Clifton Gardens is a muck diver’s paradise, right in the middle of a cosmopolitan city.
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Although we’re out of our natural element while diving, we’ve still got that innate need to touch the things that pique our curiosity.
At the start of the dive you should be overweight by the same amount as the weight of gas in your cylinders.
Diving in Grotta Giusti is an amazing experience for any divers with a strong exploratory spirit, in search of new and unique experiences.
Here are three techniques that will allow you to push the easy button when ascending from a recreational dive and take the fear and stress out of ascents.
Often mistaken for another group of animals and originally classified as mollusks, barnacles are arthropods, which means they have jointed legs.
Yakushima is well worth a visit — you can enjoy the best of both land and sea on this fascinating little island.
No cyber-experience could ever live up to the real thing, but hopefully these virtual “dives” will encourage people to take a leap into the underwater world.
Sunk by five Japanese kamikazes, the Emmons sits peacefully on the bottom of the seafloor, a resting place for U.S. sailors and Japanese alike.
You may be lucky enough to see the spinner dolphins act out the behavior for which they are named – flinging themselves out of the water and spinning in circles before splashing back into the sea.
If you’re wondering if your child is ready to take the plunge with you, there’s no broad-stroke answer.
Blennies often possess comically painted faces and bizarre horn-like structures on their tiny heads that make them look hilarious, but there is more to this large family of small fishes than their cuteness.
While searching for our critters, I felt myself go into full hunter-gatherer mode, which injected what I can only describe as pure, determined focus straight into my blood stream.
The current-rich wall is in a marine protected area within the Coral Triangle, so naturally, a multitude of soft coral species flourish here, in fan and tree-like growth forms to filter plankton out of the current.
Even though these seadragons are about a foot long, they are surprisingly hard to see, so swim slowly once you arrive at the kelp.
The next time you dive along a tropical coral reef, slow down and carefully scan the inside of a sponge, the pinkish stem of a soft coral, or the crevices in-between the fingers of a hard-coral for tiny, fast-moving fish.
Underwater geocaching is fun for both newly qualified and experienced divers since most of the caches are easily accessible to everyone.
Dahab turned out to be one of those places that sucks you in and never lets you leave.