Manta's News and Events

Dive to Lead – Manta, the diving instructor’s qualification center
We, at Manta Diving Center, take pride that we are not just another general public “Diving Club” but a real diving center – a PADI instructor training center where all the diving and specialty courses can be taken, from the most basic level to the PADI Master Instructor level. In our center, the entire team can advance, whether be they dive masters, regular instructors, desk personnel or office staff, we find everyone equal underwater.

Recently, we decided to reinforce our instruction team with new, young and energetic instructors; among them are Maayan Nader and Chan Miloh our veteran dive masters and Lisa Podolovsky whom all the Manta members and divers meet when they arrive to the diving center offices. This team was joined by additional trainees and also by Ruthie Navon and Eyal Segal, the veteran instructors, who are now both taking the PADI Staff Instructors course following which they will also join Manta's Instructors training team. We wish them all good luck and warmly invite anyone who wants to take the Instructor Course to come and join us! 
For more information about our instruction courses please visit the PADI Instruction Courses page.

 

The Poseidon's MK6 closed circuit re-breather for scuba diving was launched at a closed circuit systems conference sponsored by Isrotel Manta Diving Center, The Israeli Diving Federation and Poseidon company. During that conference, divers enjoyed a try dive priced 50% of the regular price, learned about closed circuit systems from Poseidon's expert Mr.   סברקר פאלמבלאד and received a thorough and comprehensive lecture about the requirements, learning material and qualification conditions for the closed-circuit system diving instructor level from a representative of the Israeli Diving Federation. During the conference, the systems were demonstrated in the diving center's swimming pool and a Happy-Hour party was held at night at the Rondo Bar of the adjacent Isrotel Yam Suf Hotel.

Manta Diving Center offers the first scuba-diving closed circuit system course in Israel. This course takes only three days.

 

Protecting the sea even during the winter!

Come and help us keep the sea clean at a beach cleaning day to be held on Saturday,
December 18, 2010.

Manta diving center invites its customers, divers, swimmers, sailors and sea and environment lovers to participate in a beach cleaning day that will be held in Eilat on December 18, 2010.
The event is sponsored by the “Protectors of the Gulf” organization, Manta Diving Center, the Israel Nature and Park Authority, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and other organizations. Divers and participants are requested to assemble at Kisoski Beach, to recieve a pre-dive briefing at 15:00 PM.

Also you can influence and contribute to the nature protection awareness and to the protection of our sea! Come to contribute and influence, with your help we will keep our sea clean and dive-worthy. You can register at the Manta Diving Center and with all the other participating organizations. Click here to register.

 

Epson Red Sea 2010
"Epson Red Sea” is the main international event of the diving and underwater photography world, annually held, during November, at the ”Manta Diving Center”. The competition is sponsored by Epson Corporation, Isrotel Hotel Chain, Maccabee Beer, Red Sea Tourism Administration, the Papua New Guinea Tourism Ministry and the Cyprus Tourism Ministry.
The competition is participated by Israeli and global underwater photographers, among them professional, amateur photographers and even children who enjoy photography. During several days of competition they all dive with Manta’s assistance in Eilat's diving sites, take photos for the different competition categories (5 best images portfolio,  best singular entry, fashion & nudity, the best humoristic image,  the children of Epson and more). As befitting the world's most important competition, the prices awarded to the participating photographers amount to $$80,000 in addition to diving safari packages around the world. Starting from 2011 it has been decided to open the common borders with Jordan and Egypt, and photographers will be able to also participate in the competition with images from these countries, capture images at their favorite diving sites in Sinai and Aqaba,  and to submit the photos to the competition in person or at the border terminals. The event also offers underwater photography workshops, social nights with music, drinks and food, the traditional opening cocktail party, which is held at the underwater observatory with the presence of all the VIP and celebrities and an all-night farewell party on the beach. The competition is held at the Isrotel Yam Suf hotel and at the Manta Diving Center by “Magazine Yam (Sea)” the Israeli diving magazine and in cooperation with the Underwater Conservatory marine park in Eilat and the Dolphin Reef.
Additional details are available at the competition website: http://www.eilatredsea.com or via Manta email:diving@isrotel.co.il.

