Scuba Ranger Programs

In many hotels and resorts Sea Bees Diving offers try diving sessions in the pool. Guests become familiar with equipment and learn how to see and breath under water and finally become curious of diving. We think that you cannot start diving early enough and that is why we support different Scuba Ranger Programs. Children from 10 years old can attend. First we have a sort of classroom session in which we explain some things about the equipment and we tell them how to snorkel and dive. After that we have a pool session and we show how much fun it is while we play some games. Our instructors love to do this because what is more beautiful than a childs laugh from ear to ear!:razz:

Der Kracher

Hallo Ihr Sea Bees,
daß meine Frau Silvia und ich seit Jahren schon begeisterte Sea Bees Fans sind steht außer Frage. Schließlich möchte man sich ja nur mit den Besten identifizieren. Aber das neue Video von Euch ist der Kracher. Absolute Spitzenklasse. Sehen uns wahrscheinlich im Februar wieder.
Grüße an alle ,die wir kennen.
Silvia und Kersten

Sea Bees sagt: Hallo Silvia und Kersten, wir freuen uns, daß das neue Video euch gefällt! Bis im Februar!

Multihull Regatta

Last weekend the Third SEA Property International Phuket Multihull Championship 2010 took place. Sea Bees Diving was one of the sponsors.

The Fireflys, catamarans and triamarans were back for another regatta from July 16 – 18. 20 yachts, their crews, friends and families participated in the three days of racing and four nights of parties. The regatta is an increasingly popular event and is a perfect feeder event for Six Senses Phuket Raceweek. During the multihull championship there were five races to be held on the Friday (2), Saturday (2) and Sunday (1) with evening parties at the Yacht Club sponsored by Sea Bees Diving and two other companies.

Sea Bees Staff could follow the Sunday race on board the directors boat. The finish was pretty exiting because 4 boats finished within 2 minutes time!

All teams had an amazing time and the price giving party was a succes.

Precarious moment

Pffff, I’m glad I made it to the hotel meeting yesterday! Sea Bees is cooperating with a new 5 star hotel on Phuket and we had a final meeting about when to start and talk about the last details. The hotel however is still under construction and the site is a muddy place. No problem, I have been on the site before….mmm yes, but then the weather was nice and the roads were dry….. Now it’s raining season and it looked like a big swamp! Watch out for the alligators, brrrr. Fortunately I didn’t take the motorbike but the pick up truck which was a blessing I found out later. One little detail: the executive assistant to the GM forgot to mention that I had to take a different route! Too late, I was on the construction site already and had to make a phone call to inform him that I would be a little late because the muddy road was blocked by big trucks. No problem, he gave me new instructions and I would be there in 5 minutes.

However, this would become a memorable trip…..an oncoming truck couldn’t pass and gestured that I had to move the pick up aside. So, as gently as I am, I did what he asked and then BANG! The pick up was stuck in the mudd and I couldn’t move it in a million years! The good thing though is that I’m a woman and the construction site was full of men. I blinked my eyelashes a few times and in my best Thai/English I asked if they could help me. No problem madam, you go, no problem. After they saw that the front wheel was burried in mudd, they understood that they needed machine power. Meanwhile I was blocking the main construction road and no truck or whatever could pass. After 20 minutes I was saved from my precarious situation and the pick up was pulled out of the mudd!

All men were applauding when I made it save to the main road again. I was only 30 minutes late at the meeting :lol:

Schnorcheltauchen ist sehr gesund

Der Auftrieb entlastet die Gelenke und fördert ihre Beweglichkeit. Angeregt werden auch die Atemorgane und das Herz-Kreislauf-System und die Muskulatur wird gekräftigt. Beim Flossenschwimmen mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 50 Metern pro Minute verbraucht ein Taucher alle zehn Minuten immerhin 200 Kalorien. Probiere doch einmal aus!

Tintenfisch Paul

Das Angebot klingt verlockend: Paul, der Orakel-Krake aus dem Sealife-Aquarium in Oberhausen, könnte seine Karriere im nordspanischen Caraballino (14 000 Einwohner) fortsetzen – ausgerechnet als Maskottchen für ein Gastronomiefest.

Die Idee, „Pulpo Paul“ (500 Gramm) als Werbefigur zu erstehen, stammt von Bürgermeister Carlos Montes. Er hofft, mit dem Oktopus mehr Besucher zum Fest in Galicien zu locken. Für den WM-Star als Maskottchen würden alle Unternehmer zusammenlegen.

Mit einem Wechsel in das Land des WM-Finalisten hätte Paul Abwechslung. Bisher führte der Tintenfisch ein bescheidenes Leben. Er hat zwar Tausende Fans – hatte aber noch nie Sex. Denn eine Tintenfisch-Dame hat’s noch nie in sein Aquarium geschafft. Außerdem hat Paul in diesem Jahr seine letzte WM gespielt! Er ist inzwischen zweieinhalb Jahre alt und wird bis zum nächsten Fußballfest in Brasilien 2014 schon lange im Tintenfisch-Himmel rumkrakeln – älter als drei Jahre werden diese Tiere nicht.

