Houston's Premier Scuba and Dive Shop Oceanic Ventures Inc.

(713) 523-3483 (dive)
5808 Newcastle Drive
Houston, TX 77401

Presentations

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SeaLife at Oceanic Ventures

“Freeze Frame…strike a pose…” It was photo night at #OceanicVentures with the crew from #SeaLife Cameras and Lighting dropping in for a backyard BarBQ to meet divers, discuss underwater photography and to help create better underwater images. Oh hand were Karl Schuster and Eric Peterson as well as two bags of photo equipment!

Karl and Eric ran around answering questions and showing how adding a light or a lens might improve your photo experiences. Meanwhile, Eric and the staff made sure everyone was fed with grilled chicken tacos and grilled vegetables along with the usual adult and night diving beverages.

Thanks Karl and Eric for a fun evening and helping everyone get ready for the #OceanicVenturesPhotographyContest!. Now it is time for more #OVIDiving to capture those moments….

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Shackleton’s Ship Endurance Found after 107 Years!

According to the Smithsonian Magazine…

During Ernest Shackleton’s 1915 Antarctic expedition, his ship Endurance was crushed by ice. After 106 years, scientists announced last week that the vessel had finally been found.

A team of undersea explorers located the wreck roughly 10,000 feet deep at the bottom of the icy Weddell Sea, just east of the Antarctic Peninsula. As soon as the ships’ rediscovery was announced, scientists jumped at the opportunity to see what life forms have made their home on Endurance.

“The ship is cool, but look at those things living on it,” says Huw Griffiths, a marine biogeographer at the British Antarctic Survey, who was not part of the discovery expedition, to Vox’s Benji Jones.

Undersea cameras revealed the ship’s diverse collection of sea life, including sea stars, sponges, anemones, and sea squirts. Scientists also spotted a deep-sea squat lobster, which has never before been recorded in the area, per Jonathan Amos for BBC.

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Facebook Live – The Sidemount Revolution

This week is all about sidemount diving! We will be joined by Hollis Brand Manager, Nick Hollis and cave diver Edd Sorenson to discuss the history of sidemount diving, its rise to fame, and where it stands today. We’ll dive into different sidemount configurations, what is used in different regions around the world, and Nick and Edd’s favorite setups. Don’t forget to bring your questions!

You can find the link on the Hollis Facebook page on Monday. We will also update this post with the link when they update it.

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Diving the Philippines – A Teaser

philippinesThe Philippines is a country with over 186,000 square miles and over 7600 islands.  There are over fifteen primary areas for diving, stretching from La Union in the north to Davao in the south.  All but Apo Reef and Tabathaha are just off island communities; these reefs must be reached by boat.
In her presentation at Club Aquarius on 22 March 2018, Ann Keibler will be   talking about diving in the Philippines and the differences between the various regions of the Country and where she thinks the most diverse diving areas are located.
Come find our more by attending the meeting at 7:00 PM at the Black Labrador Pub.

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Dive Mom Is a Guest on Great Day Houston

Dive Mom, Ann Keibler, was Debra Duncan’s guest on Great Day Houston on Monday talking about scuba diving and scuba dive training. She was joined in the audience by some of Oceanic Venture’s Junior Scuba Divers including Yasmine, Andrew and Ethan as well as their diving mother Ester.

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Ann met Debra Duncan at another event, the St Luke’s Foundation’s Friends of Nursing luncheon, sponsored by Neiman Marcus. Oceanic Ventures and the Cayman Island Department of Tourism were sponsors of the raffle at the event which raised money for the nursing program at CHI St Lukes’s hospital. Debra was the Master-of-Ceremonies and introduced the really cool prize. Ann and Tina Hogson from the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, were on hand to help her understand the prize and to answer any questions about Grand Cayman both from the MC as well as the guests.

If you missed Ann’s appearance, you can replay it here…

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Twenty-Five Years of Photographs

Twenty-Five Years of People and Adventures – Scuba Diving with Oceanic Ventures

 
On November 12, 2015 we debuted a video collection of a sampling of twenty-five years of scuba diving with Oceanic Ventures.  It was fun putting together the video and it brought back a lot of memories and reminded us of a lot of people who have been diving with us for a lot of years.  I hope you will enjoy it.  Here is the video: