Archive for May, 2009

The Five Rules for Safe Cave Diving

Cave diving has been taking place since the 1960s, and unfortunately, there were some accidents. But, after reviewing many of the accidents, cave diving instructors and explorers, like Sheck Exley, determined that many of the accidents had resulted from the same mistakes. As a result, the following five rules for safe cave diving were developed.
Proper [...]

Making a Difference - Working to Save the Coral Reefs!

Making a Difference - Working to Save the Coral Reefs!
Ken Nedimyer and The Coral Restoration Foundation are working to restore coral reefs. Ken Nedimyer started an innovative nursery transplantation program in the Florida Keys. The whole program is based on volunteers.

Nursery

Molassas St Horn

Replanting the local reefs with nursery grown corals was started based on Ken’s [...]

Underwater Photo Photography

It’s fair to claim people share one common motivation for becoming certified scuba divers: The underwater world is full of amazing things to see. Living tropical coral reefs, shipwrecks laden with historical artifacts, and caverns with ancient geological formations offer unique and exciting visual experiences to those choosing to explore them as divers.
Underwater Photo Photography
Still [...]

Technical Diving

This section is geared toward technical diving, but can provide useful information to every diver. Information and articels about nitrox, mixed gasses, decompression, technical training, deep diving, how to, etc. are just a few of the many topics that can be found in this section
Here are the sections of our Technical Diving Page:
Nitrox Diving
Mixed Gas Diving
Deep Diving
Decompression Diving
Technical [...]

Cave Diving

A cave dive is considered any dive that takes place under a naturally occurring rock ceiling. Cave diving has been considered one of the most extreme and hazardous forms of diving, but it doesn’t have to be if you get proper training and follow the rules. There are two forms of cave diving: cavern diving [...]

Wreck Diving

Scuba diving on shipwrecks has been around since people started diving beneath the sea. Shipwrecks offer a certain amount of mystery and lure and are invariably equated to sunken treasure. Diving on a sunken ship brings questions like: Where did the wreck come from? Did the people parish when this ship sank? What caused the [...]

Scuba Diving Careers

Have you ever dreamed of turning your passion, your hobby into a career? Well, with diving, that is a real possibility. When you’re at your local dive shop or on a dive vacation, do you dream of being that person behind the counter or on the boat? Have you thought about getting involved in diving [...]