PADI News

Scouts: Scuba Diving Merit Badge

Us divers, in the scuba diving industry, we usually complain that we don’t do enough to promote scuba diving to the new generations. Well… today good news. Welcome to the Scuba Diving Merit Badge: ...

New cool PADI Toy

PADI Americas is rolling out the next generation in electronic dive planning – the Electronic Recreational Dive Planner, Multilevel version (eRDPML). Developed by Diving Science and Technology (DSAT) and distributed by PADI, the new...

PADI Asia Pacific Member Awards 2008 Finalists

The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) Asia Pacific is proud to announce the finalists of the PADI Asia Pacific Member Awards for 2008. At the end of 2004 PADI Asia Pacific undertook...

Dive Safety

Horrible Scuba Diving Accident in Pattaya

We all love to dive in Thailand, and for sure Scuba Diving in Thailand is a must if you are seriously into diving.. but if you have ever been in Thailand, you...

Scuba Swat dies after 3meter dive… in Israel.

Israel Navy commander Adm. Eliezer Marom has convened a panel to investigate how a soldier in the advanced stages of training as a naval commando drowned early yesterday in a routine three-meter training...

I want to Kill my wife, while Scuba diving….

Well, why not? At the end of the day, you can only get 1 year in Jail if you decided to kill your wife in a Scuba Diving Honeymoon. Gosh… because that’s what...

Eco News

Cayman Islands Tourists disturbing the Sting Rays

The same story as always… too many tourists playing with wild life. so here we go again: Based on the research of a University of Rhode Island professor, tourist activity in the waters...

Dubai Aquarium Tiger Sharks Turn a Killer

So again, we see that you really can’t “domesticate” nature, as we see in the Dubai Aquarium last week, where sand Tiger sharks have killed at least 40 smaller reef sharks and been...

Flippers from Around the World: We are not happy!

Bottlenose dolphins suffering from food shortages may be killing their sibling species to take out the competition, scientists have warned. A series of dead porpoises and young bottlenose dolphins washed up the country’s coastline...

Insane News

Another weird Japanese Scuba Stunt…

Tokyo offers its residents many pleasures, but scuba diving hasn’t been one of them, until this week. To launch their latest luxury resorts in Okinawa, InterContinental Hotels Group and its partner in Japan,...

Marine Science

Peter Bethune… not really an eco ninja? Or a smart bloke….

Kiwi anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune is expected to be arrested by the Japanese authorities when he arrives in Tokyo today on the whaling ship Shonan Maru 2. Bethune has been held on the harpoon...

A Line in the Sand as a Call to Action

Among divers and conservationists, it’s hardly controversial to speak up against the killing of sharks for shark fin soup. Inspiring people like Rob Stewart and the team associated with his acclaimed documentary are...

Amazing Diving with 50ft humpback whale

So we dive and we live expecting one moment like this. But i guess we can’t be all like Marco Queral, for sure one of the best underwater photographers we have seen. Not...

Scuba Education

Scouts: Scuba Diving Merit Badge

Us divers, in the scuba diving industry, we usually complain that we don’t do enough to promote scuba diving to the new generations. Well… today good news. Welcome to the Scuba Diving Merit Badge: ...

Underwater Scuba diving Politics?

How can we ask politicians to protect the marine life in our countries, if many of them are fat bureaucrats that have never seen a fish apart from Finding Nemo. That’s why I...

Scuba Diving in India: new Industry ready to Take off?

If PADI wants to get in a market…. well, India could be a very nice $$$$ option. don’t you think? Millions and millions of future Indian divers interested in learning that Diving is...

Scuba Products

Scubacraft the convertible Scuba Vehicle

There are 2 type of people that will buy the scubacraft… divers with a lot of money …. and divers with a sick amount of money….  . Regardless on which group are, this...

Liquid Image Scuba Mask: Looks pretty cool

Not to often we see new cool scuba products, it seems that many products in the scuba diving industry are the same same… boring stuff… but this one… well, what the heck! It...

Review Pentax Optio WS80: Small but cool

Sometimes we just want something easy, something that we can take snorkeling and that we just don’t have to mortgage the house to be able to buy it. So the pentax optio WS80...

Sharks

A Line in the Sand as a Call to Action

Among divers and conservationists, it’s hardly controversial to speak up against the killing of sharks for shark fin soup. Inspiring people like Rob Stewart and the team associated with his acclaimed documentary are...

Sharks? Is all in your body language…

So it seems like with dogs, Sharks bite and eat (you) depending of your body language based on Mike Rutzen a top diver (and a pretty brave guy) that dives with great white...

Do you have money? Buy 30 sharks

You all know that at ScubaHerald.com we hate when people just use money to buy wild marine life… but hey! We can’t change the world… so this is the news: Dubai Aquarium, one...