From SimplyScuba.com,

“This octopus can completely change it’s shape to look like an array of predators, it really is fascinating. I am aware that other animals do mimic other animals as a defensive mechanism, like when flies change their colour to black and yellow to mimic a wasp. But this is a completely different scale. Check out the video to learn more.”

Thailand is one of the few places in the world where scuba divers might come face to face with the world’s biggest fish - the whale shark.

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I have come across many people who dealt with this dilemma. As scuba diving is one of those activities that demand a lot of time and money, a keen enthusiast is going to devote his/her holidays and spare time to this pursuit. To a non-diver, a diver’s commitments to his/her sport may seem odd or obsessive.

Put straight, a non-diver just doesn’t get it. Why would someone spend their weekends going to a quarry or mudflat to get cold and risk an ear infection? Then there are the vacations, dishing out for over-weight airline luggage and scheduling all your activities around diving.

The question for the non-diving partner: Should you get into the sport to have common ground with your diving partner?

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- Dive and stay packages as low as $995 at our host resort

- A portion of the event fee may be claimed as a charitable donation

- 6 nights and 5 two-tank boat dives, including tanks and weights

- Kick-off party and closing event

- Nightly hors d’oeuvres at area restaurants and attractions

- STEPHEN FRINK’S FAMOUS UNDERWATER PHOTO SEMINAR AND SPECIAL “6-PACK” PHOTO COMPETITION

- Underwater photo scavenger hunt

- Underwater treasure hunt

- Environmental seminar presented by R.E.E.F

- Presentation by Dr. Alex Brylske, world-renowned writer, speaker and environmentalist on “Coral Grief: Fall of the Cities Beneath the Sea”

More info @ http://www.keylargowrecks.com/reef-fest.htm

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For Mother’s Day, mother & son bonding during a visit to the Florida Keys which includes Scuba Diving together.

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Zeagle Express Tech Deluxe BCD comes with a deluxe webbing harness which includes an articulated shoulder assembly that swivels to adjust the harness to the contours of your torso. The compact 24lb lift capacity offers a retractable bladder assembly for streamlined diving. The Zeagle Express Tech Deluxe has two tank straps to insure no tank movement. The two sets of center plate grommets allow for attaching twin cylinders and the interchangable bladder system allows you to swap the wing with any of the Zeagle Air Cells.

Add a Pad Kit to The Zeagle Express Tech Deluxe BCD for just $45.95 the kit comes with a set of shoulder pads and soft back pad. you can also add a weight system choose between the 20lb Zip Touch or 30 lb Ripcord weight system. The Zeagle Express Tech Deluxe BCD is light weight and packs very small, making it the perfect travel BCD without giving up the comfort and security of the typical more bulky BCD’s.

Price: $292.00

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What gear of your own you will need will depend a lot on where you are going to be learning. If you are learning in the UK, for instance, then you will need cold weather diving gear whereas go to Mexico or Egypt and a lot less is needed.

Also, the dive centre or instructor that you are using will also dictate what gear you need. If you are learning with a small club, their stocks of gear to lend you might be small, whereas a holiday spot dive centre is likely to have everything that you might need.

So, apart from the demands of your trainers, a lot is down to personal preference and what you want to buy. But, I do recommend buying for yourself the more personal items on the divers inventory. These will include:

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Author: Mohini Johnson

Buton Island is becoming an increasingly popular scuba diving destination in its own right, and this comes as no surprise considering it is so close to the world renowned Wakatobi diving region. With the Wakatobi being famous for its spectacular diving and its location at the heart of the Coral Triangle, it makes sense that its close neighbours are going to share in that huge amount of biodiversity and be pretty good bets for discovering some great diving too. What surprises me is that Buton hasn’t been discovered as a top diving destination before now.

So why is Buton becoming an increasingly popular diving destination?

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My favorite time of the year for reef diving just started — juvenile fish season! Beginning in May, reefs across the Caribbean, including those in Mexico where I live, are filled with teenage fish. Now, I know that people rarely think of fish as “cute,” but being the diving nut that I am, I love to search the reefs for adorable juvenile fish. The fish in this photo is a juvenile Trunkfish. To me, its appearance on the reef heralds the beginning of spring.

Juvenile Trunkfish like this one are about the size of a pea. Little trunkfish tend to hang out in crevices in the reef, under overhangs, or inside small pockets on the sides of big coral formations. In many places in the Caribbean, especially in May, June, and July, these fish are not rare - only difficult to spot. Divers on the lookout for juvenile Trunkfish should wait a few seconds when peering into dark openings in the coral for their eyes to adjust, or carry a flashlight to increase the chances of finding them.

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