The purpose of this article is to give you a perspective of what it’s really like living the dream, being a dive instructor and living in Paradise. Like you, I to had what some would call a “real job” some ...
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Scuba Diving Software for Dive Centers
One of the toughest things in any business is ensuring you are tracking what a customer wants to do and when. This is even more important in the dive business when a customer calls or emails and wants to reserve ...
Read More »The Dogfish Debate
The spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias is not the type of sexy shark that Spielberg would make a movie about. No one has ever been terrorized by a mud shark. Fishermen sometimes get jabbed by a fin spine when they are ...
Read More »Tracking & Marketing All In One With Scubaocity
One of the toughest things in any business is ensuring you are tracking what a customer wants to do and when. This is even more important in the dive business when a customer calls or emails and wants to reserve ...
Read More »Sharks for open water !
Pura Vida guys and avid scuba jedi readers!!! From the green, lush beauty that is Costa Rica its time to give you an update on diving pacific style. As November draws to a close we are on our way into dry ...
Read More »Another Day in Paradise
I’m back on land for one evening and leaving again tomorrow morning I’ve had a fantastic week in the southern Egyptian Red Sea with great diving and lots of sharks. Next week we’re going up north to dive wrecks like ...
Read More »Liquid Image Camera Review
Well, this is the issue: I’m 32 and after 5 years as a full time diving instructor I decided to stop my diving career and spend more time at home…. I decided to choose a “drier” life. The reason? In ...
Read More »So today is my Scuba B-day….
Well, in fact it is my B-day today… gosh I’m 32… that’s why I decided to write a post about my personal 5 scuba diving products I may want to add to my “Birth Day Scuba Wish list” . My ...
Read More »Status Report Egypt 6.5
Noah built his ark before it started to rain. To wait till the water was up at his knees would have been a mistake. I agree with Noah: It’s better to prepare for potentially dangerous situations and take necessary percussions ...
Read More »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: Thi merit badge, the first new ...
Read More »Scuba Murder gets Justice
You all read this news in all the scuba diving magazines in the world (oops… I mean… scuba diving magazines don’t talk about the bad things in the scuba industry, only the goodie things). Well, it seems now that one ...
Read More »Minimum Age for Scuba Diver Certification with NAUI
Minimum Age for Scuba Diver Certification with NAUI I am often asked (again just today) “How old does my child need to be to dive?”. NAUI has a minimum age requirement for open water scuba diver, it is 15 years. ...
Read More »Rock Bottom- Rethinking the 500psi Gas Rule
Throughout the world, divers are told again and again to return to the boat with 300-500 psi in their tanks. Understandably, most competent divers stretch their bottom time out as long as they can. They smile as they show their ...
Read More »Selamat Datang or Welcome to Scuba Diving Malaysia
I would like to introduce the Malaysian underwater to all divers around the world. My first ever diving was at Perhentian Island, Malaysia. It was spectacular and awesome!!! Then i went to Tioman, Payar and Sipadan… Sipadan was speechless….. ...
Read More »The History Behind PADI
I will not attempt to compare PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) to other agencies as each has its own standards equal to or above the minimum established. I also believe that the individual instructor has a big influence on ...
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