HEAD Acquires Aqualung: Big Changes in the Dive Industry
HEAD Acquires Aqualung: A New Era for the Diving Industry In a significant shift for the global scuba diving...
How to Prepare Your New Scuba Diving Mask
How to Prepare Your New Scuba Diving Mask for Crystal-Clear Vision Getting a new scuba diving mask is exciting....
Should I buy a BCD or a Wing?
Should I buy a BCD or a Wing? No matter if novice or experienced divers, often divers are wondering weather to buy a...
The Importance of Medical Fitness in Scuba Diving
The Importance of Medical Fitness in Scuba Diving Getting ready for your next dive trip? Are you fit to dive? Scuba...
The Thrill of Deep Diving: A Beginner’s Introduction
The Thrill of Deep Diving: A Beginner’s Introduction For many scuba divers, the allure of the deep blue is...
Divemaster Internship
PADI DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP - LANZAROTE - CANARY ISLANDS Want to spend your working time underwater and make your...
Lanzarote – A Top Diving Destination in Europe
125 km away from Africa an island emerges from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Dominated by volcanoes, this island...
Buoyancy Session 1 – The Buoyancy Check
The Buoyancy Check Good buoyancy starts at the surface, even before gearing up. It begins with the decision about the...
Weights vs. Buoyancy Control
Weights vs. Buoyancy Control Finally, the day has arrived—your long-awaited holiday begins. After eagerly anticipating...
7 Tips to Remain Near Fish
Did it ever happen to you that you approached a fish and it ran away as if the devil was after it? The excitement of...
The South Seas – A Destination To Be Discovered
R.L. Stevenson once wrote about French Polynesia that it is a place hard to reach, a place hard to live but even...
One Good Reason To Pee Into Your Suit
There are two kind of divers: the ones that pee into their suit and the ones that lie about it. Some articles state...
The Mediterranean Sea – A Forgotten Jewel
When one thinks about the best diving destinations, we almost always imagine tropical waters, white-sand beaches and...
Why to become a PADI Dive Instructor and how to find the right PADI 5 Star IDC Centre?
Why to become a PADI Dive Instructor and how to find the right PADI 5 Star IDC Centre? Welcome to the exciting world...
Best Diving Spots in Lanzarote – A Scuba Diver’s Paradise
Attention all adventurous divers! Are you ready to embark on a journey of underwater wonders? Look no further than...
Technical Diving Myths – True or False?
For many divers technical diving is like an icon, a myth. But why do people feel that way? At our Technical Diving...
Dive Center Reviews – Learn to Read Between Lines
THE STORY OF JOHN SMITH… John Smith is the manager of an insurance company. He discovered diving few years ago...
What should an Emergency Assistance Plan include?
It's one of those days...Everything just seems to be perfect, and then, suddenly, there is an accident at the dive...
Most Important Scuba Diving Abbreviations & Acronyms
When becoming a dive professional, apart of diving, there is a lot of theory to study. No matter how experienced you...
A brief Intro to Cave Diving
There is a moment in the life of every diver when the word “cave” appears. Some divers say they will never practice...
The Bad Habit of Swimming Fast
Have you ever wondered what kind of diver you are? Are you the one that swims quietly or the one that moves quickly...
The Angels of the Atlantic
When people think of sharks most of them have similiar images in their heads. Mostly it’s typical movie scenario,...
New Scuba Diving Guinness World Record
On the 24th of April, a Turkish diver set a new world record for the longest open water dive in cold water. Cem...
Ocean Gardener 4 – 9 Tips to Help Protecting Sharks
When people hear someone shouting “Shark!”, most of them will hurry up like roadrunner and are not seen again. Others...
Ocean Gardener 3 – 11 Tips To Start Helping Coral Reefs Right Now
Corals are some of the most spectacular creatures that inhabit our planet. They are, partly animal, partly stone,...
Become a self-sufficient diver – 8 tips to start with
What is the biggest step you can take to improve as a diver? Basically, the biggest change occurs the day you stop...
Amazing Facts About The Puffer Fish
Everyone knows the puffer fish. Even non-divers. It is a very famous animal for being a very special dish in Japan. ...
10 Reasons Why You Should Begin Technical Diving
There is a kind of mythology around technical diving. One may think that technical divers are risk-takers. Or that...
