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Every dive can be a magical mystery tour, but never more so than when you find yourself in a part of the underwater world where few have gone before, a true secret spot.
Bahamas Getaway with UNEXSO and The Grand Lucayan Grand Bahama Island, home to eight wrecks, sharks, dolphins, glorious reefs, endless white sandy beaches and blue holes. Stay at the Grand Lucayan hotel on the beach, just two minutes walk to the dive shop, and right in the heart of Port Lucaya!
Have a big family? Lots of friends? Get a small group together, pay for 5 divers and the 6th diver travels free. Enjoy an incredible scuba diving trip diving in warm, 84-degree water with Mike Ball Dive Expeditions' luxury liveaboard dive vessel Spoilsport. Witness incredible shark action and glide along bottomless wall with 45m (150ft) visibility. Our Great Barrier Reef sites will have you exploring rarely visited, pristine reefs where the size, biodiversity and density of large tropical marine life are truly amazing.
SHARK ADVENTURE WEEK - Ranked one of the top 100 Dive Resorts in the world FREE Resort Course in the pool to refresh or learn how to Scuba Dive $1199.00 Rate per person/Double Occupancy required SHARK WEEK Adventures Bimini BIg Game Club Resort & PADI Dive Center 60 foot glass bottom dive boat with bathroomsFull Line of Dive Equipment
Enjoy more diving and less stressing with these 10 dive accessories that won't break the bank.
Travel dive gear is lighter - so you can pack more stuff without incurring excess-weight fees. It's more compact - allowing you to take what you want in fewer bags - eliminating extra baggage fees.
The Top 100 Gold List of operators, resorts, live-aboards, underwater experiences (i.e., best wall, shore and wreck sites), dive bars and more was determined on a “popularity contest” basis. Rankings are based on the total number of responses, regardless of category.
Author James M. Tabor — an active diver and former Scuba Diving magazine contributor — has what it takes to bring this cave-diving thriller to life.
The results are in. Based on the opinions of thousands of divers from across the globe, our annual Top 100 Readers Choice Awards showcase the best scuba diving in the world.
Early in the morning, the sun’s rays penetrate deep into the cavern of this cenote, creating magic. The model and I were free-diving, so I just waited for the right moment and the right framing.
Got a great underwater image? Here's how to get it noticed by photo editors and make money from your hard work.
Scuba Diving staff took a trip to Blue Heron Bridge with 2012 Rolex Scholar Megan Cook. Check out what we saw on this shallow shore dive.
Check out these photos from Scuba Diving staff's dive trip with 2012 Rolex Scholar Megan Cook.
Here are the ten most popular articles that turned heads and caught eyes in 2012.
Casey Key is a barrier island at the southern end of Sarasota County, in Nokomis, Florida. The exclusive island is home to the popular Nokomis Public Beach, which is where SCUBAPRO and Florida Underwater Sports hosted the fourth Submerge With SCUBAPRO event.
Working together is the only way to protect these fragile ocean resources.
Legislation designed to protect the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands has been key to the recovery of the chain's reef habitat.
Divers spot an aircraft wreck; jumping sharks; and the colors of Indonesia.
I was lying on the bottom of this famous site, waiting for action to come to me, when a couple of California sheephead approached.
Go eye to eye with one of the ocean’s mightiest apex predators, the great white shark.
Meyer achieved a new world record in the dive modality of Skandalopetra, reaching a depth of 68.9 meters.
Divers flock to Islamorada to try SCUBAPRO's latest BCs, dive computers, regs and more!
Take a minute to add your voice to the scuba nation calling for protection for Fiji's sharks — take action today!
Aqua Lung is pleased to announce that Jack’s Diving Locker in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii is now a factory authorized Suunto Service Center. Their repair technicians have gone through extensive factory training and have installed state of the art diagnostic equipment to enable them to perform any and all servicing on current and late model Suunto Diving Computers.
The quirky underwater concert takes place at Looe Key Reef, an area of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary approximately six miles south of Big Pine Key. Each year, the subsea songfest draws as many as 600 divers and snorkelers to explore the colorful diversity of marine life that characterizes continental America’s only living coral barrier reef.
Don’t miss out on the events this June that celebrate Divi Flamingo’s 60th year in hospitality in Bonaire!
