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Ocean Pollution has put our oceans at the brink of disaster Every year more than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans, but how does that affect humans and what can we do to stop this behavior? Plastic and other forms of pollution are ending up in our...

Top 10 Best Dive Sites in the World

Do You Have a Dive Bucket List for 2018? Everyone has a bucket list of things they would like to do before they die. It makes sense that divers should have their own bucket list! A list of dive sites to see before the end of their diving days. A list of the top ten...

Ears & Diving

No more bad dives because of your ears! Together with DAN Southern Africa & DAN Europe we have created this extensive graphic about your ears and diving: Grab this graphic totally free to show on you own site – just copy this code and insert it on you site: Don't...

Scuba Diving the Bikini Atoll

Bikini Atoll is world famous for two things: inspiring the last big innovation in ladies’ swimwear and the wrecks left over from the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests.

Dive Watch Questions Answered

What is a dive watch, and should you get one? We answer your questions. As a dive instructor, I am often asked questions regarding equipment purchase. And one topic I get a lot of questions about, are dive watches. So I’ve put together the most common questions I’ve...

21 Ways to Avoid Motion Sickness

Don't let Sea Sickness ruin your dives anymore Nothing ruins a dive trip like sea sickness. Thus, most divers will go along way to avoid spilling your breakfast overboard. But what can you do to avoid getting motion sickness? What really works? >> Grab this...

Proceed With Caution: Even Some Popular Destinations Pose Health Risks

There are plentiful web pages listing the world’s best dive locations, but these pages rarely, if ever, tell you which dive sites to avoid. As divers will understand, we’re not talking about the threat of sharks here; rather, we’re talking about countries where divers...

Keep An Eye On Your Contact Lenses While Diving – Eye Parasites Live In Water

British (and other nationalities’) media recently reported on an 18-year-old British girl, Jessica Greaney, who suffered an attack by an eye parasite. The parasite entered her eye by way of her contact, which she had cleansed in contaminated water. Her story can be...

ORB Dive Helmet: Is This New Diving Helmet The Future Of Scuba Diving?

New diving helmet seeks to revolutionize scuba diving Scuba diving is an equipment-heavy activity. In fact, ‘equipment-heavy’ doesn’t even do it justice, scuba diving is equipment-dependent. As in, without fairly large amounts of equipment, it is simply not possible...

Start Diving: Open Water And Advanced – Diary Of A Divemistress

Hi, I’m Sophie, a PADI diving Instructor. After diving for 16 years and teaching for 7 of those, I am finally realizing a personal dream and opening my own dive resort in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Here's more about Nomad Divers Bangka As my professional diving career...

5 Things Not To Do During A Dive

Scuba diving the do-no-harm way In a previous article 10 Things Not To Do If You Love Scuba Diving And The Ocean, I covered ten things you should not do, if you want to protect the ocean. But where these focused on general, everyday behavior, this article will focus...

Shark Series: The Great Hammerhead Shark

Hammerhead sharks (lat. Sphynidae) are in fact not a single shark species, but rather a collective term for a sub-species, or genus, of shark. They count nine different sharks, though there is still some debate of the exact number of unique genera. Common for all of...

The PADI Rescue Diver Course: Diary Of A Divemistress

After my Advanced course I dived happily without taking any more courses for about fifty dives and five years. My brother, dad and I dived once more off Portland, Dorset, doing amazing drift dives as well as the lovely wreck the Countess of Erne. Sitting at around...

10 Things Not To Do If You Love Scuba Diving And The Ocean

by Thomas Grønfeldt Senger | Environment, Scuba Articles

How to protect the ocean, even when you’re not diving Scuba divers, by and large, love the ocean. And as a natural consequence of that, they’re interested in protecting it for ocean conservation. And there are a number of things you can do while diving to that end,...

Pre-Dive Checklist: Add Fun To Your Safety Check Routine

When you are about to dive underwater where your equipment is essentially your life support, there is no such thing as being too cautious. Double checking your equipment and having your buddy check it too may take a few extra minutes, but they are often very worth it....

The Coral Reef: A Diver’s Delight

Divers get to experience beauty unlike anything we will ever see on land. Coral reefs only add to the incredible natural beauty that exists beneath the water, and they are often the most sought out diving spots. With so many coral reefs the world over, it’s often...

Diving Insurance: How To Choose Your Dive Insurance

When we go diving especially on an out-of-the-country vacation, we are usually occupied in packing our dive equipment and personal stuff. We sometimes do a checklist review just to make sure nothing is left behind. Here's our Dive Packing Guide – What to bring on a...

50 fascinating facts about the ocean

Our oceans are filled with wonders that you can't really imagine! The Earth’s oceans are a world of mystery, magic and beauty. It’s this apart from anything else that lures divers into their depths. There is a seemingly endless array of fascinating facts about our...

Do you DIR? – Part II The DIR Equipment Setup

The DIR Equipment Setup The approach to the dive kit is probably what DIR is most known for, and many producers of dive gear now sell “DIR-style” equipment. The setup is actually known as the “Hogarthian setup”, after renowned cave diver William Hogarth Main. Did you...

Do You DIR?

What is DIR? DIR, unlike PADI, NAUI and the other diving organizations, is not a distinct training organization, but rather a diving philosophy or methodology that encompasses skills, planning, equipment, and much more. It is quite possibly both the most celebrated...

Diving With Contact Lenses

Are you starting diving and using glasses? Or maybe contact lenses? You will be happy to know that you can still dive! You might be afraid that without your glasses, you want be able to see underwater. And you’ve heard that diving with contact lenses is not an option....

Shark Feeding: Biting The Hand That Feeds You

Sharks and divers have shared the water since the inception of the sport. And to increase the diving adventure, hand feeding sharks have become a part of eco-tourism around the world. Some of the feeding is done through chumming and baiting on the surface while the...

Why Do We Pee After Diving?

Ever had to pee after scuba diving? You’re not alone, and you can thank (or blame) the pressure! Most divers have tried it at one point or another, and most experience it quite frequently: after coming back from a dive, they’re overwhelmed with a need to pee. But why...

11 Tips For Safe Diving

Is scuba diving a dangerous sport? No, it’s not. In fact, diving is considered to be safer than many other more conventional sports. Despite what sensationalist news headlines suggest, the incidence of diving accidents is far less frequent than you might imagine. And...

Dive Film Review: Sanctum (2011)

Tight spaces and conflict as cave dive goes wrong Sanctum is a 2011 adventure thriller directed by Alister Grierson and produced by James Cameron. It is based on a script by Andrew Wright, who was inspired to write it when he participated in a cave dive trip at...

Things To Consider Before Taking Up A Cave Diving Course

Cave diving is an entirely new world after coming from recreational diving. Different equipment and techniques are required and often the whole way you have been diving has to be adapted. Exploring the underground world is an indescribable feeling; leaving a narrow...

Fun With Deep Stops

If you are new to diving, or even a regular diver who wants to buy a new dive computer, you will notice more and more of them are now implementing the option of using deep stops. Since most non-technical diver training does not really talk about deep stops, here is...

Sustainable Diving: How To Become An Environmentally Friendly Diver

When you begin diving one of the most important aspects is an understanding of the environment and respect for it. With just a bit of knowledge of respecting the environment, becoming an environmentally friendly diver can leave a positive impact. Each year scuba...

Shark Series: Diving With Blacktip Reef Sharks

The black tipped reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is a favorite among many divers. It is of reasonable size, lives in warm, shallow, tropical waters, usually stays within the same quite small area, and isn’t overly shy. It is also easy to recognize, and quite...

5 Ways To Stop Your Dive Mask From Leaking

Fix that annoying leak with our five tips Few things can be more annoying than a persistent mask leak during a scuba dive. While not critical or dangerous in any way, the constant seeping in of water, not to mention having to stop routinely and empty your dive mask. A...

Beat The Heat: Overheating While Scuba Diving

How to deal with the heat while scuba diving in the summer! Summer is here, and with it, many people take to the water to swim, surf, and our all-time favorite: scuba diving. But with summer also often comes higher temperatures (one of the motivators for heading to...

Starting Scuba Diving: Keeping Dive Skills Sharp

So, today is the last day of your open water course. Congratulations, you have just finished and passed! You feel confident in your abilities and knowledge... surely, you will only get better and better form now on. That is probably one of most double edged assumption...

Shark Series: The Great White Shark

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is by far the most famous, and infamous, of all sharks. It is the second largest shark in the world, and one of the oldest predators still in existence. Highly migratory, it is found in almost all of the oceans in the...

Practice Makes Perfect – Tune Up Your Scuba Skills

It’s almost time to come out of diving hibernation as the winter-long surface interval comes to an end, so how do you reacquaint yourself with the skills that may have gotten a bit rusty? “Use it or lose it”, the old adage says, and it's very true, and definitely also...

Why I Don’t Like Shark Week

I don’t like shark week because I like sharks. Let me explain. Another Shark Week has come and gone. Shark Week, of course, is a week-long theme on the Discovery Channel, featuring shark programs. And while numerous environmental organizations take the popularity of...

Southern Egypt Dive Camps

With many countries adding Sharm to the no-travel list! So where can you go for an easy Red Sea shore dive? Try the dive camps near Masa Alam! The ongoing unrest in Egypt has caused a number of governments to add Sharm el-Sheik to the list of areas where all but...

Shark Series – Diving With Tiger Sharks

One of the most characteristic sharks in the oceans, the tiger shark is one of the largest species of sharks, and quite possibly one of the most infamous. It is considered one of the most dangerous species of sharks, with number of attacks only surpassed by the great...

Diving In Denmark

A quick introduction to diving in the land of the Little Mermaid Denmark, the small kingdom in Scandinavia, may only have some 5.5 million inhabitants in its 16,000 square miles of land mass, and due to its northern latitude, it’s waters are not exactly abundant in...

Technical Diving: What Is It All About?

You’ve probably seen them at your dive center, sat in small groups with laptops, paper, slates and pencils. Talking about things like gradient factors, deep stops, deco, lost gas, and bottom mix, while they “plan” their dive. You may have run into them on a dive boat,...

Oceans Awareness: The Triple-Threat To The Oceans

The three biggest threats to our oceans Let's take a look at our beloved oceans. What it is that threatens our oceans, and what we can do about it. Plastic Debris Garbage and debris in general, but plastic in particular, poses a threat to our oceans, and in particular...

Not Enough Plastic In The Ocean

New study finds that the amount of plastic debris found in our oceans is much less than previously estimated. But is this good or bad news? A new study, by Cozar et al, and published by PNAS.org, finds that plastic debris is more widespread in the world’s oceans than...

SSI Instructor Sanctioned With License Cancellation

YouTube video of an SSI instructor manhandling octopus got his instructor’s license suspended A Vietnam based instructor, Mark Scott of Diving Vietnam and Aloha Vietnam Scuba Divers has had his instructor’s license revoked by his issuing organization, Scuba Schools...

How To Deal With A Cramp While Diving

Cramps can be an unwanted companion on dives. Here’s what to do to fix - and avoid - them Dive for any amount of time, and you’re likely to have experienced it at least once: cramps! The powerful, painful death grip in a muscle that leaves you down for the count until...

Shark Series: The Thresher Shark

The thresher shark is not the most famous of sharks, partly because it is a rare shark to spot, and hence has not been filmed often. Easily recognized by its very long tail fin, the shark is a shy and elusive creature, that primarily lives in deep waters. It is a...

Underwater Wedding

Take the Plunge and Say “I do” With More Bubbles than Champagne When most people dream about their wedding, it usually involves a tranquil romantic scene with a bride in white floating elegantly down the aisle. There’s usually not a lot of water involved in these...

A Scuba Diver’s Impact On A Coral Reef

Coral reef diving is an all-time favorite to most scuba divers. But like it or not, scuba divers are causing substantial damage to the world’s coral reefs. Scientific evidence shows that divers are directly and/or indirectly responsible for damaging the reef life with...

Strong Current 101: Guide To Diving In Current

What to do if you’re swept away by a current during scuba diving? For many divers, diving in current is one of their nightmare scenarios: a strong current suddenly pushes them away from their dive site, away from their buddy or dive group, away to open sea. But with a...

The Smart Octopus: Diving With Octopus

Octopi might very well be among the smartest creatures underwater, and we’ve only just begun to understand them! For the longest time, humans viewed octopi as little more than slightly advanced snails; a soft, strange animal with little or no abilities, aside from...

