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SCUBA News is offering you the chance to win a logbook and guide to Northern Wrecks and Reefs of Egypt's Red Sea. To win your copy just e-mail news@scubatravel.co.uk with the number of diving guides currently in the Travelling Diver series. For a hint see Issue 104 of SCUBA News.

The prize comprises a loose-leaf pack of pages in full colour, each dedicated to a single dive site. Every page gives a detailed dive site description or wreck history, with room for you to write your own notes. There is also a very good map of the dive site, information on difficulty and location. As well as being a guide the pages are designed as a dive log, with boxes for you to fill your dive details: sea conditions, temperature, maximum depth, bottom time, etc.

The guide really does manage to pack loads of information into a small space and covers most of the dives you will do on a week's liveaboard holiday.

The pack has two spare logbook sheets with room for you to log four dives. The sheets are standard 3-hole diving logbook size.

The Travelling Diver series make it easy for you to record your dives in much greater detail than the few notes most of us scribble down about the site. Focusing on a very small area - just the dives you might experience on a week's trip - means the guide is compact and light. No need to pack several thick, heavy books. The downside of course is if you visit different areas of the Red Sea often, it can become expensive to have to buy a new guide for each trip. Although not if you win one in the SCUBA News competition!

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SCUBA Travel, the guide to diving around the world, is celebrating the 100th issue of its newsletter SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) with a free prize draw. Any subscriber to SCUBA News can participate, and subscription is free at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/news.html. The free stuff on offer includes SCUBA Travel merchandise like pens, fridge magnets and caps, plus diving books.

Elsewhere in the 100th issue is a newly updated list of the top 100 dive sites of the world, as voted for at the SCUBA Travel web site. Top of this list is the wreck of the Yongala in Australia, closely followed by Blue Corner Wall in Micronesia and the Thistlegorm in the Red Sea.

The publishers of SCUBA News would like to thank all their subscribers, especially the many who have sent contributions, questions and comments since the newsletter was launched eight years ago.

The Editor of the newsletter, Jill Studholme, says "I am very pleased to be editing SCUBA News as it reaches its 100th issue. Eight years is a considerable time for an independent e-mail publication and much of the success of SCUBA News is owed to the enthusiasm of our readers. They send us both criticism and praise, both of which help us progressively improve the newsletter."

Over the years SCUBA News has changed from being a purely text-based newsletter, to offering the choice of an HTML issue with colour and photographs. The main focus is still on content though, with not just the diving news from around the world but articles on diving areas, marine life, ocean facts and everything you need to know before visiting a new diving destination.

To read the 100th issue of SCUBA News visit http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/scubanews100.html

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SCUBA News are giving away two copies of the Hurghada Dive Guide and Log Book. To enter the competition e-mail name of the author of the Hurghada dive guide, together with your name and address, to news@scubatravel.co.uk before 30 April 2008. (To find out visit http://www.travellingdiver.com/.)

The prize is the forth guide in the series and covers the very popular diving area around Hurghada, on Egypt's Red Sea coast.

The format remains consistent with the other guides - loose sheets designed to fit into a diving logbook binder.

The guide covers 16 dive sites, usually with 2 dives per site. Most of the sites are reefs but there is one wreck at El Mina.

There is an A5 double sided page for each site which can be slid into a 3-ring binder with your other dive logs. The first part of the guide allows you to write in all your personal dive details (time, gas consumption, conditions, weight, temperature, cylinder details). There then follows a description of the site, its location including co-ordinates, a 3-D map and usually a couple of recommended dives. The maps are excellent - showing the dive site very clearly.

Turning over there is a more detailed description of the site covering, geography, history and marine life you are likely to encounter. It really packs in loads of information. At the bottom of the page is a space for you to add your own dive notes.

All in all these are great little guides and money well spent if you are going to the area as nearly all the dives you will do are covered. If you are planning a trip to Hurghada then this will help you prepare and give you a good idea of what to expect.

Copies may be purchased from http://www.travellingdiver.com/ or Amazon.co.uk.

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Win a dive guide to Safaga, on Egypt's Red Sea coast. To enter just tell us how many dives sites are included in the Safaga pack (visit http://www.travellingdiver.com/ to find out) and e-mail your answer, together with your name and address, to news@scubatravel.co.uk before 29 February 2008.

Designed for the recreational holiday diver, the guide integrates detailed site-by-site information and maps with loose-leaf logbook pages. The pages fit into a standard 3-hole diving binder and let you research, plan and record your dives in one place.

You can purchase the Safaga guide from http://www.travellingdiver.com/ or Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0955640229/nws-21. Or wait and see if you win our competition!


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Win a logbook and guide to Marsa Alam in the Egyptian Red Sea.

The guide comprises loose sheets designed to fit into a diving logbook binder.

The pack covers 16 sites in the Marsa Alam area: 11 shore dives and 5 off-shore reefs which you would need to dive from a boat.

The guide is extensive and covers all the sites you are likely to do on a week's holiday to the area and more. It includes Elphinstone reef which in my view is one of the best sites in the Red Sea and one I am particularly familiar with. The coverage of this site confirms my belief that these guides are accurate and do detail most of what you will need to know for the dive.

The pack contains the dive guides and also 2 spare logbook sheets (4 dives). All the sheets are standard 3-hole diving logbook size and contain a section for collecting dive data, a guide to the site including a 3D colour drawing, a description of the site and marine life. Finally there is a section for you to add your own notes on the dive.

The data section is very detailed and covers: the usual dive data on duration time, air consumption, weight as well as gas mix, tank type, visibility, water temp, sea conditions. In my view more than enough information.

All-in-all a good idea: I like the idea of a combined dive log and guide.

Review by Andrew Reay-Robinson

About the author of the guide
Julien Stein began exploring the remote diving destination of Marsa Alam in 1999, when it was still a largely unknown diving region. Over many years he created detailed maps of the different dive sites in the area. Today Julien continues with his explorations of new dive sites, while also coaching beginner divers and writing articles for diving magazines.

Win a free copy...
SCUBA News has two copies of the Marsa Alam dive guide and log book to give away. To win your copy, name three of the 16 dives sites included in the Marsa Alam pack (visit the publishers - http://www.travellingdiver.com/ - to find out.) To enter e-mail your answer, together with your name and address, to news@scubatravel.co.uk before 31 January 2008. Note: your details will be deleted when the competition ends - you will not be sent any junk mail.

If you are not lucky enough to win a copy you can purchase one from http://www.travellingdiver.com/ or Amazon.
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Our World Underwater are launching their third annual international photo and video competition. Photographers can compete in seven still-image categories and two video categories, to win more than $50,000 in prizes including liveaboard trips to Mexico, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Red Sea, Grand Cayman, Soloman Islands and Vietnam; underwater camera equipment; diving equipment and books.

The competition includes a category for images that focus on conservation and the marine environment, and one specifically for entries taken by compact digital cameras.

Deadline for submissions is 13 Jan 2008.

For more information see Our World Underwater.

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