SCUBA DIVING Editor David Espinosa just returned from a live-aboard trip to the Galapagos. Here's his Day 6 blog post detailing encounters with sharks, sea lions and more at Roca Redonda.
Top Five Things I Learned at the Backscatter Digital Shootout
Sure, there might be other dive gear deemed more important to basic survival (a reg) or your general well-being (a dive computer) than a BC. But when it comes to being able to comfortably acclimate to being underwater — to the point where you feel like a resident rather than a clumsy topside tourist — the BC is the most important component of your kit.
Follow these 8 tips to keep your BC in good working order and ready for your next dive.
Subgear’s new Apnea 1 five-mil is a unique wetsuit designed specifically for free diving. It comes with a nylon-lined interior so it’s comfortable against the skin plus easy to climb in and out of. However, its exterior surface is slick to repel water.
Seasoft’s frameless Visionmaster Super Mask features lenses made of H-G-G glass with Crystal ARC anti-reflective coatings that virtually eliminate glare. HGG glass and Crystal ARC coatings are found on the optics of leading riflescopes and camera lenses and allow up to 20% more light to reach your eyes.
The T-120 Mini torch may be small in size, but it delivers quite a punch when it comes to illumination.
Nauticam’s anodized aluminum housing for the Sony NEX-7 camera supports all camera controls, each one ergonomically placed for comfortable shooting. The housing takes advantage of the unique NEX-7 three-dial interface to give the user direct access to ALL THREE manual exposure settings.
Scuba Diving Photo Editor reports from the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort
Scuba Diving Photo Editor heads to the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort
As if the dive weren't challenge enough, try taking memorable images while you're at it.
Feeling marching ants crawling under the skin of my thighs at 60 feet during decompression, it was clear to me that I was bent.
Danny was having one of the greatest days of his short dive career. Conditions were perfect. Visibility seemed to go on forever. Until the grouper he had just speared knocked his regulator out of his mouth and his mask askew. Suddenly, he was in trouble.
CPR and life support aren't included in basic scuba training — is just learning to dive enough of a challenge for beginners?
Stake a claim on the last unknown frontier: It lies just beneath our feet.
Conservation agencies say no, so why do so many divers do it anyway?
Perhaps nothing ruins a dive trip more quickly than an urgent need to “feed the fish” from the railing. Thus, most divers try very diligently to avoid getting motion sickness – but how? What really works?
It’s the bane of all divers. We want to go down, but the inherent buoyancy in our wetsuits, our BCs, our lungs and our fat cells are all conspiring to keep that from happening. Here's how to determine how much weight you will need...
A diver ignoring a nagging pain in her shoulder and neck spends some time in the chamber. What lessons can you learn from this dive accident?
From sleeping sharks to the deepest dives these outrageous dive stories aren't just entertaining. These true stories are sure to leave you curious about the outrageous people behind them!
From buying new dive equipment to taking care of what you already own, these simple tips will help you get the most out of your money.
Got a great underwater image? Here's how to get it noticed by photo editors and make money from your hard work.
CO testing is recommended, not mandatory, and poisonings are not recorded — but is there really cause for alarm?
In a classic case, panic, claustrophobia and poor decision-making lead to a dive fatality.
Simplify, organize and have fun! Here are six tips to make your day on a dive boat a success.
A modern regulator is an extremely reliable mechanism. So reliable, in fact, that some divers will take their regs on countless dives and never so much as rinse them off. Yet they keep on delivering air year after year.
Over Memorial Day weekend, the 217-foot Lulu will be scuttled in the Gulf of Mexico off Orange Beach
From sharks to sailfish, wrecks, divers and beyond, our readers have submitted some incredible images for our 2013 Scuba Diving Photo Contest. While they're not our winners just yet, here's a gallery of our favorite black and white images ... so far. (Captions provided by photographers.)
The East Coast of Florida is a playground of artificial reefs for diving, sunken ships that are hotspots for advanced divers.
Invasive Lionfish are a threat to much of what we love underwater in the Caribbean and Atlantic, but they're probably also here to stay. Learn about their habits, why they are such a problem, and even a few tasty ways to dispose of them.
From Bonaire to North Carolina and every dive site along the way, our readers have submitted some incredible images for our 2013 Scuba Diving Photo Contest. While they're not our winners just yet, here are 10 of our favorite shark images ... so far.
The ScubaLab 2013 testing season is in full swing. Our latest category: Buoyancy Compensators.
