Graham Casden is the Executive officer from Ocean First Divers in Colorado. He was first certified in Belize in 1999 and became a DM in 2003 and OWSI in March 2005.

If you thinking diving is not very popular in Colorado, think again.  As Graham told me, “There are more certified divers per capita in Colorado than any other state.”

Graham graciously agreed to be a photographer for DivingInDepth.com and spent time with us on a short interview.

Contact: www.oceanfirstdivers.com

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Sandals - Photo from Flickr - Heather 0714

The Bahamas are an archipelago, situated towards the west of the Central Atlantic, north of Cuba and comprise of over 700 islands and and are a combination of the rich Atlantic marine life and the best surroundings of the Caribbean. Bahamas holds an important place as the world’s top five diving sites, as the vertical walls and reefs covered with abundant corals and sponges, along with a lot of wrecks and blue holes, offer great visibility to some of the most spectacular, plentiful marine life.

It is possible for the Bahamas to offer such a great diving experience, because of its natural geographical formation. Most of the Bahamas are covered by the “Bahamas Banks” Plateaus and about 20 pinnacles that Bahamas is formed of ensure that most of the Bahamas has shallow water, divided by a lot of deep ocean trenches. Over time the lime stones in the Bahamas eroded considerably, which triggered the collapse of the underwater caverns thus naturally forming plenty of blue holes. Bahamas contains the largest number of blue holes in the whole world in the Grand Bahamas and the Cal Say Bank thus able to offer diving experiences that can be never matched by any other diving site of the world.

The diverse diving opportunity that Bahamas offers entices divers from all over the world and invites them again and again. Sharks, Manta Rays, Stringrays, Dolphins, Whale Sharks, and sometimes Pilot Whales are often sighted throughout the Bahamas range. The Grand Bahamas, Barry Island, Cay Sal, Andros, New Providence and Bimini are some of the great locations in the Bahamas that offer exhilarating diving experiences.

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DivingingInDepth’s Monthly Newsletter - Diving In!!

What’s new!

Recent feedback for our readers has been that our posts of underwater photographers and their work are overwhelming favorites. With this in mind, we have approached two photographers to see if they can share their work!  Graham Casden of Ocean First Divers and Chris Kovaz of Divers Only have both provided us with recent photographs of their undersea journeys! Chris comes back for the second time.

Interview and Photos from Graham Casden:

http://divingindepth.com/interview-graham-casden

http://divingindepth.com/graham-casden/

Interview and Photos from Chris Kovaz:

http://divingindepth.com/interview-chris-kovaz/

http://divingindepth.com/chris-kovaz-february-2010/

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DivingInDepth.com has gathered, over the years, material that has been archived on the site . To make the information more available online, we now have a number of sites:

- http://worlddiving.info - A guide to the world’s best diving destinations

- http://wreckdiveguide.com - a guide to wrecks, particularly on the East Coast and Great Lakes of the United States

- http://divinggearguide.com - a guide to diving gear for the recreational and professional divers

- http://floridadiving.info - A guide to Florida’s caves and springs - Florida offers a world class cave diving destination

- http://OceanFish.info - a guide to ocean fish

- You can visit our new shopping site at: http://www.scubaselection.com

Chris Kovaz  is currently Digital Media Director for DiversOnly.com. You can hear him weekly on Divers Only Radio.  He is an active diving photographer whose photos first appeared on DivingInDepth’s website several years back. He graciously agreed to appear on our site again and do an interview!

Most recent photos at DivingInDepth.com:

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Chris, is a diving prodigy from Florida, but has traveled extensively all over the world. His love of underwater photography gradually developed after his father, Blaise, helped get him certified as a diver at the age of 12.  After receiving a 2-mega-pixel camera and an Ikelite housing from Blaise, his career had finally begun. He became much more accomplished after completing his first class with Stephen Frink in 2005. After the improvements made in that short week, Chris knew photography was his future.  Chris currently shoots a Canon 1Ds MarkII with a Sea Cam housing. Chris has been diving in extravagant places such as, Belize, the Bahamas, Utila, Roatan, the Galapagos, Fiji, and the Florida Keys.
Question: How long have you been involved in diving?
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Graham Casden is the Executive officer from Ocean First Divers in Boulder, Colorado. He was first certified in Belize in 1999 and became a DM in 2003 and OWSI in March 2005.