Ocean Gardener 2 – 14 easy daily actions against plastic pollution
Plastic – a material of daily use that at first sight seems harmless. The plastics have become a material present in...
Decision making: Diving when it rains
Is it OK to go diving when it rains? How can rain affect to our dive? Obviously, the problem is not getting wet with...
10 Special Christmas Gifts For Divers
What to give a diver for Christmas? The truth is that we divers, apart from diving, what we like the most is to talk...
Corals eat plastic because they like its flavor
“The chemical additives of these compounds make them very appetizing.” It is well known that corals ingest millimeter...
A diver swollen with nitrogen bags?
It happened 4 years ago. Alejandro, a seafood fisherman, was doing his work more than 30m deep. He suffered a free...
Buoyancy Session 5 – Take Control of your Buoyancy
In our previous Buoyancy Sessions you have learned to dive proper weighted, to perform a controlled descent and to...
Important – Suunto Product Recall
SUUNTO WIRELESS TANK PRESSURE TRANSMITTER AND SUUNTO TANK POD Suunto has just released a warning for all the users of...
17 Amazing Facts About Octopuses You Can’t Miss
The Octopus. A very strange creature. No bones and eight legs. For centuries the sailors have looked down at the deep...
Be An Ocean Gardener 1 – Respect The Garden
Our oceans suffer. We are loosing their underwater wonders. More and more the number of their inhabitants vanishes as...
Buoyancy Sessions 4 – Improve your trim
With our article Introduction to trim you understood how does your trim affect both buoyancy and efficient air...
Hollis and Oceanic Sold
This year is definitely the year of changes in the diving industry. First was the acquisition of Aqualung , and then...
The amazing parrot fish
A white sand beach merges with a turquoise sea on a dreamy sunset. Where does all this beautiful, soft, white sand...
The PADI statement about its sell
As we announced last March, Padi has been sold to a consortium of investors for 700 million dollars. Since the news...
Buoyancy Session 3 – Introduction of Trim
Previously (read our previous Buoyancy Sessions) you have learnt how to be proper weighted and to perform a perfect...
After 60 hours lost in a cave, they found him…alive!
Saturday 15th of April. “Sa Piqueta”, Mallorca (Spain). One of the largest caves systems in Europe.That Saturday, as...
Diving Between Immortals
The search for the secret of endless youth has been one of the biggest crusades amongst history. For centuries it...
PADI Sold For 700 Million Dollars
SOLD As we were informing a few months ago, Providence Equity, previous owner of PADI, was seeking in cooperation with...
Shopping Against Marine Debris – Save The Ocean!
Scientists state that in 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Hearing that, you feel like the fight...
The Biggest Danger Of Scuba Diving
Throughout my career I have been asked often: “which is the biggest danger of Scuba Diving?”. Curiously, one of the...
Good News – Sharkwater 2 Will Be Completed
On January 31st, the death of Rob Stewart shocked the world of diving. Any fatality underwater is a big loose, no...
15 Curious Scuba Diving Facts You Most Probably Don’t Know
There are a few facts that most divers know. Facts such as SCUBA stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing...
“One Billion Dollar Baby” – PADI for Sale!
PADI for sale for 1 billion US-Dollar… Background Providence Equity Partners (PEP) bought a major stake of the...
9 Tips to dramatically reduce your air consumption
One of the biggest concerns almost every diver has is the air consumption . Many times, already in the Open water...
Nitrogen Narcosis Uncovered
Nitrogen Narcosis, a word we hear constantly in the conversations of divers. It seems to be the source of many...
Buoyancy Session 2 – The Descent
The Descent The descent seems one of the simplest parts of diving. You just deflate your BC, get ready to equalize and...
Breaking News – Another Scuba Diving Icon Sold
BREAKING NEWS…BREAKING NEWS…BREAKING NEWS… Air Liquide, a french company and owner of the world famous brand Aqua...
The Northern Red Sea
The Red Sea is one of the most famous scuba diving destinations in the world. It got its name from the huge blooms of...
The Riviera Maya
The Reviera Maya – a top diving destination and famous for its endless white sand beaches and populated by exclusive...
“You are a very good instructor!” – 7 Things You Should Know Before Saying This
You are a very good instructor… …something almost any diver can identify is how many different styles of teaching dive...
The Southern Red Sea
The southern area of the Red Sea is not that popular yet and therefore it offers less crowded dive sites. In turn, the...