The Houstonian Hotel, Resort and Spa hosted Santa Claus for an underwater photography session. The Houstonian staff were on hand with Hot Chocolate complete with marshmallows and the Oceanic Ventures staff were in the water taking the photographs and entertaining Santa! People of all ages joined us and even a little rain did not stop the festivities. To see what you missed…
Santa Claus
Santa Visits West University
This past weekend, Santa came to visit and pose for underwater photographs. What a fun time! Here are some highlights…
Scuba Santa 2018
- What: Santa In the Pool
- Where: Houstonian Hotel, & Spa
- When: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Note: The Houstonian is a members only club so you must be a member of have a member set it up for you to have your photo made here.
On Wednesday, Santa will be at the Houston Racket Club with the Kinkaid Swim Team and the Houston Racket Club Swim Team and some of their members.
So you can see, he really gets around when he is town!
Scuba Diving Santa Visits West University Place
This past weekend, Santa once again returned to the City of West University Place to pose for photographs underwater. This annual event benefits the West University Parks Department and showcases Santa’s love of diving. Santa posed with divers, snorkelers, swimmers who were adults and children.
The Oceanic Ventures Staff including, Travis Hershey, Zaide Scheib, Joel Hershey, Leia Zuczak, Coad Worden and photographer Eric Keibler, helped with the event by keeping things organized and flowing.
We had a great time and met a lot of fun people during the event. If you missed the event, we will all be back again the second weekend of November 2017.
Santa Is Coming – Scuba Santa in West University 2015
On November 7, 2015 at 11:00 in the morning, Santa will once again arrive in the City of West University Place to pose for pictures with all of the good girls and boys (and let’s face it we are all girls and boys at Christmas). This is your opportunity to hand Santa your diving slate with your wish list for the holiday season and to have your picture made, on scuba or without, underwater with Santa. The photos make great Christmas or holiday cards or a fun shot on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or Snap Chat.
We have a great time and the proceeds of the event help the City of West University Recreation Department.
Make time and have a fun photography taken with Santa and his elf…
The Holidays are Coming for Scuba Divers
Wow, it has been a busy month here at Oceanic Ventures this month and it is not even half-way over.
Our charity event, A Night in Old Havana, was a great success. We grossed over $8,000 for the Oceanic Ventures Foundation which was set-up to donate money and products to the places we visit as scuba divers. The event itself was based around an old McNamara family photograph (yes, I really am Irish). Sheridan, the professional Mixologist from Don Q Rums, served up very special cocktails while Ashton kept the trays of food rolling from the kitchen. Zaide and Alex helped serve the treats as did Ann and Eric. There is no way we can ever thank all of the people who helped up pull this event off, but we will try. We would like to especially thank Bob and Joyce Hoover, Ashton Arsement, Zaide Scheib, Jeremy Eich, Rosemary Keibler, Steve Soulen, Steve Jurbala and Joel Hershey. We also want to thank our sponsors Don Q Rums, Cobalt Coast Resort, Dive Tech Grand Cayman and Tusa. We also received some extra special gifts from Jim Turley and Lee Emerson. You should check-out all of the photographs from the party. We have posted them on our Facebook page.
Santa also dropped by for some underwater photographs. We had both scuba divers, free divers (snorklers) and just swimmers jump in to have their photos made with Santa Claus. Our favorite elf, Zaide, had a great time posing with Santa. And, we almost made it onto Fox News — the talent, Ruben Dominguez, canceled on us at the last minute and the camera man did not want to film without him. The loss was even harder since Eric, Ann, Alex and Heather, the Activity Coordinator for West University, all had to be at the pool at 6:30 in the morning! But oh well, we still got a few fun photos of Heather with Santa Clause. We want to thank everyone who came out and helpped as well as those who helped us with the event including Travis Hershey, Zaide Scheib, Joel Hershey, Keegan Madden, Alex Witschey and Eric Keibler.
Of course, the specials do not end with these events. The Holidays continue with some other special events including:
- November 23 Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- November 29 Black Friday Relief
- November 30 Small Business Saturday
- December 3 Tote Bag Tuesday
- December 12 Frank Sinatra’s Birthday
- December 14 Sarong Saturday
- December 17 Bathtub Party Day
- December 23 Phileas Fogg Day
- December 30 Make Up Your Mind Day
There are special pricing and give-a-ways each of these days. You really must read more about them; they will be loads of fun!
