How Being a Diver Can Restore Your Life
13 January, 2017 at 5:34 am How Being a Diver Can Restore Your Life Posted by Alex Baackes Whether or not they are able to articulate how and why, divers from all walks of life will wax poetic on the healing properties of donning scuba gear and heading below the surface for a dose of underwater therapy. It might sound a…
Buying Marine Life Souvenirs
Although it’s natural to want to take a bit of our vacation home with us as remembrance, buying marine life souvenirs is never a good idea. Most of us never want our dive vacations to end. Leaving those sun-soaked beaches and post-dive afternoon naps is often a hard pill to swallow. So it’s natural that we want to bring home…
Your Diving Calendar for the Year Ahead
11 January, 2017 at 9:53 pm Your Diving Calendar for the Year Ahead Posted by Peta King Looking to plan your next dive trip? We’ve got you covered with some amazing diving destinations for every month of the year! January: Thailand – full of world-class dive sites, you’ll find so much to explore underwater in this tropical paradise. Thailand in January is…
Where and When To Go Diving with Basking Sharks
Where and When To Go Diving with Basking Sharks BY ANDY ZUNZ DECEMBER 22, 2016 Alex Mustard A basking shark in the Hebrides of Scotland With its mouth gaping, scooping up gobs of plankton, the basking shark looks like something straight out of a midnight science-fiction flick. But it’s that behavior that makes swimming along-side Cetorhinus maximus — the second-largest living…
Two in five divers report tooth troubles
Two in five divers report tooth troubles 4 January 2017 Many recreational scuba divers experience dental discomfort under water, if new research from the USA is to be believed. Forty-one of the 100 respondents to an online pilot survey reported experiencing painful symptoms during their dives. Barodontalgia or “tooth squeeze” was the most frequently experienced symptom. This condition, caused by…
Total Ban On Killing Of Sea Turtles Takes Effect In St Vincent and the Grenadines
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Top Dive Destinations When Not Everyone Dives
When planning a family vacation that includes diving, it’s important to consider the group’s non-divers. These top destinations offer both fun land-based activities and stellar dive sites. There is nothing more exciting than planning your next dive vacation unless, of course, some of the family doesn’t (or can’t) dive. Compromise is possible when it comes to planning a trip that…
How To Use Less Air and Get Longer Bottom Times While Scuba Diving
How To Use Less Air and Get Longer Bottom Times While Scuba Diving BY PATRICIA WUEST JUNE 6, 2016 Illustration by Alexander Wells/Folioart.co.uk Be properly weighted and swim horizontally to avoid adding and venting air from your BC. It’s the underwater equivalent to huffing and puffing during a weekend run while your friend bounds ahead of you — ending a dive…
London International Dive Show (LIDS) – Grand Prize Draw to Saint Lucia!
Grand Prize Draw Visit the Show and be the lucky diver to…Win a £10,000 dive holiday for two in St Lucia! Where there’s a Dive Show there’s always a Grand Prize Draw, and that means that someone stands to win free tickets for a fantastic holiday for two people. This time the Caribbean island of St Lucia has stepped…
Learning to dive – the 15 things you need to know
By Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell In the last 20 years, scuba diving has changed from a niche activity into a very popular recreational holiday pastime. Once the preserve of serious men with serious beards, and the occasional woman, recreational scuba diving has become something that is available to almost anybody that can afford to participate – from the age of 8…
