Blue
Water
Divers Newsletter:
October 2009 (#2009-3)
Hello
everyone!!
We
are happy to report many new exciting things in this 3rd
edition of
our Blue Water Divers newsletter for 2009. In this issue we cover the
following
topics:
1)
WELCOME,
Audrey!
2)
Moving
Ahead
3)
New
FACEBOOK
page
4)
Logo
CONTEST for
Blue Water Divers
5)
Air Turks
& Caicos flight bookings
6)
Additional
dive
boat safety gear
7) Farewell
8)
Salt Raker
Inn
OPEN
9)
We’re
MOVED IN
– on West
Road!
Also, we have
been going
over a lot of old files, old records,
and old contacts, as we begin the process of updating and consolidating
them into
one “clean” system. Hurricane
Ike, PC
crashes, and other events have conspired to create havoc with our
customer
information and we are now starting to get the data organized. Please forgive us if you
do not wish to be on
our mailing list or receive this newsletter, and simply let us know by
reply email
if you wish to be removed, or if we reached you in error. Once again we
do
apologize…
For those of
you who like
to receive this newsletter 3-4
times a year… READ
ON!
WELCOME!
After
visiting and diving on Grand Turk
for over 10 years, Audrey Harrell is no stranger to the island.
Originally from Pensacola, Florida,
Audrey has
graciously
agreed on
very short notice to help us out for awhile and take on the task of
trying to
keep myself and the guys busy by booking divers in these challenging
economic
times. She’s
starting to get things
organized in the office and is bringing order to our records and files,
which
look like they have gone through a hurricane…wait a minute, they
HAVE gone
through a hurricane! Audrey
is available
to take your calls and answer your emails, and I know you will enjoy
meeting
her on your next visit to Grand Turk!
MOVING AHEAD
You hear from everyone all over… things are …. SLOW!!
It has certainly been a tough year for Grand Turk, recovering from the
huge impact of
hurricane
Ike, while enduring these tight economic times….
But even though things have been slower than
ever, we try to keep in mind that Sept and Oct are always less busy
months here.
We are very pleased to say that we have at least a couple of divers
booked for most
days in Nov… Dec is still fairly slow, but we hope that will
improve as
well. We are
getting more emails all the
time, and look forward to having a good winter season!
NEW FACEBOOK PAGE
Many
of you are avid users of Facebook already. I have been
a late comer, but Audrey and Dan have gotten me on Facebook (where you can even
opt to become a “fan” of my music if you go to the "My
Band" tab on my Facebook page) and also have established a Blue Water Divers
interest group page. We update the Blue Water Divers interest
group
page periodically
from Grand Turk, and of course we love hearing from all of our diving
friends
about the great times they have had diving here in Grand
Turk and other destinations. It is an awesome
technology,
and we
invite you all to come have a look!
ATTENTION ALL ARTISTS AND
CREATIVE PEOPLE
Logo Contest! I am
looking for a new logo for Blue Water Divers… Something I can
use for the
website, business cards, letterhead, t- shirts etc…. Something
simple and eye-catching….
If you are so inclined, please email
or send me your entry by Dec 1st
2009 and the winner will receive a five day two tank morning dive
package!! Get those
creative juices
flowing!!
NEW WEB PAGE FOR AIR TURKS
& CAICOS
Air Turks & Caicos, the local air carrier who services
the flights between Provo
and Grand Turk,
has finally redone their web page
to take bookings and make
reservations online. We
can still help
those
folks who need assistance, but I have heard good things about the new
website,
and that it…WORKS to make a booking from the States…
Congratulations to Air Turks
& Caicos!
NEW DIVE BOAT SAFETY GEAR
Many of you who have been here before may recall that there
have never been any laws regarding professional boat operator
requirements.
That has all changed now, and we are fully upgraded on all boats with
Coast
Guard regulation safety gear. I
have
always
had a first aid kit, a DAN Oxygen kit and drinking water on our
boats…. But now
we are proud to also have Type 1 personal floatation devices for adults
and
children, fire extinguisher, flares, VHF radios…the whole works! It was not a small
investment to outfit our
three boats, but obviously a great idea, and one which we are happy to
comply
with…
FAREWELL
Many of you remember the good dives and friendly help that
Monica provided during her 3 years working at Blue Water Divers. She is a one of a kind and
was always ready
to help divers during their visit to Grand
Turk,
both on and off the dive boat. She has relocated to Oregon
to help
her sister Vicky move in and
renovate a new house and has plans to stay active in diving with some
underwater photography courses. We wish her all the best in her new
adventures
in Oregon!
SALT RAKER INN REOPENS
At long last the Salt Raker Inn has reopened!! Ericka
has
been working night and day and the place really looks great!! She has
four
rooms completely redone and the Salt Raker is back on track to once
again be one
of those special little beach front hotels!
Our
band High Tide played there the last two Friday nights
and we were definitely
rocking and rolling and raking and scraping!!
Congratulations
Ericka, and we look forward to many more
good times!
HOME AT LAST!!
Many of you know I completely lost my house on West Road
during Hurricane
Ike last year… But the good news is I was able to start
rebuilding last April,
and as of mid-Sept., Audrey and I have MOVED IN!!
Granted,
we are sleeping on a mattress on the
floor, and don’t have a kitchen yet or furniture or small things
like that… but
we DO have a bathroom and fridge (plugged into power at the post on the
corner
via extension cord) that keeps beer very cold!! We go for swims almost
every
day and I have to admit – I absolutely love being back
there… It is almost hard
to believe I lived in the old house that was here before for over 20
years!!
There is NO PLACE like HOME!!
Well that wraps it up for this edition. Thanks again
for
staying on our list, and we look forward to seeing you down in Grand Turk soon to once again
be…..
“Blissfully suspended
in the cobalt blue of the abyssal depths!!
See you next
time!!!! Mitch
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