Check out these five new fins, regs, computers and more for your next technical dive.
Hammered by Norse gods of old, Iceland's mirror lakes conceal a spreading rift below, a molten gash that cuts to the very center of the Earth.
These human-assisted habitats act like defibrillation paddles, revving up struggling reefs and reviving declining fish populations from Florida to Indonesia and beyond.
Stake a claim on the last unknown frontier: It lies just beneath our feet.
Blackbeard's Cruises offers live-aboard scuba diving travel vacations to the Bahamas Out Islands. Three sailboats — Sea Explorer, Morning Star and Pirate's Lady — take guests for a week of diving on various itineraries in the Exumas, Southwest Eleuthera, Little San Salvador and Bimini.
Sharks, fascinating reefs and endless-blue-sea adventures await you in the Bahamas when you book a trip on this luxury live-aboard catamaran!
It's time for the latest exhibit by Austrian photographer and scuba diver Andreas Franke to move on — you can help break down this underwater exhibit and party with your fellow dive volunteers in Barbados — here's how.
Photographer and surveyor Jonathan Lavan was recognized this spring as the REEF 2012 Volunteer of the Year for his work surveying fish and teaching REEF’s online webinars, called fishinars.
For thousands of years sea monsters have appeared on maps as both warnings to travelers and as decorations. Chet Van Duzer explores these monsters in his new book Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps and gives readers a better understanding of their place and purpose in history.
IST’s Flexus jumpsuits are available in three thicknesses—3 mil, 5 mil, and 7 mil—to provide dependable thermal protection in both temperate and tropical waters. The 5 and 7 mil suits are triple glued and double blind-stitched, with the 7 mil offering zippers on the ankles to aid in getting in and out of the suit.
Ikelite has packed more than 35 years of strobe design into the new Manta substrobe. Featuring proprietary Pre-Flash Recognition Technology, Manta has the unique ability to automatically adjust to any pre-flash sequence — a feature that’s sure to attract first-time strobe users and impress the pros.
The Beta semi-dry snorkel from Cressi has a large-bore tube that allows lots of airflow while you’re enjoying the scenery just below the surface. The profiled splash guard deflects water away from the top of the tube when swimming in choppy seas; water that does manage to find its way in is easily expelled through the lower purge valve.
Atomic Aquatics’ new signature regulator, the high performance T- 3, features new ultra light component parts. The balanced piston first stage is precision machined from solid titanium billet, and its yoke is made using the least amount of material possible.
Ever since I first saw a photo of a longhorn blenny, the rare little Caribbean fish with cirri like a pair of telephone communication towers has been on my wish list of must-see animals.
SCUBAPRO'S Mark 17 balanced diaphragm first stage is designed for harsh environments and cold water. The pneumatically balanced G-2-60 second stage is made with metal components in the inlet tube, orifice, inhalation control knob and hose connector to optimize cold-water performance. It is quipped with both a VIVA switch and inhalation control knob, and the left-right hose attachment makes it easy to rig for tech diving.
The MP206 Chameleon mask from IST Sports is made from a liquid-injected, hypoallergenic silicone that is soft and supple, resulting in a skirt that offers comfort as well as a watertight fit. Its raked inverted-teardrop dual-lens design delivers a wide field of view. To enhance the underwater view, the mask is fitted with a new type of ultra clear lens that allows for increased light transmission.
Professional photographers will appreciate the even coverage and superior quality of light that can only be produced with a round flash tube and custom made power-coated reflector. The DS161 Lithium is the first underwater strobe with a built-in LED video light and Lithium Ion battery technology. When combined with a compatible TTL system, the strobe automatically adjusts brightness to provide perfect exposure when shooting macro, portrait or wide angle.
Cressi’s R1 jacket-style BC is comfortable and easy to use. It features padding in the back and lumbar areas as well as underneath the shoulders, and the air cell slides on the cummerbund, eliminating body squeeze. The rigid backpack delivers a stable ride, and the Lock Aid integrated weight system loads and ditches easily. Available in five sizes with buoyant lift up to 36 pounds
Offering a packing volume of 145 liters, Cressi’s Cargo combines a hard case with a roomy dive bag made of durable 420 denier material. The main compartment comes with compression straps, and there’s an additional compartment on top for stowing smaller items. It will handle all the gear necessary for an extended dive vacation plus is built tough to withstand the rigors of life on the road.
