Deep Sea Resort - Dive Centre
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| Deep Sea Resort | Dive Centre | ||
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Batticaloa Sri Lanka |
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| felicianfernando@hotmail.com | http://deepsearesort.webs.com/ | ||
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| The Deep Sea Diving Resort is located on the estuary/west side of the land between the estuary and the sea to the North East of Batticaloa. The whole area had been devastated by the tsunami in December 2004 with some 10,00 in that area alone being wiped out by the huge waves that came ashore. There were plenty of ruins nearby where we could see for ourselves the impact and power of the waves that hit. The lagoon/estuary bar silts up around October, and the eastern monsoon kicks off after that. So the HMS Hermes dive season usually finishes in late August or early September. The resort itself had been built earlier in 2010 and we were one of the first dive groups to use it. Everything is built on sand and this means it's hard not to track the sand into the rooms. The two accommodation blocks had 3 rooms each. Four of the rooms had air-conditioning. I was fortunate enough to score a room to myself with air-conditioning. The rooms were large and clean, but basic. Two single beds and a side table were the only furniture. Two compact florescent lights for lighting and two power points (so if you have lots of stuff to charge, bring your own power board). The bathroom was spacious. (The next morning while brushing my teeth I was thinking about the accommodation. Clean, basic and functional. Hardly the luxury digs I'd become accustomed to on some other dive trips. But then I noticed through the bathroom window that there was a couple sleeping on the sand in the open under the sky of the block of land next door. By comparison I was in luxury digs!) First up on arrival we gathered in the kitchen/dining hut for introductions, a briefing and to sign waivers and have our certifications checked. The operation was run by Felician 'Feli'. Head boat captain was Vincent, with 'Sherek' and 'Shirantha' as the other two boat captains. 'Buddhika' was the chef, assisted by 'Mahesh'. 'MS' was responsible for cylinder fills and 'Vivek' worked as the cylinder porter, taking cylinders back and forth from the compressor/fill room to the dive boats. Batticaloa is a Tamil region. All the people at the dive resort are not Tamils and not from Batticaloa, or even East Sri Lanka. They come from Negombo, near the airport north of Colombo, on the other side of the Sri Lanka. They come across for the dive season with the boats, compressor, cylinders etc. We were told that if the Tamils came and said they had to go, everyone would clear out fast. The electricity supply was an issue. Typically they had good power continuity and voltage at night and lower voltage and outages by day. However, things were worked around this issue rather well. Hanging on the wall of the compressor/cylinder room were three large sized plans of the HMS Hermes from a set of five marked: HMS Hermes Devonport M.C.D. 6488 30-4-1924 Reg No. 4301396 Subject: Hermes Press Mark: R Later some of the others would spend time attempting to morph these two dimensional plans into the twisted three dimensional pressence they were seeing of the ocean floor. ------------------------------------------- Deep Sea Resort is situated near Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka. The resort is walking distance to the beach and next to the Batticaloa Lagoon. Owned and operated by Felician Fernando. Deep Sea Resort offers 6 comfortable rooms, most air-conditioned, with attached bathrooms. All the rooms are twin rooms, but can be converted to king bed rooms on your requests. The resort is just next to the Batticaloa Lagoon, All of the rooms are garden view with easy access to the restaurant. Deep Sea Resort is a part of the larger Sri Lanka Diving Tours operation. See also: https://www.srilanka-divingtours.com |
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| Diving Activity with Deep Sea Resort | |||
| 1 dive trip with this Dive Centre: | |||
| HMS Hermes - Aug 2010 | |||
| 5 dives with this Dive Centre: | |||
| 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | |||