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

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

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Santa Is Coming to the West University Pool For Underwater Photographs

Photo with Santa 2013 wu smallThe Christmas holidays still a little ways off but if you ever wanted a personalized Christmas or Holiday card, you should gather up the children and head over to the West University Recreation Center Pool on  2 November 2013 from 10:00 to 1:00 to have your photograph made with Santa underwater.  This is our seventh year to take photos at the pool and it is a lot of fun!  You can come with your scuba equipment or just your swimsuit.  The cost is $10.00 in advance or $35.00 the day of the event.  to find out more, please contact us at divesafe at oceanicventures.net or via phone.

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Eric with Santa
Santa in 2007
Santa and the Elves in 2008
Santa and the Elves in 2008
Photograph of santa and elph
Santa in 2010 with Elf Tamara
Santa & the Mittendorfs
Santa with John, Sean and Paige Mittendorf, along with a large Elf in 2011
Santa with Elf Zaide in 2012
Santa with Elf Zaide in 2012

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Dry Suit Scuba Diving and DUI DOG Rally and Demo Days in Texas

Diving Drysuits is fun
Diving Dry Suits Is Fun and They Extend Your Diving Season!
If you did not already know, we dive all winter! Alex, David, Joel. Madison and Rich all dive year round locally. In fact we have diving almost every weekend already scheduled and you do not want to miss a single weekend!
 But despite our living in the South, the lakes tend to cool down a bit. Dry suits are the way to dive year round and laugh at the cold. And, to make it even more special, DUI’s DOG Rally and Demo Days is coming up November 10-1, 2012 at Clear Springs Scuba Park. This is your opportunity to get certified to dive a dry suit, try out the complete line of products from DUI and get fed lunch all for one price! And, if you want to, you can even camp with the rest of our divers!
 Sign-Up today and get ready for this winters diving marathon!

 Dive Mom, I hate being cold and I want to dive! (please sign me up or send me some more information)

 Tell Me More about the DUI DOG Ralley and Demo Event

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From the Highlands to the Islands – A Tasting Event

Scotch GlassRecently, David Morris and I were sipping on a special glass of uisge beatha, which was a recreation of the spirits carried by Shakelton on his Antarctic expedition when we both had an idea.  Wouldn’t it be fun to do a Scotch whisky tasting?  We did a bourbon tasting last year so it seemed only natural to shift our attention to Scotland.  So, David being the resourceful person that he is came up with a plan and voila we had an event.

With a little more thinking, refinement and an ambassador or two,  we have assembled a really fine event that will be a real treat for our Club Aquarius members and our guests.  On February 23, we will be hosting Andrew Hyman, from Whyte and MacKay, who will be leading us on a tour of Scotland through our palettes.  He has promised to bring us a selection of Whisky from The Dalmore Distillery and the Jura Distillery.  To make this event even more special, we will be in the Whisky Bar of the Royal Oak Bar and Grille which is located at 3100 Westheimer.  As Ann would say, this bar is decorated in old world stuffy so it is an appropriate location for our event.

If you are in the area or plan on being here, please join us for this special event.  In order to bring enough whisky and hors d’oeuvres, we need to know you are coming.  Please email us and let us know you will be joining us on 23 February 2012 at 7:00.

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Club Aquarius Meeting Thursday 26 January 2012

Drew TrentClub Aquarius Guest Speaker, Andrew Trent,

Too Deep to See, the Development of Deep Water Technology

 Join us as we welcome Andrew Trent, Vice President of Oceaneering International, Inc., Deep Water Engineering Services unit, for a discussion of deep water operations around the world. Oceaneering is a Houston based global prneuder of deepwater diving, ROV, and engineering services with offices around the world. Their clients are the whose who of offshore oil drilling and production companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon and British Petroleum.
A native of Canada, Andrew began diving in the early 1970’s, prowling the wrecks around southern Ontario. His early adventures thrust him into a career in the offshore diving business, where he worked extensively with saturation and one-atmospheric diving systems. When he was not puttering on his sailboat, he could be found working in the oil patches of the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico or the US and Canadian Arctic.
His feet are firmly planted on the ground now, and he continues to wreck and cave dive from his Houston home. Always interested in cutting edge diving technology, he uses his rebreather most days, and his camera is rarely out of reach.

The details 

Date:         Thursday, 26 January 2012

Time:         7:00 pm

Location:   The Black Labrador, 4100 Montrose, Houston, TX

Dinner:        Cash bar and dinner

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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

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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.