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Avoid These 3 Common Scuba Diving Mistakes as a New Diver
Avoid These 3 Common Scuba Diving Mistakes as a New Diver As a new scuba diver, it’s essential to learn how to avoid common scuba diving mistakes that can compromise your safety and enjoyment of the sport. Here are three of the most common mistakes new scuba divers make and how to avoid them. Please read the complete article on our blog, Avoid These 3 Common Scuba Diving Mistakes as a New Diver....
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2023 Upper Midwest Scuba & Adventure Travel Show
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society Presents Its 23rd Annual Fundraiser: “Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show” (UMSAT) combines professional divers, shipwreck hunters, educators, and underwater photographers, videographers, and archaeologists in a fascinating day of unbelievable history and grand storytelling about shipwrecks in the Upper Great Lakes. Besides the lineup of fantastic speakers, at the 3D Shipwrecks booth, you can wear VR (virtual reality) or Oculus glasses to ...
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Upper Midwest Scuba & Adventure Travel Show
Looking for an amazing day full of adventure? The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society Presents Its 22nd Annual Fundraiser: “Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show” (UMSAT) combines professional divers, shipwreck hunters, educators, and underwater photographers, videographers, and archaeologists in a fascinating day of unbelievable history and grand storytelling. A unique panel of guests will regale attendees with tales about shipwrecks in the Upper Great Lakes. The event will have ...
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Enter the circus of the amazing clownfish
The Clown fish is an Anemone fish, a specialized type of damselfish. The first magic trick that the clownfish is able to perform is its venom immunity: they have a special symbiosis relationship with their host anemone. Together, they realize, for your greatest pleasure, what is called a “symbiosis relationship”. Since the eggs are laid directly under its skirt, anemone fishes are immune to anemone’s stingy tentacles from day 1. It is a mutually beneficial relationship in which the anemone can ...
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How to Become a Dive Instructor
Teach SCUBA Diving around the World!Follow your dream and become a dive instructor. Being certified as a dive instructor can be your ticket to travel and work around the world. Teach people how to SCUBA dive, share your passion through education while living in a place where people go on holidays. Office days will never be the same. How to Become a Dive Instructor...
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How to become a Divemaster
From Passion to Profession in SCUBA Diving Do you love SCUBA diving so much that you want to take it to a professional level? Are you dreaming of finishing your studies or quitting your job to buy a ticket to the tropics and become a divemaster? Maybe are you thinking of becoming a divemaster in your own country or maybe you just want another challenge when it comes to diving. Read all about the process to become a divemaster. Read it here...
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2021 Virtual Upper Midwest Scuba Adventure Travel Show
Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show 2021 Virtual Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show The tickets are available now!! umsatshow.org/tickets/ The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society Presents Its 21st Annual Fundraiser: The “Virtual” UMSAT Show on April 8, 9, and 10th! Please join us for this year’s event. There will be four great speakers presenting at our Zoom webinar: Thursday, April 8, 2021, at 7:00 PM – Doug Klein – Diving Locations in Minnesota Friday, April 9, 2021...
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What Influenced You to Get Certified
Who/What influenced you to become a certified scuba diver? US Dive Shows and Shearwater Research are asking divers what got them started. Answer a quick survey. survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07eh6ewij2kc3lifmu/start...
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Free Online Dive Education
Staying at home due to COVID-19? bit.ly/34tu7GU Spend your time useful and learn more about SCUBA diving, marine biology and marine life species from home. We have listed awesome courses, videos and training materials for you to download. From hilarious marine life videos to very serious ecology classes - Pick your favorite. Stay home, stay safe!...
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DC Dive Show Workshop Updates
The DC Dive Show has a number of seminars and workshops planned in conjunction with dive club meetings, live music, exhibitors from around the world. The two-day mid-winter festival is a great way to expand your knowledge about diving and the environment at the same time book your next vacation. Workshops: Rebreather 101 a beginners guide taught by Jill Heinerth Diving Medicine with a thorough review of your ears and first aid for incidents you may encounter in remote areas. Citizen Science Work...
