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30th October 2005
Annual Beach Clean ( Calpe )
More than 100 divers took part in this years Calpe Beach Clean. The event is organised by the town hall where all the local dive centres and divers take pert in cleaning the coastline. after the event the town hall laid on a gigantic paella and drinks for everyone who took part.
	11th September 2005
	Annual Beach Clean ( Benissa )
	More than 70 divers took part in this years Benissa Beach Clean to help clean the local coastline. The annual event takes place every September, based in the port of Les Basetes. Eight boats left the port on Sunday morning to collect as much rubbish as possible, following on from last year we found more of the sunken boat which made up a large portion of the rubbish collected. Following the dive a free lunch and T-shirt is provided for the participants by a collaboration of the town hall and local sponsoring businesses.
	19th June 2005
	Sunfish Season at the Peñon de Ifach
	Over the last week and a half we have spotted Sunfish on no less than 5 dives, our first sighting of them came on the 9th of June when we saw four sunfish on a cleaning station at 14 metres followed by two others on separate occasions but the best dive with them to date on the 10th of June when we were diving at Flat Rock and managed to get within 1 metre of six sunfish measuring between 2 and 3 feet across at a cleaning station at 18 metres. The sunfish paid very little attention to our presence and let us spend about ten minutes with them before they left. We have also spotted a much larger sunfish on a couple of occasions on the surface around the Peñon de Ifach when travelling to the dive sites.
20th May 2005
First trip to Pulpo Island and Elephant Cave of 2005
These two dive sites never fail to impress divers. On our first trip to Pulpo Island this year we were amazed with the variety of life that was there, with lots of scorpionfish, octopus, moray eels, barracuda, lobsters, nudibranchs and even a fly by with a torpedo ray. Our first dive of the year to Elephant Cave was also very nice, with the insides of the cave covered with small shrimps and a very nice slipper lobster. For more information about these dives or any of our other dives take a look at our dive sites page or contact us by e mail Pictured on the right: Elephant Rock, at the base of the elephants trunk is the entrance to the first cave.
	22nd April 2005
	First night dive of 2005
	Tonight we carried out our first night dive of the year at Los Arcos, with five divers we dived for almost 50 minutes and found a whole family of scorpionfish, octopus, squat lobster and many other fish life either hiding or hunting.
23rd March 2005
Sunfish at Les Basetes
First sunfish spotted this year on a dive at Flat Rock, the sunfish was about 50cm tall and stayed around for a short while before disappearing. ( picture is not actual sunfish )
	5th and 6th March 2005
	London International Dive Show (LIDS) 2005
	After a successful dive show in London we would like to thank everyone for their help and support and look forward to hopefully seeing some of you diving with us this year, If anyone has one of our show offer flyers then we will extend the show deals as long as you bring your flyer with you for the rest of the year.
October - Present
Local Centres work with Town Hall to Sink Wreck
The dive centres of Calpe are currently working closely with the Town Hall to promote the diving in the area. Plans include placing moorings at the most popular dive sites to protect the environment and obtaining a boat from the military to sink as a wreck for the area. This is an ongoing project and the dive centre will be involved along the way - watch this space for more news.
25th December 2004
Christmas Day Dive!
7 divers took to the water on Christmas morning for a dive at Los Arcos. We are open all year - think about it for Christmas Day 2005!
26th September 2004
Calpe Beach Clean
60 divers took to the sea along Calpe's long sandy beaches and around the Peñon de Ifach for this years Calpe Beach Clean. We are glad to say that very little rubbish was collected from the sea, making Calpe's coastline one of the cleanest in Spain.
	12th September 2004
	Benissa Beach Clean
	This years annual Benissa beach clean saw 65 divers collect over 100kg of rubbish from the sea along Benissa's coastline. Although this sounds like a lot of rubbish, a very large proportion was made up of two large pieces of a boat that was broken up in one of the bays along the coast.