Voted the #1 Dive Resort in the World by Scuba Diving Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards 2013, Buddy Dive Resort Bonaire is the place for your next dive vacation! With friendly and professional Divemasters and Instructors, a fleet of five comfortable dive boats, fully equipped rental trucks and unlimited air or Nitrox -‐ Buddy Dive makes it easy to explore more than 86 award-‐winning dive sites reachable by shore or boat in Bonaire & Klein Bonaire.
SCUBAPRO’s Cabin Bag is made of smooth-finish Tarpaulin, a durable PVC material. The bag offers a large main compartment, plus a mesh pouch on the inside of the lid and a large zippered sleeve on the outside of the lid. There are padded lift handles on top and on one side, and the telescoping tow handle locks into position for both pushing and pulling.
The Cube Red Filter by Polar Pro is a super-sleek snap-on filter designed for the GoPro Hero 3 camera that instantly improves underwater video colors when shot in tropical waters by correcting for the GoPro’s white balance.
Nauticam’s experience building professional-grade aluminum housings for the compact digital camera market shows with its NAS110.
IST’s MP204 Spear mask, with its low-volume dual-lens design, provides an expansive view of the underwater world.
Experience all the best aspects of Bahamas Diving with Small Hope Bay Lodge’s ALL INCLUSIVE diving package! Explore the Andros Barrier Reef, the third largest barrier reef in the world, and enjoy some of the most diverse diving on the planet. Whatever your experience level, whatever your desires, we have it all - caverns, walls, blue holes, wrecks and exciting Bahamas shark diving.This ALL INCLUSIVE Scuba Diving Package at Small Hope includes:
Buddy Dive Resort, Still home of the most complete Drive & Dive package. Inclued: Transfers & taxes, unlimited air or Nitrox, pick-up truck, daily buffet breakfast, accommodations, 6 X’s 1 tank boat dives From $776 pp/per week (based on 6pax/3 bedrm. apt.) 2nd Diver Dives for Free when booking our Drive & Dive Package with unlimited shore diving PLUS 6 one-tank boat dives! Valid from: Aug. 17th-Sept. 29th & Nov. 30th – Dec. 20th 2013
Escape to our beautiful Caribbean Paradise, and experience our valet dive service. Barefoot Cay is a luxury boutique resort on the south shore of Roatan. Take advantage of our great fall special: just $1,190 per person, based on double occupancy in a studio loft or quadruple occupancy in a loft suite, or $1,240 per person in a master bedroom, based on doublé occupancy.
Located only short flight from most west coast, Los Cabos offers convenient dive getaway Mexican style.
Go Pro this Summer 2013 with Utila Dive Center!At the Utila Dive Center, a PADI Career Development Center in the Caribbean Bay Islands we have an amazing promotion running this summer if you’ve ever considered becoming a PADI instructor. We have some great offers on our Instructor courses for this July to September 2013;
Includes: 7 nights deluxe oceanview accommodations, 6 days of 1-tank boat dives and unlimited shore diving, roundtrip aiport transfers, hotel tax, and service charges. Valid through 5/4/13, 6/1/13-6/29/13 and 8/31/13-10/5/13.
Includes: 7 nights deluxe gardenview accommodations, 5 days of 2-tank boat dives, unlimited shore diving, all meals, snacks and beverages, resort activities, up to $200 in resort coupons per room to use on applicable items as stated by hotel, roundtrip airport transfers, hotel taxes, and service charges.
Includes: 7 nights accommodations, 5 days of 2-tank boat dives, daily breakfast, roundtrip airport transfers, hotel tax, and service charges.Valid through 12/14/13.
Pay for 5 Nights get the 6th & 7th Night FREEPay for 5 Days of Shore Diving get the 6th Day FREE SAMPLE SELLABRATION PACKAGES: Ride to the Reef packages from $551.00 per diver/$401.00 per vacationer based on four people sharing a two-bedroom/two-bath condominium.
Discover a paradise where diving is great all year round, the waters are warm and the fish are aplenty. Tufi Resort is every diving enthusiasts dream location, offering everything from dramatic reef diving to historical wreck diving. Dive the fjords or outer reefs and see one of Tufi’s world-class dive sites.