If you thinking diving is not very popular in Colorado, think again. As Graham told me, “There are more certified divers per capita in Colorado than any other state.”

Graham also graciously agreed to be a photographer for DivingInDepth.com. To see his pictures you can go here:

www.divingindepth.com/graham-casden/

Question: What diving activities are you curently most excited about?

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DivingInDepth.com last displayed Chris Kovaz’s work several years ago. Chris has graciously supplied more of his photographs for display.

Chris, is currently Digital Media Director for DiversOnly.com. You can hear him weekly on Divers Only Radio.  He is an active diving photographer whose photos first appeared on DivingInDepth’s website several years back. He graciously agreed to appear on our site again!

Chris has been diving 15 years, since the age of eleven. His certifications in rescue diving, nitrox, wreck diving and underwater photography.  His diving mask is custom and is fitted with prescription lenses.

His equipment:  a Canon 1DS Mark II with a Sea Cam housing. He  uses Ikelite 150 and ion z240 strobes.

Next trip: Chris is going to Soccoro  islands in January of 2011.

Contact:

email Chris chrisk@diversonly.com.

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DivingingInDepth’s Monthly Newsletter - Diving In!!

Whats new!

DivingInDepth.com has gathered, over the years, material that has been archived on the site. To make the information more available online, our site has launched five new sites to focus on our varied material:

- http://worlddiving.info - A guide to the world’s best diving destinations
- http://wreckdiveguide.com - a guide to wrecks, particularly on the East Coast and Great Lakes of the United States
- http://divinggearguide.com - a guide to diving gear for the recreational and professional divers
- http://floridadiving.info - A guide to Florida’s caves and springs - Florida offers a world class cave diving destination
- http://OceanFish.info -  a guide to ocean fish

Also …

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Review by Robert Groth

For an avid diver, this book is a must read. Tony Liddicoat has been diving for over 44 years, and, as one of the book’s typists commented, “I don’t know how you’re still alive.” Tony pursued commercial, military, and recreational diving and his diving career has taken him all over the world. In 1981 he was named British “Diver of the Year”. The book includes chapters devoted to his time diving as a wreck excavator in Kenya, his military assignments in Germany and the Falkland Islands, as an Army diving instructor in Belize, and commercial and recreational diving throughout Europe. I particularly enjoyed the wealth of pictures he has in his book, like the picture of He and Jacques Cousteau talking aboard the Calypso, the pictures of his time excavating wrecks in Mombasa Kenya, or his cover photo of him on Soldier Magazine in November of 1988.

Picture of the recovery of a Wessex Mark V helicopter which sank off Portland Bill, UK in 1974

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Tony Liddicoat has been diving for over 44 years, and has recently published a book of his career entitled “Five Bells” Job Done.  One of the book’s typists commented, “I don’t know how you’re still alive.”

Tony pursued commercial, military, and recreational diving and his diving career has taken him all over the world. In 1981 he was named British “Diver of the Year”. The pictures below cover his time diving as a wreck excavator in Kenya, his military assignments in Germany and the Falkland Islands, as an Army diving instructor in Belize, and his commercial and recreational diving throughout Europe.

Visit his website at www.tonyliddicoat.com

You can read about his new book by clicking here.

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We have moved our discussion of gear and featured products to DivingGearGuides’s featured products and manufacturers showcase. Each of the manufacturers, along with some of their products, that we’ve featured so far are listed on the left in Featured Manufacturers. Each month we feature different products and equipment manufacturers.

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Africa being a large continent, it offers all kinds of diving experiences to right from the novice divers to the most experienced scuba divers.

Apart from the Red Sea, which offers diving experiences unique to it, most of the diving experiences that Africa offers are in the warmer waters of the Indian Ocean which lies in the east coast of Africa. African countries such as Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and Madagascar are all rich in diving experiences. Cape Town, which is the tip of the African Continent, offers good diving experience because of the combination of the Indian Ocean currents and the currents of the Atlantic.

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