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!
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.
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:
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!
The 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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You may not have known it, but Santa Claus is a scuba diver. He spends his vacations in such tropical locations as Fiji, Palau, Grand Cayman and Honduras. Since he spends so much time in the north, he sunburns easily so he took up scuba diving as a way to enjoy the islands but not get too burned. He loves the water and really enjoys swimming with the fish. In 2012, his goal is to begin rebreather diving.
