 8.30pm onwards.
We hope that lots of you can come along and support our new venture.
For those of you who cannot make it this time, we are having a 2nd Official opening for our divers, which will be sometime in November - we will let you know when as soon as possible.
Hope to see you all in our new bar soon! The Chill Inn, Centro Olivin - near the Biosphera shopping centre.
31Jul 11
Divers bar opening
A meeting place
In partnership with Dean and Jenny, we will shortly be opening a bar in the Old town of Puerto del Carmen for our divers and friends.It will be a nice meeting place to chat about the day's diving, share photo and video experiences and generally have some fun.We will also be serving FREE tapas during the course of each evening.
All clients of Safari Diving will receive a leaflet entitling them to a discount in the bar.We hope to see you there and that you will help support us to make this bar a success.
We expect to open in the next two weeks but will have an offical DIVERS opening night sometime in November.
Hope to see you all there!
31Jul 11
Safari Diving goes GREEN !!
Low Emissions
So now the new boat engine has safely arrived on Lanzarote from the UK. This is for our boat the Astican II. It has low emissions as has our air conditioned Safari Diving vehicles. There is nothing wrong with the old engine but now the boat will operate more effectively and more safely for the enviroment.
We will soon have to take the Astican out of the water to fit the new engine and are hoping to turn this around in just a few days.
Look out on our web for photos and videos recording this moment.
08Jul 11
Sperm Whales spotted !
Family of Sperm Whales visit Lanzarote!
A Group of Sperm Whales were recently spotted just off the coast of Lanzarote. A boat of scientists that have been tracking the whales had several days of sightings and then were rewarded with a display of spins, jumps and noises from the whales when they approached the boat.The scientists confirmed that this was the same family of whales that had visited the island in the same spot two years ago!
Did you have sightings of whales, let us know in our guestbook
01Jul 11
Spiny Dogfish Shark in Lanzarote
Squalus acanthias
After today's boat dive Joaquin found a dead Dogfish shark. Floating in the harbour of Puerto del Carmen. It always breaks my heart when I see such a amazing animal dead on land. How it did get there is unknown. The dogfish shark is like all the sharks an endangered specie.They are called dogfish because they operate in big shoals (like dog packs). The spiny comes from the two poisonous spines just in front of their dorsal fins.
Would be nice to see a shark like this on our dives.
10Jun 11
Congratulations!!
A new divemaster!
Danny Ski has recently succesfully completed his PADI Divemaster qualification with us. Congratulations and well done from all the team!!Formally a local over here in Lanzarote, Danny left the island, only to return 3 weeks ago to do his Divemaster course with us.
We will miss you when you leave, to start your employment in Bulgaria and wish you good luck with that.
Hopefully we will see again soon.
25Apr 11
New group rates
And Holiday Deals
Visit our special offers section to view our new and updated holiday deals - great value!Also information regarding the New discounted Group diving rates- including extra persons diving FREE !!
Lastly you will also find details of April and May's Special offers!!
17Apr 11
Ryanair new base
Even more flights to Lanzarote
Ryanair now has a new base in Lanzarote! The new base will have 150 flights weekly in and out of Lanzarote from Barcelona,Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth,Bristol, Brussels, Cork,Dublin, Dusseldorf, East Midlands,Edinburgh, Eindhoven Frankfurt Hahn,Glasgow,Knock,Karlsruhe Bdn,Liverpool, Leeds Bradford, London Luton, London Stansted, Madrid, Milan, Santander, Santiago, Sevilla, Saehannon,Valencia, Valladolid, Venice,Treviso and Zaragosa. It is now even easier to fly to Lanzarote - what are you waiting for? Our warm weather and water conditions are waiting for you!!
14Apr 11
Safari Diving Lanzarote on Twitter
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21Mar 11
Competition winners!!!
Irish and Madrid Dive shows
We would like to Congratulate both:David Walters who has won the IRISH dive show competition
And
Fabiola Rincon who has won the Madrid dive show competition!!
Both have won a week's FREE diving and accommodation for two persons.
Please contact us to make your reservation for a week in May 2011.
21Mar 11
Lanzarote Carnival 2011
Safari friends Bina and Mark
Lots of people turned up for the Carnival day in Puerto del Carmen Lanzarote. Again it was a huge success! Here are dear friends of Safari Diving Bina and Mark enjoying themselves on the day!18Feb 11
Interactive divemaps
Plan your dives from behind your pc
People who dive with us have seen the maps of Tony Gilbert been used on almost all our dive briefs. Now these maps are available on our website and we are proud to tell that we are the first dive centre with interactive maps. Now you can plan your dives even before you come to visit us in Lanzarote.Have fun!
04Feb 11
Irish Travel award 2011
Lanzarote beat them all
Lanzarote has just been awarded the Irish Travel award 2011 for the 9th consecutive year! Competing against countries including the Algarve, Brazil, Majorca and others, Lanzarote was voted the best sun and sea destination for Irish Travellers. So if you wish to enquire about your next diving holiday contact us here. We are waiting to hear from you!03Feb 11
Dead shark
On beach of Costa Teguise 31/01/2011
This is not a pretty sight, a dead shark on the beach of Costa Teguise. This shark is probably been attacked by another shark somewhere on the middle of the ocean and because of the wind and currents it has been washed up on the beach.It is very very rare that you will encounter a shark like that while you are diving, swimming or snorkelling.
