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Sunreef on Australia’s Sunshine Coast appoints Kai Steinbeck as Course Director
Dive Instructor Academy now offers PADI Instructor Development Courses in Port Douglas, Cairns and the Sunshine Coast. Sunreef, the award winning dive company operating from Mooloolaba on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, has joined forces with PADI Course Director Kai Steinbeck to bring PADI Instructor Development Courses and Instructor Exams to the Sunshine Coast. Not only will the PADI IDC program be conducted at Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast, but PADI has scheduled PADI Instructor Examinations ...
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Marine Conservation Based Travel
Pelagic Dive Travel is leading the way with marine conservation based scuba travel. Have you ever gone online and seen graphic posts of shark fins lined up on the ground or dead turtles stuck in drifting fishing nets? Horrible. Today the marine environment is getting decimated. Over 100 million sharks are being killed for what? Oil and fin…Tragic! But did you know there are marine conservation organisation & initiatives out there that are striving to make a difference? Chances are you don’t know...
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Upper Midwest Scuba & Adventure Travel Show
Press Release 2020 Fred Stonehouse: Sailing into Legend – the Most Baffling Shipwrecks(s) in the Great Lakes, and also World War II Vessels of the Great Lakes Fred Stonehouse - Has authored over thirty books on maritime history. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Haunted Lakes series are regional best sellers. Wreck Ashore, the U.S. Life Saving Service on the Great Lakes is the predominant work on the subject. He has also been an "on-air" expert for History Channel and National Geographic. F...
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2019 Upper Midwest Scuba & Adventure Travel Show
Share the Adventure at the 2019 Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show (UMSAT) Saturday, April 13, 2019 – 9:00AM to 6:00PM Jimmy’s Event Center, 3565 Labore Road, Vadnais Heights, MN 55110 Looking for an amazing day full of adventure? The 19th annual 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 storytell...
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DCDiveShow Lineup
DCDiveShow Theater Entertainment Line-up _ A Woman’s Voice February 23, 2019 DC Convention Center, Washington, DC Back in the 1970s, a diving catalog referred to scuba diving as “A Man’s World.” Not anymore. The Baltimore DC Dive Show (DCDiveShow.com) has gathered some of the world’s most prominent underwater adventurers, award winning photographers and film makers, shark ecologist and explorers. For the most part they reside within the mid-Atlantic region. All are women! “I couldn’t be more exc...
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Upper Midwest Scuba & Adventure Show
Share the Adventure at the 2018 Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show (UMSAT) Saturday, March 3, 2018 – 9:00AM to 6:00PM Double Tree by Hilton Bloomington –Minneapolis South 7800 Normandale Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55439 For Immediate Release: Looking for an amazing day full of adventure? The 18th annual Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show (UMSAT) combines professional divers, shipwreck hunters, educators, and underwater photographers, videographers, and archaeologists in a fascin...
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New Catamaran Dive Boat Launches in Carriacou
Deefer Diving Carriacou is proud to announce the launch of new dive catamaran Phoenix. Designed by divers for divers, much thought and years of diving experience have gone into the catamaran’s design, with the aim of creating a perfect platform for diving & snorkeling in the waters around Carriacou. Built in the South of Carriacou by experienced boat builder Ivan Jeffries, Phoenix can carry up to 16 divers and snorkellers to any of the over 30 dive sites around Carriacou. The generous deck space...
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World’s Deepest and Largest Indoor Pool Planned in the UK
californiadiver.com/worlds-deepest-and-largest-indoor...l-planned-in-the-uk/ World’s Deepest and Largest Indoor Pool Planned in the UK Currently, the world’s deepest swimming pool is the Y-40 in Italy which opened in 2014. At 131 feet deep (40 meters), it contains 1,136,000 gallons of water kept at a constant temperature of 90°F. Now a new pool being designed in England is taking it one step further – or 33 feet further to be exact. The new 50-meter deep (164 feet) Blue Abyss pool will be able t...
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3 different charter & dive on 1
I booked on a charter dive in West Palm Florida & they called to say "THEY OVER BOOKED" :-( They reverted me on a boat at the next marina "NO PROBLEM" They called that night to say there shaft & prop broke so they reverted me to a boat 4 slips down from there boat . " NO PROBLEM " .Same cost to me . The sea gods were on my side 1 Ft seas Vi’s OK . :-) CHECK OUT MY PHOTOS " scubadmike"...
