Scuba Diving
Few hobbies in life involve travelling to some of the world’s most beautiful destinations and communing with nature in such an amazing way as scuba diving. Entering the underwater realm means being transported to a whole new world, vastly different from the one we inhabit in our normal lives. It is hard to worry about quarterly business results when you are eye-balling an intelligent octopus, swimming in a school of hammerhead sharks, or finning along a reef wall riotously coloured with sponges and sea fans and schools of fish darting all around you.
For some the idea of a vacation is to lie on a beach doing nothing but looking at the sea. For scuba divers all the fun lies in the sea. Whether staying at a resort and accessing sites from shore or by dive boat, or enjoying the comfort and convenience of a splendid liveaboard yacht, divers often want to spend as much time as they can hanging out with the marine life. The world is full of amazing scuba diving destinations.
Trip the Light Fantastic – Night Diving with Fluorescence
You like night diving? Here is a whole new view of the reef at night with eye-popping colours and detail you won't believe. Watch as creatures of the reef come to life in vivid neon colours and patterns you have never seen before. Stare in wide-eyed amazement as...
Heart Surgery – Diving with a Healthy Heart
Heart disease is a very common condition these days, unfortunately. But does it have to mean the end of your scuba diving career? What do you know about heart disease? Get clued up … Heart problems. Photo courtesy: Freepik. It is increasingly likely that when you are...
The Photographers’ Wonderland that is Raja Ampat
Everyone knows that Raja Ampat is an amazing destination for scuba diving, but why is it such a mecca for underwater photographers? What are the forces at play that result in incredible diversity, amazing density of life and innumerable photographic opportunities? ......
Diving with Kids – Next Generation Starts Here
What age were you when you learnt to scuba dive? Would you love to have learned when you were younger? How young is too young to start scuba diving? In this revealing article, Amanda Garside investigates the pros and cons and recalls her own dilemma when her daughter...
Fan the Flames: Smoking and Diving
Why do so many divers (especially dive professionals) smoke? Does it have any effect on people's ability to dive? Does it increase the risk or severity of decompression illness? In this fascinating article we look into the 'why', 'how' and 'so what?' of...
Rashes, Reactions & the Runs: Note of Caution for Divers
We all know that scuba diving is amazing and a great way to commune with and marvel at nature, but when venturing beneath the waves, we are entering another world, with different rules and occasionally there are some minor annoyances to deal with. So before you set...
Are you an annoying diver? Dive etiquette: know the rules
You can choose your friends but you cannot always choose your dive buddies. Although the pleasure of the tropical sea and the joys of the underwater world make diving holidays the best kind of getaway, sometimes others can get under your skin. Dive bores, the smell of...
Cocos Island National Park: Costa Rica’s Remote Kingdom of Sharks
Aerial view of Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Photo courtesy: Argo The Cocos Island National Park is located in the Pacific Ocean, 330 miles (535 km) southwest of Cabo Blanco in Costa Rica. It covers 9 miles² (24 km²) of land and 760 miles² (1,977 km²) of ocean. It has a...
The Diving Wrecks of Truk Lagoon – Historical Events of World War II
Operation Hailstorm, World War 2, Feb 1944 The shipwrecks of Chuuk Lagoon in Micronesia are the remnants of one of the most devastating naval attacks of World War II - Operation Hailstone. This U.S. military operation in February 1944 destroyed much of Japan's naval...