ScubaGadget - The Deep Background on Scuba

I’d like to share with you a little story…. It was almost two years ago when I began SCUBA diving. After my Open Water certification I was hooked! I became obsessed with the sport and as that obsession grew, so did my love and appreciation for the environment that so kindly embraced me. I grew [...]

Even if you are an avid NatGeo nerd, you will still find plenty of remarkable facts you did not know about the GPO (giant Pacific octopus) in the new book Super Suckers The Giant Pacific Octopus and Other Cephalopods of the Pacific Coast by James A. Cosgrove & Neil McDaniel. The first lesson the book offered [...]

The new “Swim With Gentle Giants” program at the Georgia Aquarium which allows swimmers and divers to enter the tank with the whale sharks is being criticized by some marine experts. The LA Times reported that Jean-Michel Cousteau and George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural [...]

  Is this too good to be true? A luxury dive resort AND green, sustainable  policies? Divers looking for a luxury dive vacation, look no further than the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Resort. Called “the epitome of every tropical paradise fantasy you ever had” by British Elle Magazine, the resort is reached by a 30 [...]

As many divers are aware, our impact, along with pollution, poor fishing practices, toxic waste, and other environmental issues can have an adverse affect on the ocean. Thankfully, there is a growing number of travel agencies and vendors who are choosing to “go green.” While this may be a welcome change to those of us [...]

Seventy-two Austrailian divers went down under in St Leonards’ to break the world record for the most divers ironing underwater. Each diver carried an iron, a board and an item of clothing to iron during the unusual underwater event. The event also raised $865 for Project AWARE a non-profit underwater conservation organisation dedicated to protecting [...]

Kamakshi Gupta of Xpress  reports that the construction boom is threatening the existence of dive sites in Dubai. He quotes tour operator Stephanie Davies, owner of Scuba Dubai as saying, “there are barely any dive sites remaining off Dubai, and the ones that exist are far off the shore. “Dubai never had too many natural dive sites, but [...]

You can help make a difference by getting involved in one of the Central Caribbean Marine Institues research projects. The “Dive With A Researcher” (DWAR) program gives divers an opportunity to become more knowledgeable about coral reef conservation issues and efforts while helping collect and archive data during the dives. CCMI is a US and [...]