Are you a Shark Week junkie? Do you find yourself entranced with ocean shows on Animal Planet, National Geographic? Or, did you get caught up in the book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or grow up on stores of Jacques Cousteau? If so, it might be time for you to take your dream to the …
If you are on the fence about if or how to buy scuba diving equipment, this article is for you. Many new divers tend to dip one toe in the diving pool and can’t decide whether to jump in or stay topside. Dive shops will advise you to buy, and you may be thinking they …
Sea salt. Surely this is one of the great gifts of the ocean, including salt scrubs, healing salts, salts for bathing and of course, great diving (like the Salt Pier). Salt goes on everything from simple egg breakfasts to the the most complicated culinary experiences. But isn’t it ironic, that when ordering seafood, especially fish, nearly …
“Diving? No. I’d be claustrophobic”. I hear this often, and I don’t understand. Scuba diving to me, is one of the most freeing sports I’ve ever attempted, short of horseback riding. Perhaps it is because I started in the “young and dumb” phase of my life, where fear couldn’t possibly overpower accomplishment. Or, perhaps it …
December. Rainy season. Rain starting, pouring down as the seas picked up to 3′ swells and rising. We were in between dives when one of the other divers started feeling seasick. We were pretty close to a nearby dock and offered to drop the diver off. The captain asked if we minded diving the close …
Amateur videographer? By now you have bought a GoPro or a nice underwater video camera for your scuba diving adventures. Great. Here are a few things you’re probably going to figure out over time: Your videos are blue…or green Red is the first color of the spectrum to disappear underwater, and it seems to …
For many of the lucky ones, there is a time in our lives where we are presented with the opportunity to take our very first SCUBA diving class. For many, the adventure produces a few more snorkelers than divers. For some, the adventure ends after the first open water certification. For others, it takes longer for the …
What is exactly is a Nudibranch? Wikipedia says: A soft-bodied mollusk. I like to think of “Nudibranch” as a common term that SCUBA divers throw around on land because the hand signals for such a creature are virtually non-existent. There are several thousand different Nudibranchs that live in the oceans, deep to shallow, cold to …
Sometimes I feel like a landlocked soul seeking adventure on the last and greatest frontier on Earth. Perhaps it is the leftover wanderlust from childhood – that long lost desire to grow up and be like Indiana Jones, Lewis & Clark, pirates, cowboys and the like. I believe there are so many things here on …
