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Scuba Diving in the Seychelles
April 15th, 2022
CREDIT: Polly Polly PhilipsonStart planning your next dive trip! Today you will learn about diving in the Seychelles.PART 1: OVERVIEW OF SCUBA DIVING IN THE SEYCHELLESThe Seychelles is an archipelago ... Read More
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Scuba Diving in Tanzania
April 15th, 2022
Start planning your next dive trip! Today you will learn about diving in Tanzania.PART 1: OVERVIEW OF SCUBA DIVING IN TANZANIAFor all Tanzania diving destinations, the international gateway is the air... Read More
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Scuba Diving In Mauritius
April 15th, 2022
CREDIT: Brandi MuellerScuba Diving in MauritiusStart planning your next dive trip! Today you will learn about diving in Mauritius.PART 1: OVERVIEW OF SCUBA DIVING IN MAURITIUSMauritius is an up and co... Read More
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Sardine Run Port St Johns by ProDive
April 15th, 2022
CREDIT: ProDivePORT ST JOHNS, THE JEWEL OF THE WILD COAST Port St. Johns is situated in the heart of the wild coast and offers a unique beauty to the Sardine Run experience.Port St Johns is a quaint c... Read More
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Sardine Run Port Elizabeth by ProDive
April 15th, 2022
THE BEST SARDINE RUN SIGHTINGS Port Elizabeth has some of the best sardine run sightings along the coast, where thousands of dolphins can be seen chasing shoals of fish into tight bait balls, which r... Read More
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South African Sardine Run By Prodive
April 15th, 2022
CREDIT: Prodive : The ultimate South African Sardine Experience. A typical sardine bait ball in crystal clear conditions where dolphins, sharks, whales and sea birds are in a feeding frenzy is in fact... Read More
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South African Sardine Run by Walter Bernardis
April 15th, 2022
CREDIT: DEPTH Magazine - https://depth-magazine.com/magazine/sept_2021_insert/sept_2021.html & Walter BernardisThe Sardine Run On The South African Wild CoastI’m Walter Bernardis, and I was bullied in... Read More
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Marfan Syndrome Recommendations.
April 7th, 2022
Medications and your baseline wellness are also worth reviewing. Some medications may have adverse reactions that may be a contraindication to diving. Your daily wellness is a necessary consideration,... Read More
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Concussion and Return to Diving
April 7th, 2022
The best recommendation is to focus on your recovery and not resume diving during this period. Determining your seizure risk after your head injury is necessary before consideration for a return to di... Read More
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Going Up
April 7th, 2022
Every night as the sun slips below the horizon, countless aquatic creatures begin migrating up from the deep in what is quite possibly the greatest show on Earth. Seeking nourishment in shallow water... Read More
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A Hole in My Heart
April 7th, 2022
During the summer of 2019, our group visited Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Michigan to dive the historic shipwrecks from the late 1800s that rest nearly intact in 160 to 200 fe... Read More
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High-Pressure Hose injuries
April 7th, 2022
When we first learn the basics of high pressures in hoses and cylinders, we are aware of the potential for serious injury to ourselves and those around us. If hoses fail, the results can be ear-shatte... Read More
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Mexico’s Sardine Run
April 7th, 2022
Finding a submerged ball of sardines in the open ocean is extremely unlikely by happenstance. Successful encounters occur when divers adopt the same protocols as the seasoned skippers of the sportfish... Read More
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A Sense of Purpose
April 2nd, 2022
Christy Pattengill-Semmens, Ph.D. As co-executive director of the nonprofit Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) she oversees the Volunteer Fish Survey Project, one of the world’s largest an... Read More
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Short but Beautiful Lives
March 30th, 2022
Nudibranchs are jewelry of the sea — beautiful creatures blessed with unimaginable colors and shapes. Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots.... Read More
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The Argonaut Octopus and the jellyfish
March 30th, 2022
The form of a shelled argonaut octopus clutching a jellyfish takes shape just as the odd couple breaks the surface and bobs in a ring of ripples. Before I can catch my breath, the octopus dives, easil... Read More
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Pool Operation: Know Before you Go
March 30th, 2022
The challenge is keeping the balance in an ever-changing environment. Any pool built for public use, whether at an aquatic complex or a hotel, should have a certified pool operator (CPO) who has the k... Read More
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Titan Meets Titanic
March 30th, 2022
Rush understood that the Titanic is the rare underwater site that billions of people recognize and would draw both interest and funding to his efforts. Once OceanGate decided to take people to the Tit... Read More
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Pulmonary Hypertension and Diving
March 30th, 2022
A person’s preexisting condition and exercise intolerance will affect the heart and lungs’ ability to perform underwater. Various factors while underwater lead to intravascular volume shifts to the ce... Read More
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Laryngospasm and Anxiety
March 30th, 2022
If water entered the larynx, the epiglottis’ natural response would be to close the airways to prevent aspiration. The larynx would reflexively trigger coughing to expel the fluid, or you would try to... Read More
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Not Only for Diving
March 30th, 2022
The training style DAN uses — repeating skills and information as building blocks to the next topic — gave me a reliable memory bank of the steps for first aid and neurological assessment. I easily re... Read More
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More Than a Sore Shoulder
March 30th, 2022
When reflecting on what likely went wrong, I realized that my 15 minutes of cold decompression after 45 minutes of comfortably warm ongassing at depth was a textbook case of what not to do. While it w... Read More
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Low-Visibility Diving
March 30th, 2022
It can be a fun experience to dive without seeing anything. When you need to rely totally on your ears and hands, you will be surprised by how quickly your body can adjust to the new situation.
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Building Better Balance
March 26th, 2022
Most activities that keep you on your feet naturally help you maintain balance, but the targeted exercises in this circuit can further improve your stability. These unilateral exercises isolate each s... Read More
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