Doch ob Paul den neuen Job mit seinem Gewissen vereinbaren könnte, ist fraglich. Im Mittelpunkt des Gastronomiefestes steht das galizische Nationalgericht – Tintenfisch!

Das WM-Finale, heute abend Niederlande –  Spanien!

Vitamin E und C gegen den Tauchschwips

Bei einem Tauchgang steigt der Druck in den Lungengefäßen, das Herz wird stärker belastet und die Blutgefäßwände sind nicht mehr so elastisch. In 10 bis 15 Metern Tiefe nimmt der Stickstoffgehalt in der Lunge zu, was eine Art ‘Schwips’ zur Folge hat -im schlimmsten Fall jedoch zur Ohnmacht und zum Ertrinken führen kann. Antioxidanten wie Vitamin C und E können diese negativen Folgen neutralisieren. Laut einer Studie eines kroatisch-norwegischen Forscherteams an Profitauchern waren in der Versuchsgruppe, die Vitamin C und E zu sich nahm, die Blutgefäße weniger stark beeinträchigt als in der Placebogruppe. Sie waren nicht so stark erweitert und konnten besser auf abrupte Veränderungen der Blutflusses reagieren. Gehören Sie zu den Anhängern des Tauchsports? Dann versorgen Sie sich während Ihrer Tauchreise verstärkt mit Antioxidantien!

Born Fan Club

On behalf of the Born Fan Club, of which auspicious organisation I lay claim to Membership Number #0001, I’d like to thank all at Sea-Bees for making my (June) 2010 holiday such a perfect experience. Every “dive day” ran like clockwork, from the hotel pick-up in the morning, through the transfers to the Excalibur, the cruise to and from each dive site, to the timely return back to my hotel in the evening. The dive boats, Aragon and Excalibur II, are comfortable, spacious, comprehensively equipped and brilliantly organised, a place where everything happens with quiet, simple, efficiency. Food, drink and catering are simply first class, with your Team performing culinary marvels on a daily basis.
And all of this is before we even mention the diving… During my 3 weeks with you in June of this year I had the pleasure of diving with every member of your Team – and without exception everyone was superb. Every single dive was a wonderful learning experience…. Whether it was picking up dive craft tips, or discovering more about local marine life, or how to get the most out of my camera, every single member of your Dive Team is skilled, enthusiastic, friendly, patient and knowledgeable – and their willingness to put in so much effort to make sure that every dive is a “perfect” dive is a real credit to Sea-Bees.

The care and attention to detail of the pre-dive briefings made for a richer dive experience; the “local knowledge” of your Dive Guides meant that on every dive we managed to find an amazing selection of local wildlife – and have plenty of opportunity to get some excellent photographs. And yet I think the most striking memory for me was watching your Team work together – they are so skilled and experienced that everything “just works”, but the respect and sense of fun they bring to the day make for a real “Sea-Bees Family” atmosphere, and that’s really special.

But, best of all, there’s Born. Somehow, Born takes diving to a whole new level… Not simply by virtue of being my Instructor, Dive Guide, and Dive Mentor; not because of a super-human ability to find every possible variety of marine wildlife; not just because she is a superb diver… but because she has an incredibly infectious enthusiasm for what she does.

Born: you are, quite simply, The Best!

So thank you Sea-Bees, for a truly wonderful 2010 vacation. I can’t wait to come back and see you again soon!

Clive

Sea Bees says: Hi Clive, would you like to run our marketing campaign? Thanks for the fantastic comment! I think Born will blush when she reads this, sooooo many compliments  ;-)

Phuket family to climb Mt Kinabalu

Two young sisters, nine-year-old Kasia Sambrook and her sister Alicia, 6, are in training to scale one of the largest mountains in the region next month in order to raise money for stray dogs. The two girls have their eyes on the 4,095-meter peak of Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, the fourth highest peak in the Malay Archipelago. All of their efforts will be in the name of their favorite charity, the Soi Dog Foundation (SDF).
They family decided to do the climb a while ago, since Borneo has always been a fascinating destination for Ania, who once worked in the mountains of southern Poland.

Kasia and Alicia have a history of helping out at SDF, so they decided to raise funds for the organization through their climb. Their involvement in SDF has included weekly trips to help walk adult dogs and cuddle pups. They also adopted a dog from the foundation in October last year.

To help support the girls on their journey, visit the Soi Dog Foundation website (soidog.org) or email: homeschoolphuket@yahoo.co.uk

Terrific time

Dear all at Sea Bees,
Andrea and I are now safely home and back into the relative hum drum of work life.  We both wanted to write and say a huge thank you for looking after us and taking us diving on our recent holiday.  We had a terrific time, and were very sorry not to be able to dive with you more what with Andrea getting poorly.  Please pass our thanks to Blackie, Nigel and Boon, who were all fantastic dive masters.  Your entire setup was very impressive and should we return to Phuket we will definitely dive with you again, and we will recommend you to all heading that way, and our travel company. Thanks again, all the very best,

James and Andrea Fairman

Sea Bees says: Hi James and Andrea, thank you so much for your compliments, we will pass them on to Blackie, Nigel and Boon. We are looking forward seeing you at Sea Bees soon again!:lol: