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Avoid dangers while Scuba Diving: Tips for novice divers
Generally scuba diving is not considered a dangerous sport. Of course, it’s a bit riskier than, for example, tennis or golf, but it’s far safer than zip lining or parachute jumping. Today you can easily find good modern scuba diving equipment that is reliable and will protect you from many dangers. Add the proper training, [...]
All about Sharks
“He’s Just Misunderstood Is All” As a dive instructor in the tropics I am asked on a nearly daily basis: “Are there sharks in the water?” to which I reply: “Yes, but they are small and harmless”, which immediately invokes the response: “But what if they get angry, or are hungry, or I intrude on [...]
Top Ten Diving Myths Dispelled For The Novice Diver
Myths Diving is a sport with a huge community of active participants. Most of those participants have been well trained and are well informed about the important truths of the activity. There is a small percentage of, mostly very novice, divers that have somehow gotten the wrong end of the pointer stick and harbor fears [...]
Protect Sharks from Extermination
On the screen : Night, darkness and ocean. Charming blonde left her laughing company behind and decided to swim under the calm waves of ocean. Water, under the silver moonlight is being disturbed only by elastic motions of human body. But you already start feeling early signs of impending trouble in the music: the pace [...]
Diving in Roca Partida , Socorro Islands
Scuba Diving in Roca Partida Roca Partida mean Broken Rock in Spanish. This stark volcanic pinnacle rises from the depths of the Pacific 200 miles (320 km) off the tip of the Baja Peninsula. This is truly wild diving, with powerful swells, big currents, and large marine species at one of the most isolated dive [...]
Is it worth to worry seeing a shark during diving
The existing global statistics about attacks of sharks are not entirely reliable as It has been changed significantly over the past decade. If we talk about the average value, then it is about nine unprovoked shark attacks per year. Slightly less than 20% of them are fatal cases. In other words, a few million dives [...]
Do not hand feed sharks!
Port St. Johns, South Africa. Recently, a shark killed a 16 year old surfer, very close to the place where tiger sharks are regularly hand fed. Most likely the case is that the local dive guides are constantly hand feeding tiger sharks, and marine predators are beginning to associate man with food, so perhaps they [...]
Diver fought tiger shark to save his friend
During two hours Klas Craig wrestled with 3.6 meter predator spearing it seven time. Mr Klas fished for yellowfin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico in the company with the fisherman Cameron Kirkonnelom, photographer and film director Ryan Shtrantsem MakInnsom. The group was already leaving, when a tiger shark appeared. The tiger shark looked interested [...]
Sharks: Facts against Myths
Sharks have millions of years of history behind them and they haven’t changed much since then. In the minds of ours myths are mixed with reality, and we don’t differ facts from superstitions, and all this is because of usual human fear before the unknown. Divers respect sharks as they are very smart animals, and [...]
Year 2009 is declared Year of Sharks
I would like share with small info with those people who care about the sea and its inhabitants. Year 2009 declared the International Year of sharks (I recall, 2008 was the year of the coral reef). Difficult to say but it’s a fact , most of us living far away from the sea or ocean [...]
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