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November 1, 2011 by Eric Keibler

100 Scuba Dives…Dive Mom Needs Help!

Dive Mom Ready to Go
Dive Mom Ready to Go!

“For the first time I can remember, I don’t have my 100 dives by November 1; I need your help to get there before December 1!”
 Ann Keibler will be venturing up to the DUI Dog Rally and Demo Days in Terrell Texas on November 19-20 and she would like for you to join her. So that you both have something to do while swimming around the lake, she will be doing dry suit open water dives and dry suit demos. To give you some incentive to show up, she has come up with the following specials:

  • Take a Dry Suit course, reg $225, for only $125 and she will pay for your DUI entry ticket for Saturday and Sunday. By doing your open water here, you also save the dry suit rental charge ($100 for the weekend).
  • Take your Nitrox course, reg $225, for only $125 and she will pay for your DUI entry ticket for the day and include the Nitrox for your dives!

Both courses include the educational materials and the classroom portion is a home study program. You should turn in your homework and take the test before you leave. She will be staying late Wednesday November 9, so you can get the test over with early. You can take the test at the lake, but who wants to skip the fun and take a test so doing it early is really better.
Of course if you are already certified as a dry suit diver, you can still come up and go diving. Remember, she needs a lot of dives and she doesn’t think any one person will want to do that many in a day. As such, she needs multiple buddies and lots of moral support.
DUI’s Dog Rally and Demo Days is a really cool event where you can try almost every suit DUI makes, almost every style of undergarment, get lunch and a hat all for $10.00 (when purchased from Oceanic Ventures, in advance). And, if you are already a DOG (DUI Owners Group) and you bring a friend to the event, you will get a special gift.

Please send Dive Mom and email and tell her you will help her reach her goal.

She would like to know who is going to attend by Friday.

Filed Under: Dry Suit Diving, Middle East, Scuba Dive Training, Scuba Diving Activities, Skills, Social Activities, Travel Tagged With: demo, diving skills, drysuit, DUI, Scuba Dive Training

September 16, 2011 by Eric Keibler

David's Annual BarBQ at the Lake

Chef David In-Between Dives
Chef David In-Between Dives

Last year David celebrated is 100th dive in a year with a BarBQ at the lake.  Well as things have a way of doing around here, David decided to make it an annual event!  So, on Sunday 25 September from 10:00 to 4:00 David and some friends will be diving and cooking BarBQ at Mammouth Lake.  The cost of the event is only $10.00 but here is what you will receive:

    • A cylinder of air (must be picked up from Oceanic Ventures)
    • Some of David’s famouns grilled treats
    • Really cold water (bring your own cup or bottle – we are trying to help reduce the bottle trash in the world)
    • Some really fun diving
    • Door prizes!

You will still need to pay the admission at the lake but just think of the door prizes you could win.  And yes you can bring other beverages of your own, just remember that your last dive is the one before you drank that adult beverage.

Last year we had a great turnout so we would like to make this year’s barBQ even bigger.  Come join David and your fellow diver’s for a fun day at the lake!

If you have any questions, please contact David or Ashton.

 

Please RSVP if you will be attending.

 

Filed Under: Local Diving, Scuba Diving Activities, Social Activities, Travel Tagged With: BarBQ, party

August 12, 2011 by Eric Keibler

Too Busy Diving

Open Water Sidemount Divers
Open Water Sidmount Divers

 I am not sure where the summer has gone.  We have been busy teaching new students to dive, upgrading the skills of our previous students and traveling.  It seems there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done. 

 We want to congratulate our new divers for completing their course and entering the realm ofNeptune.  Our new divers are featured in the video below as well as some of our other divers who completed classes such as Night and Limited Visibility Diving, Deep Diving, Search and Relocation, Navigation, Advanced Buoyancy Control, Technical Deep Diving, Advanced Recreational Trimix, Open Water Side-Mount, and the Principles of Technical Diving.

