Ash Cloud

[waterbabe]

Hey dudes over in the desert. Hope the ash cloud isn't messing you up too much. How has it been for you? We were meant to be coming over holiday cancelled can't change holiday dates for another couple months

[dreamerdiver]

No so not good news. it has affected the world we are stuck in sharm, can't book diving as our tour operator aren't going to give us any notice before our flight goes. We just have to sit an wait

[Dive Bunnie]

Grief it is bad news wherever you are. We have a whole bunch of students out here, who being on flight only packages, are being treated very differently by their respective companies. One flew out BA, so is being put up in the Renaissance.. all very nice, while she awaits the next available flight. However, another booked Easyjet and has been told that the next flight she can have is on the 2nd May, but no financial help while she hangs out in Sharm for the next 2 weeks. I think some of the students are going to get some financial help from their universities, as this was a fundamental part of their course.

The dive centre has given all stranded divers cheap prices if they want to do some more diving, however many can't even afford that

Today we have three divers from our main centre, although quite a few at the Hilton Waterfalls (which tends to have a variety of nationalities) are diving! Wow.. we would normally have anything in the region of fifty to a hundred divers with us on any single day... so... no work for us this week.

This couldn't really have come at a worse time, with the European economy just about struggling to its knees, it is going to suffer from this kick back for some time. Even the most unlikely businesses are feeling the effects.. like florists, food shops, even car manufacturers have had to slow down production due to lack of parts!

[divarr217]

And it has come back again! Just to taunt us.

No idea if we will get out on our dive trip this week. Flight was cancelled yesterday totally bummed out

[cloudyfish]

And it's all gone now. Nothing but a smoke ring in the sky, like a puff from a cigarette. Peace reigns once more and we can all go back on our holidays.