Scuba Regulators And How To Choose One

Choosing a regulator is an important part of buying your own scuba gear Regulators, or regs for short, are quite literally the lifeline of scuba divers. They connect us to our air tanks, allowing us to breathe the gas stored in them. So picking the right scuba...

Scuba Diving Without the Mrs

So you are going on a holiday, you and your partner it’s just the two of you. No interruptions, just long walks on the beach, shopping and so on, you know the drill. Quality time together! But then, when you want to go diving, one or preferably two days - she starts...

Amazingly Fake Underwater Pictures

Divers love to tell tales, and document them with photos. But even photos can lie…

Epic Scuba Fails – How NOT to Enter the Water

Entry can sometimes be hard! Waves can be big and cliffs can be steep and slippery. But even in the worst of conditions I’ve never seen this bad entry from a dive boat! Read How to enter the water in Rough Sea Giant Stride or James Bond Roll Well except of a few of...

Best Places For Snorkeling

Pull out your fins, because NOW we’re guiding you to some of the best snorkeling locations worldwide! Now that you’re all set for snorkeling (if not, see our guide to snorkeling!), its time to consider where to go to get your flippers wet! This article contains five...

Scuba Diving While Pregnant

Pregnancy is a no-go for diving with all major organisations. But what’s the problem? Consult the standards of many of the dive organisations (in fact, all the major ones), and you’ll find that they list pregnancy among their contraindicators, the factors that...

Diving in Holland | Let’s go Diving in the Netherlands

Famed for its cheese, tulips and windmills, the Netherlands is also the country of dykes and water. In the province of Zeeland, hundreds of kilometers of dykes and dams protect the Netherlands from the sea. Together, these form the Delta Works – the largest underwater...

5 Tips For Your Next Dive Holiday

Make the most of your next dive trip with these 5 dive tips! Few divers get to dive as much as they want. Work, family obligations, and other “distractions” mean that we’re often limited to diving on trips of shorter or longer duration. For this reason, a number of...

Shark Finning: What is it?

Why would anyone ever kill a shark for its fins? And cut it off and let it drop to the bottom for a slow and painful death! There are many different type of animals that are hunted from beneath the ocean’s surface. From the larger fish to clams and oysters, many of us...

The Bad Diver and Aquatic Awareness

by Divein Staff | Environment, Scuba Articles

How many divers touch the Reef, the Corals or even the Fish when diving? Is it normal practice for divers, now a days, to touch and feel anything on their dive? Christina Christensen is a good friend of mine who is a recently qualified Open Water Scuba Instructor....

How to Make A Scuba Diving Checklist

How to make a diving checklist for a dive trip, to ensure you’re not forgetting anything. Diver’s Alert Network have started advocating their use as a means of avoiding mishaps that can be annoying at best, fatal at worst. As we’ve covered in a previous article here...

The Value Of A Scuba Checklist

Can a dive checklists help us avoid diving accidents? Divers Alert Network believes they might! Scuba diving is a tremendously safe activity. When considering the number of participants in diving activities worldwide, the number of serious accidents is extremely low....

Crazy Shark Attack – Whitetip Reef Shark Vs Moray Eel!

As you already know nature is no stranger to conflict and struggle to survive. And this is even more true for the animals we see underwater. Here a group of 3 Whitetip Reef Sharks attack a Giant Moray Eel, and in a brutal fight tearing it to pieces. Ironically enough...

A Case Of Nitrogen Narcosis

It was a fairly tranquil mid-morning dive. We’d arrived at Brothers Islands in the southern part of the Red Sea the evening before, and had already done one dive there. We weren’t the only boat at the islands this morning, with two boats from other companies moored...

Make a positive difference for the environment

by Thomas Grønfeldt Senger | Environment, Scuba Articles

Part II on how to be a more environmentally safe diver focuses on making a distinct, positive difference to the marine environment. In the first article in this series, we looked at ways of minimizing the negative impact that a diver can have on his or her local...

Sustainable Diving: A guide to becoming a sustainable diver

by Thomas Grønfeldt Senger | Environment, Scuba Articles

As divers, we’re blessed with the chance to see what few others see; an entire world under water, with unique geology, biology, and a life cycle all of its own. But we’ve also got a front row seat to the negative impact humans have on that world; coral bleaching,...

