Well, we are well into the season now and Adriana has completed her DiveMaster qualification so is busy helping Mick out with Try Dives, Courses and guiding and doing a fine job too.

Mick also has a second DiveMaster trainee who comes in on Saturday afternoons to help out which is great. There are a couple of other guys who are helping out with the try-dives and will be starting their DM training in the very near future - the luxury of so much help!

Mick has now certified over 100 DSDs and has applied for the Digital Underwater Photography speciality to add to the list. This will go well with the new camera that has been recently purchased; a Canon G11. It is a complicated beast and so some familiarity will be needed before it can be let loose in the underwater world.

Oh yes, after a couple of EFR certifications recently, Mick now only needs three DMs for the coveted MI rating!

We have also had some excellent activities on Malta too, Shark Lab continues to grow and thrive, doing excellent research work both above and below the waves and recently a number of Loggerhead Turtles were released back into the sea having spent time in a rehabilitation unit here on the island. Links to Shark Lab and a full report of the turtle release are on the new website.

Recently we have had the great pleasure of seeing a Trigger Fish at Cirkewwa. We are convinced that there are two of them as photos have shown different sizes. Those on this page are of the larger one, christened 'Arnold' by your reporter, a name that seems to have caught on!

We at NDS have played host to some great clients recently. We had a group of SAA divers from the BTB (By The Book) club - there is a link on the links page. They did some great dives with us, including Connors' 100th dive, for which he chose the Carolita. More recently we have hosted a family from the Black Forest in Germany who have been doing some excellent dives on a variety of wrecks on both Malta and Gozo.

In amongst all that we have had numerous Try Dives from the English Language school, several people doing Advanced Open Water and two Spanish Girls who did a couple of Try Dives and had grins so wide afterwards! They had a photo taken by Adrian at Cirkewwa which is on the photo list - it is the one with yours truly and three sharks circling!