 

Eilat's Children Gain More
As result of cooperation between Isrotel Manta Diving Center and Eilat's local youth cultural centers, a new certifying diving class for children over the age of 12 will operate in conjunction with the coming school year and upon the class conclusion the children will receive diving certificates. The lessons that will be delivered by Manta's instructed will include subject such as diving principles, marine ecosystem, human physiology in addition to swimming pool and open water dives. The children will be qualified with PADI Junior Advanced Open Water level. The lessons are subsidized by the local youth cultural centers and are reserved to Eilat's children and youth.
Click here for more details and information.

 

APEKS Regulators – only at Manta
APEKS – England is currently considered as the company that manufactures the most reliable high-quality regulators in the world. The company’s products are praised in all the reviews and reports with the slogan “If you are set buying a faultless regulator – buy APEKS”. And indeed, the most technical diving organizations today recommend using no other regulators than APEKS’s.
APEKS prime product lines are the 100, 50XTX or 200 series. The models share the same quality but slightly differ in their design.
These diving regulators are dry and their internal mechanisms are water and climate-proof, their quality is thus maintained in all diving and weather conditions even in a hostile environment.

TEK3 APEKS REGULATOR
A new recently released model, sold like hot cakes among the professional diver community.
Specially designed for use with twin cylinder, right hand and left hand versions to help the technical diver prepare the most convenient platform for any possible configuration and allows easy access to all the cylinder valves.

XTX-20 APEKS REGULATOR
Recreational divers can also enjoy APEKS Company’s quality. This regulator is balanced on the two levels and is ready for use.
With maximum 40 percent oxygen-enriched air, it is offered with an uncompromising breathing quality and at a convenient price tag.
APEKS regulators are exclusively imported and distributed by Manta.
You may contact Manta store for more details or to make an order.
Phone: +972-(0)8-6382240.
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To the End of the Desert
What can we do when kids are on vacation and are “yearning” for a diving course but they are at the middle of the desert? This is also not a problem for the Manta Diving Center, which became a “Mobile Diving Center” on wheels and reached Kadesh- Barnea to carry a diving course for ten children in the middle of the desert.
Kadesh-Barnea is a quiet and tranquil community settlement by the Israeli-Egyptian border in the vicinity of Nitzana. “Several years ago we had a diving course in the community, it was arranged by the regional council's welfare department” recalls Einat Shoshani, a mother of 4 that initiated the course. “Now, my son Artal has turned 12 years old and decided that he also wants to learn diving”. The rumor slowly spread in the community and Ten children from the 6th and 7th grade signed up for the course. The task was assigned to Eviatar Madar, an instructor most admired by all the children that he has trained or is training in Manta. He loaded half of the diving center on the truck including diving cylinders, weights, equipment, suits and of course also extra gear and took off to deliver a diving course to the arid desert's children.
"It was great. The children really wanted to learn, they listened and actively participated in all the drills and practices I gave them” says Eviatar. “The community itself is such a wonderful place, very friendly and cordial people and lots of children playing in the pool and in its adjacent club”.
During those two days, the children had theoretical lessons, practiced diving in the pool, learned how to remove and replace the mask, find the regulator, empty the regulator and perform mouth - to mouth resuscitation. They also learned how to plan the dive and how to use the charts to calculate the dive's duration and depth. “The children are all excited and can hardly wait going to Eilat to complete the Course” adds Einat, “... they even already replaced their Facebook photos with their dive's photos".
If everything goes as planned, the children from Kadesh-Barnea will arrive at the Manta Diving Center, about one month from now, to complete their open water dives and to be qualified as ordinary divers.