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Get Divers to Pick Up Trash Underwater Using #IsThisYours
An unfortunate fact that we’ve known for so long is that our oceans are struggling. Worldwide fish stocks are dwindling in numbers; microplastics are found in shellfish, there’s a Great Pacific Garbage Patch three times the size of France, and the rising seawater temperatures are disturbing major aquatic systems. Changes to the environment are also changing our waters, and these changes aren’t at all good. In an attempt to hold people accountable for the trash they produce, a social media campai...
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2018 Market Share of Scuba Certification Agencies (PADI, SSI, NAUI)
Greg - 12/22/2018 10:44 AM
According to the certifications added by scuba divers on DiveBuddy.com, the following list indicates the percentage market share by each certification agency. Only the unique certification agencies were counted for each diver. For example, if a diver listed 3 different certifications with PADI and 1 for DAN, the list below includes 1 for PADI and 1 for DAN. All types of certifications were included (entry, advanced, tech, recreational). Link to larger graph Sample size: 3747 unique scuba divers ...
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Whale Shark Diving Etiquette
Whale Shark Diving Etiquette- Ningaloo Reef, Isla Holbox, Gladden Split, Kwatisore Bay, Darwin’s Arch, Simon’s Town, Sun Island, Kilindini Harbor, Donsol Bay, Utila Open Water, 1. Don’t be a pig. Get in the water quickly, but once you’ve swum with him for a few minutes, back off to let the other divers see him from up front. 2. Never grab a tail or ride off their middle fin. They are God’s creatures too, not mopeds. 3. Limit your expectations. Many people have expectations that are way too high,...
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Halibut Hunting: California Seminar
Spotlight Local California: RAW HALIBUT By H2OMAN ...First published in Spearfishing Magazine Trophies can be hunted and trophies can be married. Most divers who are underwater hunters have the problem that the trophies we are blessed enough to land on land and beneath the sea seem to get into shoving matches back home around the mantel. I got that suffocating feeling again (like you need to come up for air) when she looked up at me. She sat on the couch doing her nails. No matter how hard I scr...
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Pig looking ships
PRESS RELEASE They were called pigboats not because they carried pigs. Dr. Daley is an expert on Whaleback ships built in Superior Wisconsin from 1888 to 1898. 43 were constructed; some were unpowered barges while others were independent steam-powered vessels. They were called pigboats because they had a distinctive pig-like bow. Come and listen to Dr. Matthew Daley talk about -In the Wake of Disaster: The story of the James B. Colgate, the Merida, and Lake Erie’s Black Friday Storm of 1916 at t...
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Why Should you PAY for your Internship?
When it comes down to that moment when you are looking for the best Divemaster Internship and they ask you to shell out a bunch of money...and you are wondering...WHY??? Why Should You PAY for your Divemaster Internship? Take our Divemaster Internship is a Life Changing Experience, not only because you will be scuba diving everyday but also because you will be trained to be responsible for the safety of the people that dives with you, getting in touch with happy, active people from all over the ...
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Search PADI & SSI Dive Instructor Courses
Compare PADI Instructor Development Courses (IDCs) and SSI Instructor Trainer Courses (ITCs). Are you thinking about becoming a dive instructor? Wondering where to do this course and with who? We have created a brand new search engine for you to compare dive instructor courses from around the world. Find the best teachers, dive centers and package offers for your needs! Click here to search dive instructor courses! Are you offering PADI IDCs or SSI ITCs? Create an account on diveoclock.com/pro/ ...
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Hollis Prism 2 course
If anybody is interested in the Hollis Prism 2 course, here is the email address listed below. Now until the end of the year, we offer a Hollis Prism 2 course at half price. I am willing to travel with the unit if purchased from us and teach the course anyplace that can support a rebreather (e.g. 100% O2 and CO2 absorbent available ). Since this is our 5th year in operation, we will offer a 50% discount on the course fees. Any boat, park, and consumables are the responsibility of the student for...
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Loss of equipment due to poor planning.
On a recent forensic dive in the Jordan river near Salt Lake City I lost a couple pieces of equipment (My fins specifically) because I failed to understand conditions and plan accordingly. The dive was to look for a firearm used in a recent shooting. We were given the conditions of the water and possible depths of the river (from knee deep to holes as deep as 15’) Being the first one in the water I discovered that using fins was going to be pointless. The deepest point in our search area was onl...
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