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DiveBuddy.com to Break 2 Million Unique Users Soon
It took DiveBuddy.com around 7 years to achieve the 1 million unique user milestone. Now, after a little more than 2 years...we are about to exceed 2 million unique users. The countdown begins! Here is the article about our first 1 million users posted on October 26, 2013: divebuddy.com/photo/71066/divebuddycom-exceeds-1-...ion-unique-visitors/...
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Return to Cayman novel excerpt
The following is an excerpt of the new thriller from Eric Douglas, Return to Cayman: Paradise Held Hostage. If you want to find out what happens next, or what’s really going on, pick up a copy in softcover or on Kindle. Eric will also donate a portion of all sales through July 31, 2015 to the Cayman Magic Reef Recovery effort. Return to Cayman: Paradise Held Hostage Return to Cayman ERIC DOUGLAS CHAPTER 5 Tanya was deep in her reports, sitting on the swaying boat and feeling mildly nauseous. A s...
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Lake Rawlings in VA is Closing
Lake Rawlings in Rawlings, Virginia is closing. Here is an excerpt from their website: "It is with sadness that I must tell you our company is on the losing end of negotiations for the continued use of the Rawlings Quarry properties after March 31, 2015. Negotiations to purchase the properties were tilted too far to the side of the landowner, and the family owners would not give us a long term lease or sell their properties to us." Every Fri - Sun in March, 2015...they are have a liquidation sal...
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Scuba Fitness: The TIDES Workout
The Caribbean Sea and its more than 7,000 islands bespeak the adventurous history of many peoples such as the Americans, Dutch, French, Spanish, English, Mexicans, and Portuguese. Native cultures of the Maya, Arawak and Carib indians still weave through the islands with influences from Africa. It is bordered by the continents of North, Central and South America along with their respective coastal countries like Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica and Suriname, to name a few. The Caribbean is also the b...
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California Diver Magazine publishes Hardcore Dive Team!
With our survey dives going on in Santa Monica Bay for Californiashipstoreefs.org it has put us on a new, very promising site in Redondo Beach area, near the Palawan wreck. A big Thanks goes to California’s #1 dive publication CaliforniaDiver.com for running the story! The ducks are getting lined up, acquired vessels, designated sink site has revealed all around A’s in analysis studies, to effect the beginnings of multiple ongoing artificial reef development. It’d be a good time to contact Calif...
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Scuba Diving Certification for Blind Diver
Course Director-Dr. Jami Epstein at Camp Bay Beach Dive & Adventure Resort -Roatan Honduras east end , Trains and Certified a Blind Dive at Camp bay resort.... People with Disability have been working with Dr. Epstein as he has courses for disabled people. Divepath.com is the Scuba /Adaptive Scuba Instructor & Dive Master School at the resort...There are diving certifications and dive specialty’s offered weekly. check our web site for dive specials going on now till December -142013 Diver-$695- ...
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DiveBuddy.com Exceeds 1 Million Unique Visitors!
Greg - 10/26/2013 8:39 AM
On October 26, 2013, DiveBuddy.com has exceeded 1 million unique visitors! Since we began tracking our web statistics on December 19, 2006, DiveBuddy.com has continued to grow rapidly. Today marks the first day that we have exceeded 1 million unique visitors to our "little" scuba community. That’s over 1 million different scuba divers, instructors, dive centers, dive retailers and anyone else interested in scuba diving. Our Pageviews are now over 26 million! Yes, I said 26 MILLION! Very few onli...
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Year One - DiveBuddy Beats ScubaEarth
Greg - 10/25/2013 9:29 AM
In the 4th Quarter 2013 edition of PADI’s Undersea Journal, they bragged about the first year of ScubaEarth (their attempt to mimic what DiveBuddy has been doing for many years). However, the first year of DiveBuddy.com beat every one of the web statistics from PADI’s ScubaEarth. The following compares DiveBuddy.com’s first year (Jan 2007 - Dec 2007) to the first year of PADI’s ScubaEarth (Aug 2012 - Jul 2013): Pageviews: DB 3.4 million vs. PADI 3 million Average Page Views Per Visit: DB 19.5 vs...
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Australian diver survives second shark attack in 10 years
Australian diver survives second shark attack in 10 years (No photographs available) An Australian diver was recovering in hospital Wednesday after surviving his second shark attack in 10 years, according to local media reports. Greg Pickering was diving for shellfish when he was gored by what officials suspect was a great white near the city of Esperance in Western Australia. It was the second time the 55-year-old has found himself in the jaws of a shark. In 2004, he was bitten on the leg while...
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