Scuba Diving, PADI Divemaster and Instructor news from the Caribbean.

Summer in the Tropics June 10, 2011

Beautiful dolphins seen last week in Utila

Hello everyone from beautiful Utila!

So how many of you saw the massive storm that was over Honduras in this part of the world and threatening that it would rain solidly for 14 days? Luckily it changed paths and all we had was one day of rain. As that was the first rain in 4 months, it was actually very welcome. Then the next day we had beautiful clear blue Caribbean sunny skies again and it has stayed like that ever since which is great news for all of us on Utila, our divers, and those on our scuba diving internships! Just shows you get the best weather forecast by putting your head out of the window as seeing what it looks like!

Last week we also had an amazing day when we saw dolphins on the surface intervals. There were at least 80 of them and a mixture of both spinner dolphins doing tricks and the big bottle nose dolphins. The PADI Advanced students I were teaching got to jump in and snorkel with them for 15 minutes. What a perfect day and hopefully the Whale Sharks may be back again soon….watch this space for news.  Our June PADI Instructor course has just got off to a great start and all the candidates are very excited about making this a memorable Summer, and if anyone is interested we still have space on our July and August PADI Instructor courses (PADI IDC), though we recommend an early reservation as it’s looking to be an action packed and popular Summer.

The 15th annual infamous SunJam event is scheduled for this August 6th, see more www.sunjam.com and we’re expecting a record attendance and amazing event with this spectacular DJ line up.

This week saw ‘World Oceans Day’ celebrate Mother Natures gift to us and this coincided with the launch of the new Project Aware website, which we’re proud to be a featured member of, and you can read more about Project Aware and Utila Dive Centre environmental initiatives here, www.projectaware.org, and even set up your own member profile and link back to UDC so you can receive regular environmental updates from your favourite dive center in Honduras!

We’ll be sure you keep you updated as all the excitement and great diving starts happening this Summer and hope you get to be a part of it, both offline, online and underwater!