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Dive the Bahamas from Stuart Cove's July 10 through 19th Cable Beach Wyndhan Hotel & Casino Limited spaces available wendy@oceanenterprises.com

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Werner & Myra Kurn, owners of Ocean Enterprises and Roz and I will be sharing our experience and connections in the field of dive adventure travel. Our aim to bring the best trips at quality resorts and live-aboards with sensible itineraries at a fair and competitive price. OceanEnterprises.com

Remember, our tours include airfares

July 10th --- 18th Dive Bahamas at Stuart Cove's Wyndham Nassau Resort. Use your FF miles? with Chuck & Roz, Price $2,695. with no air-- $1,995. uwchuck@san.rr.com -- wendy@oceanenterprises.com

July 27th --- August 6th Borneo and Malaysia, Dive Sipadan & Mobul, visit the orangutan sanctuary. with Werner Kurn $4,095. wendy@oceanenterprises.com

August 26th ---September 4th Vavau, Tonga, Swim / film with Humpback Whales, Fiji extension available. with Chuck & Roz $3,695. uwchuck@san.rr.com -- wendy@oceanenterprises.com

October 4th --- 17th Kasawari Resort, Lembeh Strait Sulawesi Indonesia, Critter capitol of the world, $4,695. Reduced price. with Chuck & Roz uwchuck@san.rr.com-- wendy@oceanenterprises.com

November 21st --- 29th Palau Micronesia Palau Pacific Resort, Manta rays, Jelly Fish Lake, Blue Corner, with Werner Kurn $4,395.Economy $6,995. Business wendy@oceanenterprises.com

2009 Trips

February 10th --- 21 Wakatobi Indonesia 7 nights at the resort, 1 night in Singapore, Charter flight from Bali, pristine reef walls with Werner Kurn Price TBA wendy@oceanenterprises.com

January 30th --- February 10th Thailand Liveaboard 9 nights on the MV Mermaid, explore the varied and colorful waters of Thailand. with Doug Gueldner approx $3,640. wendy@oceanenterprises.com

For more information on all trips click on --Chucknicklin.com/Trips

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Nassau Bahamas at Stuart Cove's Dive Center

July 10th thru 18th 2008
$1,995. price with no airfare, use your frequent flyer miles

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Join Roz & Chuck for a week of diving in warm caribbean waters, with walls, reefs, & numerous wrecks We will stay at the Wyndham Hotel & Casinoon Cable Beach. Fly US Air on an evening flight allowing an afternoon and evening to relax before diving 6 days. There will a free day to explore Nassau the day we arrive

The story of Stuart Cove, a nice guy.

Prior to opening his first dive operation, Stuart Cove captained a diving / snorkeling boat for Club Med. In the summer of 1977, Stuart landed a job as stunt / safety diver on the James Bond feature film "For Your Eyes Only" starring Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet. During the filming of this job, Stuart's skills as a "shark wrangler" and dive instructor quickly stood out. By the end of the shoot he had established himself as a competent U/W production support coordinator. "For Your Eyes Only" allowed Stuart to put enough money in the bank to buy his first dive boat. In 1978 Stuart used that boat and began to run his own dive business on the island of New Providence. That boat docked and left from the canal behind his fathers house on New Providence. Back then, Stuart offered a single 1-tank dive each day. If he was lucky enough to take out 20 divers that was considered a great day! However, it also meant spending the rest of the day and part of the evening filling each of the 20 tanks one at a time from an old, slow compressor.

That one boat operation proved successful and Stuart Cove built a good reputation for offering quality services on New Providence. As a result of that reputation, in 1983 the Lyford Cay Country Club invited Stuart to assume the responsibilities for managing their watersports concession, in addition to continuing to offer the regularly scheduled dive trips. Stuart Cove now offered water-skiing, banana boat rides, and other water sport activities to club guests. Divers who were not members of the club were picked up in Stuart's shuttle bus and brought to the club for their dives. Upon completion of the days diving activities they were returned to their hotel.
During the several years that went past while operating out of this location, Stuart Cove grew to become one of the leading dive operators on New Providence Island and continued to achieve outstanding customer service.

