SCUBA News of the Day
8 June 2020 is the 17th World Oceans Day a United Nations recognized global annual event that unifies the visions and voices of billions of people like us – people who are passionate about and concerned for the oceans. It’s an important outreach …
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Part Two in Jill Heinerth’s Underwater Canada Series: Shipwrecks, Icebergs, Whales and a Mine
Shipwrecks, icebergs, whales and the Newfoundland Bell Island Mine await scuba divers looking to explore in Eastern Canada.
A 2300-year-old stone anchor inscribed with a dolphin symbol has been retrieved by scuba divers off the north-west coast of Sicily. Read more…
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Written and all images provided by guest blogger Joanna Smart. Tasmania is an island state lying off the southern coast of Australia. Famous for untouched wilderness, rugged weather, artisanal food and apple production, the state is a haven for the ad…
TravelThese are the five best regions for scuba diving in Mexico.
The Revillagigedos are a group of four volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean that lie 250 miles off Baja Mexico and include Socorro. They attract schooling hammerhead, tiger, and silky sharks, dolphins, jack and barracuda, whale sharks and famously manta rays. Read more…
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Diving doctors have expressed concern that they do not know how scuba divers’ lungs and heart will recover after Covid-19 infection. Read more…
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It’s been a shaky start to the year for all of us. I hear the words “when everything is back to normal…” but with carbon emissions falling fast, wildlife showing up in abundance, and blue skies replacing smog in busy cities, I can’t help but think, may…
The water is cold but usually clear and filled with life when diving British Columbia. Here are some tips to make the experience even more enjoyable.
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Let your wanderlust take over.
Whether you are looking for an eco-retreat or a luxurious overwater bungalow, these five dive resorts are located in some of the most remote corners of the world.
NewsThe Cocos-Galapagos Swimway aims to safeguard marine animals migrating nearly 500 miles between Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park and Ecuador’s Galápagos Marine…
The Scuba Murcia dive-centre in southern Spain says it has been working closely with PADI and TecRec instructor Simon Townsend to become the only PADI dive centre in Europe to be able to offer the PADI Tec Full Cave Diver course. Read more…
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Scuba divers have investigated the remains of what is thought to be a late 18th / early 19th century ship off Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The timber hull has disintegrated but an Admiralty-pattern anchor, 2.5m cannon and cast-iron ballast have been found, suggesting that it was an English sailing vessel. Read more…
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Over the past decade, the phrases ‘eco’, ‘eco resort’ and ‘eco lodge’ have grown hugely in popularity. From Raja Ampat, to the Mexican Riviera and the Honduran Bay Islands, ‘eco’ options are now a standar…
As a subcontractor diver for Commercial Diving International Services (CDIS), Michael Cuesta has had his fill of underwater adventures. So, when NASA came calling, he didn’t miss a beat. Unbeknown to him, the task was something Cuesta had been tr…
For this week’s competition, we’ve teamed up with our good friends at AP Diving to give away one of their Self-sealing Surface Marker Buoys with an Easifil Adaptor as a prize! The AP Surface Marker Buoy is very simple to inflate safely using any inflator hose via the Easifil adaptor. The APSMBCI with Easifil includes: […]
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We’d like to say a big thank you to all of you who entered our competition to win a Suunto D5 Dive Computer! As usual, lots of you entered… but there can of course be only one winner. And that winner is… Lorenzo Rigo from Spain! Congratulations Lorenzo – your prize will be on its way to […]
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Next in the series of weekly videos from Divers Ready! Underwater noise makers. Scuba Tank Bangers. Lobster sticks. Dive Alerts. I’ve confiscated them all in my time. Because if you can’t be trusted to dive with them normally, I’m going to have to take them away! There’s all kinds of ways to get attention underwater. Here, we go over the basics of UW signaling […]
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There’s a small bright spot in our COVID-19 world. Local waterways and beaches are thriving with fewer people around and marine mammals and schools of fish have been spotted closer to shore. What does this mean for divers? Your local dive spots are g…
As divers and ocean-lovers, we are well aware that marine debris and plastic pollution are negatively impacting ocean health globally. With PADI’s longstanding commitment to ocean conservation, and new mission to create a billion torchbearers to …