Small Business of the Year Award

Triton Scuba were honoured last night to be awarded the Small Business of the Year Award. The awards, sponsored by The News, Business Link and a host of other large organizations, took place at the Guild Hall. Guest speaker was, "they think its all over - it is now" Geoff Hurst who entertained over 500 diners with anecdotes and stories from 1966.

With over 180 nominations it was a great achievement for a small company like ours to come first, especially when you look at some of the competition in the same category. During the presentation, BBC presenter Sally Taylor said that the award recognized our success over the year in a number of our business ventures, and she also mentioned the huge amount of work we have done for charity and within the community over the years.

We would like to thank all the customers, friends and staff who have helped us continue to be the Premier Dive Centre in Portsmouth and now the Best Small Business. More details of the night in this months newsletter.

Congratulations as training gets underway in 2008

We have a full programme of courses planned for the year from Open Water to Instructor. This weekend we got the programme off to a flying start with Open Water and Drysuit starting. And with many courses filling up quickly it looks like being another good year ahead.

Many congratulations to our first drysuit course students of the year who braved the elements and plunged into a freezing Horsea this weekend.

"Making Blue Movies" a Great Success

It was a full house at the Royal Beach hotel for the first club night of the year and the presentation by Mike Pitts. Mike very kindly offered to come along and talk on his experiences as an underwater film maker. Over 100 turned up and it was nice to see so many from some of the other clubs in the area, including, Hampshire Police, Southsea, and Cockleshell Divers. The event was not only great fun, but also raised £400 for charity. On behalf of the club I would like to thank Mike for giving up his time to come and speak to us and making the event such a success. I have posted a couple of images on the website if you want to take a look. We hope to run more events of this type in 2008 so watch this space.

BBC Shoot at Stoney Cove

Well it was not quite Mexico, but the shoot at Stoney Cove on 9 January went really well. We provided diver and supervisor support for the day which had divers taking surface collision flares underwater. We knew they worked from the rehearsal day just before Christmas and although we never got to see the final results the word is that camereman Mike Pitts got some excellent footage. It was long day and great fun, but you will have to wait until next year to see the results. I have posted some images from the day in the gallery under the special events section.

Call the Fashion Police!!!!

We have to be honest, we missed it at first! Alex's shocking fashion statement at Vobster Quay caused many a hardened BSAC diver to feel quite ill. So for those of you who didnt't quite see it ..... here it is again. Be afraid, be very afraid ...