5 Questions To Ask Your Dive Insta-Buddy

Paired up with a new buddy? Here’s what you’ll want to ask them to make sure the dive goes well. If you don’t have a regular buddy, you’ll find yourself paired up with a new buddy, a so-called insta-buddy, on a number of dives and dive trips. Most of the time, these...

What is Nitrogen Narcosis: Like Diving With Martinis

What is nitrogen narcosis, how does it work, and what do you do about it?

Ice Overhead – Getting Started On Ice Diving

When the weather gets cold, many divers hang up their kit and hibernate for the winter. It doesn’t need to be like that, though, as we’ve already described here on Dive.in. One of the ways to dive through the winter is ice diving. In this article, we’ll take you...

A Scuba Diver Meets Mr. Reaper: It’s Not My Time Yet

Dive accidents occur – We can learn from every accident. Here’s a day of diving gone wrong.

Divers Unite to Protect and Conserve: Raised $14.000

You love the ocean and all of the life in it! You want to help the fragile ocean, but how? Here’s how three dive centers in Indonesia and the Philippines raised $14.000 The Funathon proved that when divers collaborate they can make a significant contribution to...

Top 5 Of The World’s Best Wrecks

Are you, like us, a complete wreck nut? Do you want unmatched wreck diving? Here are five of the best Wrecks you can dive! You might not agree with our list, but that’s okay, share your own list in the comments below! Diving spot top lists has always been somewhat...

China is banning shark finning! Huge step in the Right Direction

The biggest importer and consumer of sharks are now banning shark fin soup! This Might be The Best News All Year! China’s government has, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, made a list of 420 endangered species that is no longer legal to consume, import or...

Top 5 Family Vacation Dive Sites

Holiday with spouse and kids? And looking to get some diving done? Here’s a Top 5 of locations where both the diver and the family will be happy. Choosing the right location for your holiday is key to keeping everyone happy, divers and non-divers alike. Make sure that...

Diving in Jordan: 6 dive sites you should dive in Aqaba, Jordan

by Divein Staff | Jordan, Scuba Articles

It is one of the last places many people would ever think of diving. You’ve might never considered it yourself. But if it’s not on your list you are missing out on great diving. Aqaba, Jordan is a little known destination for divers, but it boasts some of the best...

Deep Diving: Egyptian Diver Makes Deepest Ever Dive

I often gets asked how deep do you dive? And I always answer: Diving is not about depth. But when you are diving passed 300 meters, well then it’s all about depth. This is what we can call deep diving. Here’s Thomas’ article on the deepest dive ever: An 11-year-old...

Shark Vs Shark: Great White Sharks Attacks Another Great White

It’s not often we see Shark Attacks, and it’s even rarer to see a shark attacking another shark. However, according to the narrator in the video, you’ve just witnessed a Giant Great White shark attacking a smaller Great white shark But is this a real Shark on Shark...

Experience Diving With Millions of Sardines in Moalboal, Philippines

Would you like to dive with millions of Sardines? See them swirling around in a huge Bait Ball! Most divers know about the famous sardine run in South Africa. This is where, during a limited time period usually in June and July, the sardines migrate through this area,...

Sharks Just Being Sharks

Let’s talk sharks! Reading the reports of two women attacked by a Great White recently in their kayaks got me thinking about the balance between humans in the water and sharks feeding. According the USA Today report: What experts believe was a great white shark took a...

Shark Encounters: A Family Affair

When I mention getting in the water with sharks on purpose, I often get asked if I have a death wish. As a shark conservationist and professional videographer, I spend a lot of time in the water with these amazing animals and feel excitement every time I get to slip...

The Three BCD’s – The Outer, the Inner and the Mental one!

Want to master your buoyancy? Then look beyond your inflator and deflator button! Buoyancy is in many ways the essential skill of scuba diving! Important, and yet very tricky to master, it has become the hallmark of a truly great diver. The reason it is so difficult...

10 Things every Scuba Diver needs to know

There are 10 important things that each and every diver should know. Read them and share!

Deep Diving: Rules, Recommendations And Fun Facts

How deep do you dive? It’s often the first question a diver gets. And what is the correct answer:

A Shark Tribute: The 12 Best Shark Pictures

To all the shark lovers around the world, here is our tribute to the sharks. It’s our way of celebrating this incredible animal in all its glory. We’ve scattered the whole internet to find the best shark pictures for you. Great White shark This is how we know the...

