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2020: The Year We Didn’t:

2020: The Year We Didn’t:

2020: The year we didn’t! - We didn’t dive, we didn’t train, and we didn’t go on holiday. So with 2021 here, we have started to plan this year’s events. Once the OK has been given, we intend to make up for last year’s lack of diving. We have already been out this year...

Padi Peak Performance Buoyancy

Padi Peak Performance Buoyancy

 Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality and Introduction to Diving in the UK Following on from my article about my Open Water Certification, my (that is Ashley and I) first speciality course I wanted to do was the Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality.  I chose this...

Belize Scuba Diving

Belize Scuba Diving

A blink of the eye the Belize scuba diving trip was all over. For 3 months I swapped the drudgery of day to day life in the UK for the paradise that is Belize on an amazing dive trip. It was my first time traveling alone and I fell in love with this beautiful land...

Scuba Diving Indonesia

Scuba Diving Indonesia

Our trip was to be a 2 centre holiday with 4 nights at Murex Manado and 5 nights at Murex Bangka. The Scuba Diving Indonesia package included transfers to and from the centres, but what made this different was that our transfer between the centres was made by boat and...

Moving On

Moving On

It’s that time of year again when many people are digging out their dive kit after being locked away in the garage during the winter. Many of these will be getting in touch asking to brush up their skills with a Scuba Review or just want to get in the pool to make...

South Africa

South Africa

As Kevin and I are merely Divemaster trainees we have been given the most envious job of letting you all know how the South Africa Scuba Diving Orca trip went recently. There were 11 of us in total with 10 diving. The first part was six days diving in two places;...

Scuba Diving Philippines

Scuba Diving Philippines

On Monday 11th March we embarked on our long journey to Malapascua which was our first destination on our Scuba Diving Philippines trip. The first flight was great as we had so much room to stretch and relax as the flight wasn’t full, 7 hours later we arrived in...

First rung on the ladder

First rung on the ladder

When in conversation and people ask me what I do, and I tell them that I am a Scuba Diving Instructor, I often get the reply ‘I’m a diver too!’.  Once I start talking to them, I realise they did the PADI Open Water course before they went to the Maldives on...

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day

Historically diving was a male dominated activity but more recently more and more women have joined the ranks.  With a staff of over 30 volunteers, and a third of them being women, this shows a big increase from when I started over 20 years ago.  I have often come...

Scuba Diving Fiji – Frontier Conservation

Scuba Diving Fiji – Frontier Conservation

After only diving for 3 months I feel like it’s a huge part of my life already. I aspire to become a marine biologist someday so I decided to volunteer in Fiji by taking part in a marine conservation project for 7 weeks. My Scuba Diving Fiji trip was round the corner...