NAUI is the acronym for the National Association of Underwater Instructors. It was founded in 1960 and is one of the oldest diver certifying agencies in the world. It is unique in that it is a worldwide, democratic, membership association, ...
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SCUBA: It’s not just a recreational sport…
I recently had the opportunity to meet an expert in underwater camouflage during part a month long educational seminar on Saba (see www.seaandlearn.org for more information). I had lunch with one of them and just chatted about his research on ...
Read More »What’s the difference between SSI and PADI? Part 1
Since PADI is “The way the world learns to dive” and a ‘PADI course’ has become synonymous with what is actually an entry-level Scuba certification, being an SSI instructor, I have necessarily developed a concise stock answer to this article’s ...
Read More »The Official Shark Diving Jedi
As the official Shark Diving Jedi I want to welcome everyone to the most exciting section of Scuba Jedi! Whether you actively seek out encounters with the ocean’s top predators or if you just bump into the occasional reef shark ...
Read More »Hola, hola, scuba diving in Spain
I want to share with you a dilemma which I had about ten years ago just before I moved to Spain, that for itself is an interesting story, but we’ll skip it for now. Ok, I’m moving to Spain, but ...
Read More »Night Diving Sucks – Am I for real?
Oh my god, did I just write that? I mean… how do I dare? Did I forget that diving is fun. That diving takes me places, that diving helps me meet people, do things? (sound “PADI” familiar?) Well, do I ...
Read More »Used Scuba Gear “To Buy or Not To Buy”
As a scuba instructor, I always have students wanting to know “What’s wrong with buying used scuba gear?” I try to approach this delicately. When buying from a dive shop you have to be certified to purchase all primary equipment ...
Read More »Where Have All The Sharks Gone?
“Fins to the left . . . Fins to the right, and you’re the only bait in town.” If we don’t change our behavior toward sharks, someday they might only exist in the lyrics of a popular Jimmy Buffett tune. ...
Read More »An intro to Costa Rica and Diving
Costa Rica, known as one of the most bio diverse countries on the planet and eco tourism capital of the world, but diving?! Even to date, in the whole grand scheme of things Costa Rica is not the first place ...
Read More »Scuba Diving in a Wheelchair – Breaking the Barriers Underwater
Out of the wheelchair and into the blue. I can go backwards, forwards, up, down, and side to side. It’s just like being an astronaut in space. What freedom. Try scuba diving. Scuba diving in recent years has become the ...
Read More »Why not Drysuit Diving…
Why Dry Suit? Why Not!! I have spent many happy dives in a 3mm Shorty and never thought I would ever Dive in a cold country, But I started to realize what a waste it was not to dive in ...
Read More »Diving in the Caribbean
Dreams of 32 degrees water amazing visibility, Wrecks, Drift, Dives, Biggest Brain Corals, the Caribbean has it all. Its where my Scuba life started sitting by a pool in Antigua along came my first instructor Carlo Constantini he took me ...
Read More »NAUI: The student diver is the reason
The student diver is the reason… why NAUI has dedicated 35 years to developing the finest recreational diving instructors in the world and supporting them with the most stringent recreational diving safety standards. Scuba diving is an soft-adventure sport, and ...
Read More »Diving or a Diving Career in Vietnam? Let’s set the scene!
Vietnam is a relatively new-world dive destination when compared to the big names like The Red Sea, The Great Barrier Reef, Bali & Thailand. This is however one of the attractions for tourists & divers; it’s not yet over-commercialised with ...
Read More »Liquid Image Scuba Mask: Looks pretty cool
Not to often we see new cool scuba products, it seems that many products in the scuba diving industry are the same same… boring stuff… but this one… well, what the heck! It looks very very cool… and yes…I want ...
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