What are the differences between snorkeling, free diving and skin diving?

by Thomas Grønfeldt Senger | Scuba Articles, Snorkeling

Ever thought of diving without a tank? Exploring the reef, free of all the heavy gear! Here’s the different ways it can be done and what can scuba divers learn from those disciplines? What are the differences between snorkeling, free diving, skin diving, Scuba diving...

Fish Are Friends – And Food!

What do you think about diving without any fish? Not that interesting right? Choosing sustainable fish is important if we want to maintain healthy fish populations. As divers, we should lead the way. Plenty more fish in the sea The old saying that “there are plenty...

Obama Proposes Largest Ever Marine Sanctuary!

A marine sanctuary to cover nearly 782,000 square miles. US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday the 17th of June that he will be proposing expanding a current marine sanctuary. The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, taking it from its current 87,000 square...

Shark eaten by Giant Moray Eel

Sharks are usually the apex predator in the ocean, but this white tip reef shark meets its match. In this incredible video you’ll see a shark fighting for its life against a giant Moray eel. Learn The Truth About Sharks Right Here In times where sharks are fighting...

A Complete Guide to Diving in Thailand

by Torben Lonne | Scuba Articles, Thailand

TORBEN LONNE I've had the fortune of living and teaching diving in Thailand. And fell in love with this place. For holiday-makers, backpackers, and avid scuba divers, diving in Thailand is a worthwhile treat, offering some of Asia’s best dive spots. Thailand is known...

The $400,000 Artificial Reef Project that didn’t happen

Why should a diver care about corruption? If it’s not your taxes that disappear then why care? Here’s why: it’s the ocean that suffers. At DIVE.in we recently found out that the environmental agency in the Philippines has utilized over $400,000 to pay for cellphone...

Great Barrier Reef is closing for all divers

Did you ever get to dive at Great Barrier Reef? If not it just might be to late now as Australia is banning all diving at the reef. We ask: is this fair? This was of cause an April fools joke - Great Barrier Reef are (to the best of our knowledge) not closing....

Dive guide Scares Puffer fish to get it to puff up

This video was shared to DIVE.in on our Facebook page with a question, if this was dangerous behavior. When I saw this I got so angry, not on the person who shared it, but on the dive guide. He clearly wanted to put on a show for his guests, and therefore decided to...

Scuba diving with bull sharks

They come every year. From the end of November until March Playa del Carmen in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, becomes home to the Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus Leucas). They love warm shallow waters so they make their home fairly close to the shores of the town beach of Playa...

How to place your tank for perfect buoyancy: Tank up or down

There is one little trick to buoyancy control that many divers miss: where they place their dive tank! Buoyancy control is by far the most important skill for scuba divers. It makes it possible to maintain your position in the water column, it reduces air consumption,...

Diving in Rough Seas – When and how to dive in bad weather

Sometimes during a dive, conditions are just perfect. Sun is warm, sky is clear, sea is calm. Other times, not so much. Then what? First, just to make sure there are no misunderstandings: diving should be both fun and safe. If you’re ever in doubt as to whether a dive...

How to organize a cleanup

A how-to list of how to arrange your own underwater clean-up event. This article is a follow-up to our two-piece article on being a sustainable diver and make a positive difference for the environment. Among the advice given was “organize a cleanup”, but a lot of...

Dive Deck Etiquette: Learn how to behave on a dive boat

Going on a boat dive? Consider these rules for keeping everything running smooth between you, the other divers, and the crew. Most divers will at some point in their dive careers find themselves on a boat trip. A number of dive locations cannot be reached without one....

Shark Series – The Lemon Shark

Here's all you need to know about the Lemon Shark It's closely related to the great white sharks. Lemon sharks are sturdy, powerful and can grow up to 3 meters (10 feet). But relax and do not panic when you see one during your dive. Lemon sharks do not attack humans....

Christmas Diving – Merry Christmas to all Scuba Divers

So the holidays are upon us and it’s time for the annually dive around the Christmas tree, diving with Santa or just a Christmas day dive. All around the world divers are jumping in the water to experience a holiday dive. Dive operators are offering Liveaboard trips...

