Merry Christmas Everyone!

Hello Everyone,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!

First up, I know it's been a long time since I've emailed some of you. This email may or may not be welcome, but I do intend to send out updates a little more regularly via email. If you don't wish to hear from me in the future, just reply and let me know and I'll take you off this list.

I have recently received some comments about the lack of up to date information on our website, sorry, my bad, been too busy with the diving to keep that updated, I promise to do better in the coming year ahead. In the meantime, I thought I'd send out this email to let you know what's on the plate next year for Living Seas. I've figured that this would be a more convenient format for disseminating information to you, I hope you agree as well.

Thresher Sharks!
A couple of highlights about what's coming up for us next year. We've recently tied up with The Thresher Shark Research & Conservation Project (http://www.threshersharkproject.org/TSRCP/Home.html) in Malapascua to help with their research expeditions. Our first trip there will happen in February and we're looking for like minded divers who would like to contribute to this week-long research project. Hopefully this will be the first of many trips there, and a long and fruitful collaboration between Living Seas, GUE and TSRCP. I've attached the invitation letter that they've sent me here,

Email me for details about this project, and we can hopefully do some good with the diving that we do!

Equipment Servicing
Living Seas will be opening up an in-house servicing workshop soon, so you can send your regulators to us for servicing too. In the near future, we'll also be offering some newly designed courses for people who wish to know more about their diving equipment and in-the-field repairs and diagnosis of common equipment issues. After all, you don't want to lose out on a diving holiday if your equipment fails on you the first day you get there!

GUE Fundamentals Courses
I've been thinking about this for a while now, and I've decided to open up a Fundies class in Tioman every month when the season is open next year. I'll be working out the dates for these courses, and will be publishing them on the GUE website and our Living Seas Course Calendar. Those of you interested to develop your diving skills further, please let me know and join in on a course schedule that works for you. Remember, this isn't just for Tech divers, but has benefits for divers regardless of training and experience.

Trips for 2010
January 6 (Wed) - 10 (Sun) : Anilao
February 21 (Sun) - 28 (Sun) : Science Trip to Malapascua
March 25 (Thu) - 28 (Sun) : Tech Trip to Repulse/Altair
April 1 (Thu) - 6 (Tue) : Sipadan (Good Friday)
April 27 (Tue) - May 2 (Sun) : Layang Layang (Labour Day)
May 27 (Thu) - Jun 1 (Tue) : Donsol (Vesak Day)
June 23 (Wed) - 27 (Sun) : Anilao
August 4 (Wed) - 9 (Mon) : Tech/Rec Trip to Manado (National Day)
September 8 (Wed) - 13 (Mon) : Bali (Hari Raya Puasa)
October 19 (Tue) - 24 (Sun) : Living Seas GUE Tech Trip
November 12 (Fri) - 16 (Tue) : Raja Ampat (Hari Raya Haji)
December 17 (Fri) - 22 (Wed) : Maldives

That's all for now, I hope to hear from you soon regarding any diving activity that you might be interested in.

Thanks,

Leon Boey