The second significant event during this time period occurred when Stuart hired a childhood friend with whom he grew up, Michelle Berlanda. Stuart's achievements in managing dive operations and customer service were equaled by Michelle's ability to manage the business operations. Together they laid down a strong infrastructure for the business to grow on.
In 1983 Stuart and Michelle, reinforced themselves as the leading underwater film production coordinators on the island during the filming of "Never Say Never Again". This Bond thriller starred Sean Connery and Kim Bassinger. This time Stuart was the lead underwater coordinator. As part of those responsibilities Stuart personally certified Mr. Connery and Ms. Bassinger as divers in order for them to complete their rolls. In addition, Stuart choreographed underwater fights and again led the "shark wrangling" team.In 1992, Divi Hotels sold the South Ocean Golf Beach & Dive Resort and as a result the property was left without a dive operator. With a strong reputation already established and a successful business already operating just a few miles away, the new owners sought out Stuart Cove to assume the dive operations at the hotel. In order to implement this expansion, 3 custom dive boats were purchased. In addition, a new larger air storage system was obtained. A full retail boutique opened, and a host of other equipment required was purchased in order to create one of the Caribbean's leading dive centers.
In 1994 Stuart and Michelle acknowledged the strength of their teamwork and made their relationship permanent by becoming husband and wife. In the spring of 1996 the team grew by one with the birth of their son Travis. In 1998, Stuart & Michelle were blessed again with the birth of daughter Sasha.
With all of the growth since 1978 one of the things that we are the proudest of, is that almost everyday customers at Stuart Cove's will see and be greeted by the bosses, Stuart & Michelle Cove, who insist on maintaining a hands on management style by being directly involved with their customers and seeing that they experience the adventure of a lifetime.

uwchuck@san.rr.com or wendy@oceanenterprises.com

For more information click on --Chucknicklin.com/Trips
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Tonga's Humpback Whales

August 26th --September 4th

New Pix from Vavau, Tonga

To see a video on Tonga's Humpbacks www.mlptravelvideo.com/Movie_5.html

For more information click on --Chucknicklin.com/Trips

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Kasawari, Lembeh Strait, Indonesia

October 4th -- 16th 2008

Worlds best Muck diving & Kasawari Boutique Hotel Share Roz & Chuck's favorite creature spot, Fly Singapore Air, 1 night in Singapore on the way home. Chuck's Kasawari DVD is free just contact us October is the perfect month

uwchuck@san.rr.com or wendy@oceanenterprises.com

For more information click on --Chucknicklin.com/Trips

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Chuck & Roz Proposed Trips for 2009

Baja Gray Whales --- March Botswana, Africa --- April

Truk Lagoon --- July Egypt's Red Sea ---September

Papua New Guinea --- November

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Apples and Bananas---When purchasing any travel plans make sure you are aware of the inclusions as competing plans often are not equal. Does the trip include all airfares -- meals, what meals, visas, park admission costs, fuel surcharge, recompression chamber fee, taxes, mandatory service charges, land transfers, credit card charge fees. Don't hesitate to ask for information.

The small print

Reservations are only firm with deposits. Minimum deposit $500. The larger trips require a $1,000. deposit. Most trips need full payment 90 days in advance. As a rule all deposits are refundable until the last 60 days. After that we will try to fill your spot to reduce the amount of penalty. Trip insurance is available.

There is no extra charge for credit card payments. If you are getting mileage on your credit card on a long trip the double mileage often adds up to a free domestic round trip. Some dive trip organizations do not have facilities for credit card payment.

Many Airlines are adding a fuel surcharge that may not have been included in your original ticket price. Please be aware that due to changing airfare prices, schedules and world conditions quoted prices may change. All trips are priced double occupancy but in some cases there is opportunity for a single supplement at additional charge
On all diving trips each diver must have a SCUBA certification card by a major instruction company. On all trips smoking is not allowed or seriously restricted. Good physical conditioning with no serious medical limitations is required on all trips.

On many trips, youngsters under 18 are not invited.