Take advantage of some great diving adventures this summertime for the family. With warm clear waters, colorful shallow reefs and an award winning staff all set in an idilic resort on the NW tip of Grand Cayman, you'll have a great family adventure! Options are available for kids age 8 and up to kern about he marine environment, or continue the adventure for kids and teens already certified. New bookings only. Blackout dates: July 2013. Kids 12 and under stay free. Kids 12-17 qualify for the 25% off diving reward.
The Stella Maris Resort: Stella Maris Watersports offers a new dive package. The Plantation Package Includes: 5 or 7 nights accommodation at the renowned Stella Maris Resort; 2 tanks per day (8 or 12 dives); Return Air Transfers, Nassau-Long Island or George Town-Long Island; 3 meals per day 3 drinks per day (excluding bottled wine and champagne) House wine with dinner; Taxi Transfers Airport, Stella Maris Resort, Airport; includes all government taxes and service charges'
Located only short flight from most west coast, Los Cabos offers convenient dive getaway Mexican style. Most dive sites are located only short boat ride from the marina of Cabo San Lucas and the restaurant and night life Cabo San Lucas have are perfect for a short vacation.Package includes:3 night's accommodation in a DLX City view room, breakfast and internet access.2 days of 2 tank diving at the Cabo San Lucas marine park and at the Corridor, with PADI professional guides.
Dive Trip Liveaboard Special aboard the R/V Sea Dragon, 9 days of diving, 10 nights, 4 dives per day + night dive, all meals, 8 guests in 4 double Cabins. Boarding on San Salvador island traveling to Great Exuma - includes diving at San Salvador, Conception island and Long Island.
Our 2013 season is almost sold out*!Just 3 cabins in July available, otherwise we’re fully booked until next year.That’s a great excuse to book a last minute trip this summer ... or start planning your 2014/2015 dive calendar! MORE ON OUR 7 JULY 2013 CRUISEThis trip is an incredible ‘2 for the price of 1’ itinerary, visiting both of the West Nusa Tengara destinations; KOMODO and ALOR!Trip departs Labuanbajo on 7 July 2013 for 13 nights, ending 20 July in Maumere.
Over Memorial Day weekend, the 217-foot Lulu will be scuttled in the Gulf of Mexico off Orange Beach
From sharks to sailfish, wrecks, divers and beyond, our readers have submitted some incredible images for our 2013 Scuba Diving Photo Contest. While they're not our winners just yet, here's a gallery of our favorite black and white images ... so far. (Captions provided by photographers.)
The East Coast of Florida is a playground of artificial reefs for diving, sunken ships that are hotspots for advanced divers.
Aboard Tonga's Nai'a divers quickly learn: When the watch cries “Whales!” and the ship’s bell rings — no matter what you’re doing — grab a camera and run to the bow, because something is about to happen.
From Bonaire to North Carolina and every dive site along the way, our readers have submitted some incredible images for our 2013 Scuba Diving Photo Contest. While they're not our winners just yet, here are 10 of our favorite shark images ... so far.
The ScubaLab 2013 testing season is in full swing. Our latest category: Buoyancy Compensators.
Check out these five new fins, regs, computers and more for your next technical dive.
These human-assisted habitats act like defibrillation paddles, revving up struggling reefs and reviving declining fish populations from Florida to Indonesia and beyond.
The Living Oceans Foundation's Global Reef Expedition aims to discover how coral reefs across the world are faring in today’s changing ocean climate, and what can be done to help corals survive in the warmer, more acidic oceans of the future.
The University of Toledo dive team made waves this month when the last member of their team left the 330-gallon “pool” in their Student Union to celebrate as new Guinness World Record holders for the "Longest Continual Dive By a Group of Divers in a Contained Environment."
Photographer and surveyor Jonathan Lavan was recognized this spring as the REEF 2012 Volunteer of the Year for his work surveying fish and teaching REEF’s online webinars, called fishinars.
Getting mantas protected under CITES was a historic milestone for manta conservation, but Project AWARE isn't stopping there. Check out Project AWARE’s infographic, Manta and Devil Rays at Risk, learn more and find out what you can do to help.
A local expert ranks the best shipwrecks for scuba divers in the Tarheel State
For thousands of years sea monsters have appeared on maps as both warnings to travelers and as decorations. Chet Van Duzer explores these monsters in his new book Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps and gives readers a better understanding of their place and purpose in history.
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