Tassie Divers to converge on Bicheno!

The 2nd Tasmanian Combined Scuba Clubs event will take place, on the Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th of May, 2006. After the success of last year, it was Ocean Divers Plus' turn to organise another fun weekend where divers from every where get together and basically have a great and fun weekend getting wet and talking diving, in one of arguably Australia's best dive spots.

Bicheno again chosen because of the central location in Tasmania, the various dives available for all levels, plus in May the vis is usually pretty good and the days are hopefully still warmish?

We would like as many Tasmanian divers there as possible with most the activities based out of the dive centre, with Bicheno Dive planning to bring over some gear for us to try out and a few other surprises.

A new feature of the weekend will be a digital underwater photo shoot out, open to all amateur photographers with two categories for best Tasmanian photo from the last year and the best photo taken on the Saturday.

We also plan to run a raffle with dive gear up for grabs.

A fun event back this year will be the scuba Olympics, where groups from the various clubs will test their scuba skills over a selected course with the much heralded trophy up for grabs. Currently Ocean Divers are the holders of the perpetual trophy with plenty of the other clubs currently training to take it off their hands.

It will be a big weekend for Tasmanian diving, and a great chance to just catch up with others who are just as crazy at diving in the cool waters around our beautiful state.

A big thank you to Bruce from the Bicheno Dive centre for helping us with this event, and to all the other diving business around Tasmania for the contributions they have made.

For any questions on the Tasmanian Combined Dive Clubs Weekend, please call Ken Saville, president of Ocean Divers Plus inc, on 0419 177 540.

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