Have a look at this page if you would like to know what goes on at Orca Divers. You can also go to our Facebook page to check up on events and news and get in touch with other club members. Click here to go to Facebook now. To see what else we are getting up to soon click here for our calendar.
Orca Divers have a couple of places on up coming trips to Dorset and Brighton. If you need tempting them have a look at recent photos from Cornwall on Flickr or on our Facebook Group
Orca Divers and Frogfish Photography are now a UK supplier of Nimar Housings - who offer the best value for money if you want to take a SLR camera underwater. Have a look here for more details
Orca Divers, in association with Ocean Optics, would like to invite you to enter the Diver Magazine online monthey competition and have a chance to win a trip to the Philippines - for more details please click here.
Orca Divers and Frogfish Photography are now open until 7pm every Thursday evening. This means that if you find it hard to get to us after work - Thursday is you day! It also means you can get prepared for diving at the weekend by getting your tanks filled and buying any acessories you might need. For our full opening hours click here
Orca Divers and Frogfish Photography are the only centre to have been awarded the INON Underwater Photography Academy in the North-West. IN addition to our exisitng underwater photography courses, we can now provide INON equipment sales, offer advice on INON products to both compact and SLR users and provide tuition to all levels of underwater photographer.
Orca Divers had a successful diving day out in North Wales on Sunday - our first dive was planned for all level of diver at Trearddur Bay in Anglesey with shallow depths and easy shore dive entry. Our second dive was for the more experienced in the group and was another shore dive under the Menai Bridge. Caroline was competing in the NUPG Splash-in competition for underwater photographers. The weather was splendid with sunshine, no wind and warm temperatures. Underwater the temperature was only 8 degrees and the vis a little less than expected - but both dives offered plenty of marine life and wonderful scenery to explore.
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We are offering a fabulous dive gear package with quality equipment from TUSA. Click Here for more details on this BCD, Regulator, Octo, Gauge and free gift offer.
Do you have an old set of scuba equipment forgotten in the attic or shed? Is your gear getting a bit tired? Do you fancy treating yourself to some nice new diving equipment for the 2010 UK diving season? If so you could take advantage of the Orca Divers Scuba Scrappage Scheme. Send us, or bring in, your old regulator set* and BCD and we will give you between £150 and £250 off a new set from Orca Divers. Your old equipment will be assessed and either donated to a not-for-profit scuba diving club or it will be scrapped and recycled. This is a great opportunity to get some new equipment in time for the fabulous summer we are going to have! The offer will be available from the 1st March until the 31st May. *Regulator set must include 1st stage, primary and octo second state, gauge and hoses to receive the full benefit of the Orca Divers Scuba Scrappage Scheme.
We have a new Underwater Photography course starting in February 2010. Click here for more details
We will be running dedicated sessions at the Manchester Aquatics centre with the pool set to 5.1m for the whole 2 hour session - so the you can practise Buoyancy, SMB deployment, Underwater Photography (on our artificial reef), Free-diving, try out new gear, practise skills or just have some fun in this amazing underwater indoor space. With the pool at this depth we have over 2250 cubic meters of water to dive in! Just call us to find out when our next session is being held.
Orca Divers will be at the London International Dive Show on March 27th and 28th to promote Frogfish Photography, Sealux housings, Visions in the Sea Summer Series and our fantastic underwater photography trip to South Africa.
We have a wonderful adventure planned for this year in September in partnership with African Space and Andrew Woodburn. We will be diving Sodwana Bay and Aliwal Shoal and also doing a safari in Pogola Game Reserve, all under the guidance of expert photographer Andrew Woodburn. Give us a call on 0161 718 3118 for more details.
We have moved Orca Divers to a new location right in the heart of Chorlton, Manchester. Our new address is: 557 Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 8AN. We also have a new business focusing on underwater photography called Frogfish Photography. Our compressor is now up and running!
Orca Divers have returned from a wonderful trip to Indonesia - possible our best ever trip! With up to 4 dives a day on offer some of the group managed over 30 dives in warm waters in Bunaken National Park, Bangka Island and the Lembeh Strait. Nick and Caroline also managed to pop over to Borneo and dive Sipadan, Mabul and Si-Amil before meeting up with the group in Kuala Lumpur. Our Far East trips are certainly offering great value for money and we will be looking to organise a budget trip to the region again in the near future.
Orca Divers are hosted the festival of underwater photography in Manchester on 7th and 8th November 2009. Some of world's best underwater photographers came to Manchester to give presentations and in-water tuition. The event was in aid of the Shark Trust and there was an International Underwater Photography Competition, Exhibition of finalists, trade stands, and a gala dinner on the Saturday night. www.visionsinthesea.com