 Other Places We’ve Been

 Over the past few months you might have seen our divers in Grand Cayman for Inner Space (Oceanic Ventures is a continuing sponsor), Cozumel, Isla Mujares, the British Virgin Islands, St Croix, Utila, Little Cayman, the Dry Tortugas, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador as well as our local favorites like 288 Lake, the Blue Lagoon, and Mammoth Lake.  It has been an action packed season so far and we are not finished yet!  

It is Not Too Late

It is not too late to hop into the water and become one withNeptuneunce again.  We have some fun adventures coming up and continuing education course are filling up the calendar so there is no excuse to stay dry! 

So here is our photo thank you and remembrances of our season so far.  Please tell me what you think….

Filed Under: Digital, Photography, Scuba Diving Activities, Social Activities, Underwater

March 30, 2011 by Eric Keibler

Scuba Divers, Burgers and Dogs

Chef David In-Between Dives
Chef David In-Between Dives
Once again, David outdid himself on the grill serving up grilled hamburgers and hotdogs to about 20 divers this past weekend!  Saturday was the DiverXY BarBQ at the Lake.  The event was open to the DiverXY group as well as other divers who wanted to get wet and enjoy a beautiful day.  We had a mixed group of divers from new divers, to experienced divers, to technical divers and even some rebreather divers.  It was a fun day and everyone had a great time diving and socializing with other scuba divers and even a few non-divers (we can fix that you know…). 
If you missed the day, keep looking, David has promised to bring the grill again and have another BarBQ at the Lake soon!
Vernon and Francisco

Filed Under: Rebreathers, Scuba Diving Activities, Social Activities, X-Divers Tagged With: 288 Lake, BarBQ, DiverXY

February 15, 2011 by Eric Keibler

Changes at Oceanic Ventures

ashton last day
Ashton and Joyce – Ashton is Working Until the Last Minute


The world keeps changing and Oceanic Ventures is not immune.  After graduating from the University of Houston, Ashton, our Retail Manager, has decided to change things up a bit and move to Boston.  He is a part of our family and a part of the Oceanic Ventures family.  He is moving to Boston to be closer to Joyce, who moved up to Boston a year ago.


Ashton will still be involved with the Company as a consultant and would like to lead a few of the really cold water trips (there are not many of our staff who love ice diving); he has also agreed to help us with some other projects.


Before leaving, Ashton tried to perform a Vulcan Mind Meld with Alex and transfer much of his knowledge and experience to him.  Alex is a long-time client who has come on-board to take over some of Ashton’s duties and to keep Ann and me on-track.  Please wish him well in that task!
You will also find some other new staff working part-time in the store along with some other old friends.  Please come by and meet Alex and check on Dive Mom.  You can reach Alex by email or phone just as you can reach Ann or me via our personal email accounts and through the store’s main account at divesafe@oceanicventures.net.

Things are changing but one thing remains the same, our commitment to being your door to adventure!TM  We have a lot of exciting things happening this year including some cool travel opportunities, Club Aquarius meetings, and our all new DiverXY group.  You really have no excuse not to make scuba diving a lifetime pastime.

Filed Under: Club Aquarius, Social Activities, Staff, X-Divers Tagged With: Ashton, staff

December 9, 2010 by Eric Keibler

Scuba Diver's Social and Birthday Party!

Oceanic Ventures is having a party! If you did not know it, Oceanic Ventures turned 20 in December and we wanted to have a party to celebrate! Join us on 19 January 2011 at 6:30pm for a very fun party and pig roast.  Tickets are required and must be purchased in advance.  We would love to see all of our old friends and our new friends as well.  Bring your favorite diving photographs from your Oceanic Ventures trip.  Details are on the party page or contact Ashton for more details.
Bring a non-diving friend and show them how much fun we can be out of the water.
I hope you will join the Oceanic Ventures Staff at the party!

Filed Under: Club Aquarius, Social Activities, X-Divers Tagged With: birthday, drinks, food, party, social

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