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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Scuba Divers Practice Distance and Relay for Dive The Coast
Nearly 25 divers from throughout the state will be diving this weekend to prepare for Dive The Coast 2013. Teams of divers coordinated by Kim White, founder of Dive the Coast, will begin diving from the Breakwater in Monterey on Saturday in two-hour intervals from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Public safety divers and volunteers will provide surface support with inflatables and kayaks. Some divers will head north into the bay, and the others east or west, parallel to Del Monte Beach. Each set of divers...
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Volunteers needed to "Dive The Coast" for ocean organizations
Divers along the 1000 miles of California coastline are gearing up for the largest mass scuba dive in the history of diving. Test dives are being done to gauge dive distance, depth and air, all of which will be formulated for diving longer distances during Dive the Coast scheduled for June 2013. Dive teams will first perform calibration dives to determine distance. Additional dives are relay dives where one team dives a distance then hands a flag to another team and so forth. Volunteer divers an...
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Scuba Divers Share Vision of Fitness
SAN DIEGO - Local scuba divers, Gary Hawkins, Founder of Ride FitTM and underwater videographer, and Gretchen M. Ashton, CFT, NBFE, owner of ScubaFit® and FitDiver®, have joined forces. Committed to the health and wellness of scuba divers, both have personal fitness stories, are inspired by adventures in scuba diving, and empowered by the influence of the sport to motivate divers to fitness. Hawkins transferred his underwater film success to Ride FitTM; an exciting new series of videos to motiva...
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Preparations Continue for 1000-Mile Scuba Dive
Test dives scheduled beginning this month. CALIFORNIA - Dive the Coast, Santa Cruz Chapter is conducting test dives aboard the Silver Prince in Monterey, California, beginning January 21st, 2012, and continuing the third Saturday of every month throughout the year. The outings are open to all divers novice to advanced throughout the state. How much distance covered largely depends on how many divers sign up. The cost is $50.00 with divers providing their own tanks. Call (831) 204-0539 or e-mail ...
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Pros Team Up to Bring Fitness to Divers
PADI approves brand new ScubaFit® Diver Distinctive Specialty Course. Dive and fitness instructors alike can now become certified to teach fitness to divers. The Padi ScubaFit® course was developed by Gretchen M. Ashton, a certified fitness trainer and Stephen Mendel, a multi agency scuba instructor. The PADI ScubaFit® Diver Distinctive Specialty Course offers new opportunities for instructors and dive shop owners to improve the health, performance and safety of their diving clients and increase...
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