19Dec 10
Ryanair Flights
More cheap flights to Lanzarote!!
Ryanair have announced that in February 2011 they will introduce 35 new routes to the Canary Islands, with more flights being scheduled to Lanzarote.This is great news for our divers and we hope this means you can all get here with cheaper flights!
New airports are being added to their schedules so you may find an airport near to you will now be used by Ryanair for the Canaries.
22Oct 10
What a beautiful pair!!
Ingrid with her beautiful baby daughter
Well here is our first photograph of Ingrid with her gorgeous daughter Nalu.Ingrid is being kept busy on her maternity leave looking after Nalu and her son Kai , but the staff and guests look forward to when Ingrid will return - she is missed by all.
We now have to keep Gus and Ingrid busy so they don't have time to make more babies - we don't want to lose her again to maternity leave! ha ha.
Everyone sends their best wishes and congratulations to Ingrid, Gus and baby Kai on the birth of the baby Nalu.
The Safari Team xxxxx
11Sep 10
Nalu
Ingrids daughter has been born
At the 9th september 2010 Ingrid gave birth to a daughter. Both are making well and today Ingrid will be home. The name of her daughter is Nalu. We come back here with more news and ofcourse some photos.Big kisses from all the Safari Staff
22Jul 10
Latest video
Carlos Suarez underwater moments
See for yourself how amazing the underwater life is in Lanzarote. The diving here never gets bored.
By the way keep an eye on this website pretty soon we will have a new attraction and it has all to do with ....
22Jul 10
Rosie update
Playing again
It is nice to tell you all that Rosie has now fully recovered. The vet now thinks that she had a severe muscle strain.They will keep an eye on her and if she experiences the same problem again her blood tests go straight to the laboratory.It is so nice to have our doggy back to normal.
11Jul 10
Safari Dog
Health scare with Rosie
At the beginning of the week we had a real scare with Rosie. We arrived home to find our little one, collapsed on the sofa. She would not move and looked really helpless. We tried to help her stand but she really didnt want to.We took her to the emergency vets at 3am who gave her anti-imflammatory drugs and antibiotics and he took a blood test. Next day we visited our local vets who told us she has a muscular problem.
We are now waiting results from a specialist. We hope this is not permanent and that she will be fine.
At the moment she has recovered well and is walking and playing. Although for most of the week she has been very subdued.
Thank you to everyone who is asking after.
08Jul 10
Vincent returns to Safari
Vince and family on holiday
Vince and Nikki and their children, Maxwell and Benjamin returned to our sunny island recently. It was nice to see them after them having left the island to start a new life back in Holland (Vince's homeland).We are happy to report they are living a nice life over in Holland and things are working out well for them.Vince was pleased to get back into the water and do some diving, after not having done any since he left Safari Diving. He looks forward to returning again (maybe in September) to have some nice diving with us.
He did however, make a complaint about the wetsuit sizes being too small! Yes Vince, we did notice you had put on a few kilos since you stopped working at Safari ! ha ha. Nothing wrong with the wetsuits aye!
We all forward to when we see the Timp family again!!
Best wishes from the Safari Team !
08Jul 10
Congratulations Nico !!
The new website goes live!..
Congratulations to Nico on getting the New Safari Diving website live!Nico has put in lots of work to modify our website. Improving the background of the website which will enable us to maintain the site much more easily.We now have news section and a much better guest book, where you can load your own photo (maybe either of yourself,your dive or a snap from your holiday.
We will have monthly special offers also and we are just working on the August special offers now.
Nico's contribution has been invaluable and Wendy and Steve wish to thank Nico for all his hard work.
A job well done!
08Jul 10
WORTHING BSAC CLUB VISIT
It was nice to welcome back Mick and his group
Mick and his BSAC group returned to Safari and once again enjoyed the diving and the evening life here in Puerto Del Carmen. They even gave us recommendations of new restaurants they experienced this time and we will certainly give them a go.They are a great group of people and are welcome anytime at Safari. We hope that they will return again soon, for pleasure diving or to bring their students here to train - maybe in the winter when its cold in the UK !
Greetings from all the staff at Safari. x
10Jul 10
Farewell To Johan
We wish Joi the very best
Joi has decided to return to his homeland in the Netherlands after many many years at Safari Diving. His vast knowledge of the dive sites here ensured that those diving with him had the best dive possible. He was very popular both with the rest of the Safari team but also all our visiting divers.We hope that one day in the future Joi will return to the island and to the Safari Diving team. We all wish him the very best for his future. Any messages for Joi please leave on the guest book or contact Wendy who will forward them onto him.
30Jun 10
Finally the new website
We wish you a lot of fun browsing
We have worked hard to try to get our new website just the way we want it. We now have more photo´s, with even a possibillity for you to upload your own photo`s in our guestbook. We have more actual weather reports also. Recommend us with your Facebook or Hyves account,you can even subscribe to our YouTube page. There is so much, just browse through the pages and let us know what you think - your views mean a lot to us!The web is still under some construction and we will annouce when it is fully completed.
Wendy and Steve would like to thank Nico, without whom none of this would have been possible.
