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Tiger Shark / Hammerhead Shark Expedition

Date: September 25 to October 1,2010
Where: Tiger Beach, Bahamas
Join Steven “Creech” Anderson and Jim Abernethy for a Tiger Shark Trip to Tiger Beach and the outer reefs along the Little Bahamas Banks. The cost of the trip is 2805.00 USD and includes diving for Tiger, Great Hammerhead, Lemon and Caribbean Reef Sharks for 5 [...]

A Week at the Beach

Story and Photos by Steven Anderson

There are over 700 islands and Cays, which make up the Bahamas.
We traveled from West Palm Beach by boat through the warm and crystal clear waters of the Gulf Stream with none of those islands or cays in sight. By daybreak we cleared customs in the Bahamas and our Tiger [...]

“Five Bells” Job Done by Tony Liddicoat

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. [...]

Featured Manufacturers and Products Showcase

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.

Scuba Diving in Africa - Top Five Destinations

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 [...]

European Sea Floor Observatory Network (ESONET)

Looking to be completed by 2011, the European Sea Floor Observatory Network (ESONET) is being developed by international research institutions who are collaboratively spending roughly 300 million dollars to build it. There are 11 primary European partners listed in the main document (http://www.oceanlab.abdn.ac.uk/esonet/ESONET_fullrep.pdf).

Scuba Diving in the Bahamas - Bimini, Grand Bahamas, and San Salvador

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 [...]

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 [...]