Scuba Diving Movie Review: The Frogmen (1951)

This classic, daring-do film about the U.S. World War II combat swimmers, is great entertainment, even if it is showing its age. I recently discovered this movie classic, and I must admit I was a bit skeptical. I mean a dive movies about valiant Navy divers, filmed in...

Underwater Portrait: Rejuvenate a cancer Survivors Life

Upon being diagnosed with cancer, a person will become feeling uncertain, scared, depressed and confused. This is what Erena Shimoda observed after volunteering with the American Cancer Society. Since Shimoda was an experienced diver, she thought she would help out by...

Shark Series: Wobbegong Shark

The Wobbegong shark is actually a species of 12 sharks in the Orectolobidae-family, all known under the layman’s term “carpet shark”. Due to the growths around the mouths of the ones found in the western Pacific they are also commonly referred to as the beard. The...

How to Open a Dive Resort – Three Months in

We have been following Sohpie and Simoens prosess of Opening a Dive resort, here three month in you can follow the everyday life of the new dive resort owners: We have now been open for three months, it has flown by! We have had 20 guests ranging from backpackers to...

Underwater Scooters: Put some speed to your dives with a DPV

Diver Propulsion Vehicles, or DPV’s among friends, have been around for years. They first started out with military and commercial divers, needing to cover large areas quickly, but they have since moved into the realm of recreational divers. The fun facts Mostly used...

Fluorescence Night Diving Part 2 – Reef Conservation

If you don’t know what Fluorescence diving is, check out the previous article in the Fluorescence Night Diving series or check out the video: Fluorescence is not only observed in corals, but also in many other marine organisms such as e.g. tunicates, barnacles,...

What is Fluorescence Night Diving

Fluorescence night dives (or “fluo diving” for short) is also known as “fluoro dives” or “glow dives” have grown increasingly popular recently. More and more dive centres offer fluo diving, and more and more vendors for the necessary equipment appear on the market. A...

INVASIVE SPECIES! Guide to identify impostor creatures while Diving

The invaders are here. Yes they are. But this time they don’t wear horned helmets like the mighty Vikings, not even a black pirate patch that allows you to identify them as the evil invader to be fought. In the animal world, invaders arrive quietly but steadily, make...

Become a Scuba Hero – One dive at a time

Let’s be a hero! Okay, let’s be a hero minus the tight-fitting costume. Most likely you have seen videos circulating on the internet showing how several marine species, entangled with fishing nets or hooks, are saved by brave divers that spotted the troubled animal,...

Want a life change: Become a scuba diver

The year 2008 was a big turning point in my life. After living in the UK for almost eleven years working 9 to 5 office jobs or other jobs that did not really fulfill me, I decided to leave and change my life once and for all. What was I going to do? I had absolutely...

How to Open a Dive Resort – Part 2: Nomad Divers Bangka is Open!

Our first guests arrived a week before our official opening of Nomad Divers Banka Dive Resort. You can also read part one: how we build our own dive resort. We were ready for the guest so we gave them a 10% discount. On the day of arrival I stayed to help clean and...

How to Open a Dive Resort

I wish I had someone to tell me the answer! I have wanted to run my own dive business probably since I started diving. Working as an instructor in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and Fiji and returning to the UK to study and work in between. I have worked for a...

Diving in Europe: 10 Best Dive Sites

What makes Europe such a good Dive Destination? It might be the diversity of coral from North to South! The thousand of Ship Wrecks scattered all over! Or the brilliant mix of big and small life! Europe is well known for the majestic landscapes, old architecture,...

Scuba Diving with Sidemounts: What is it?

Is sidemount just a fad, or should we all move our cylinders off to the side? What is a sidemounted scuba unit? If you’re a regular diver who dives in popular locations from time to time, you have very likely seen a novel site recently: SCUBA divers without any dive...

Shark Feeding: Good or Bad?

They say that “shark feeding” is a good thing. Good for sharks and that it also spreads awareness about the safety of sharks and their habitat. So should we support shark feeding? This topic has been controversial for several years. Some say it changes the biological...

No jobs for Divemasters here! – Diary of a Divemistress

After my Divemaster course I returned to the UK to begin my University degree in Social Anthropology. The following summer I had four months off Uni, so I decided to head to the beautiful island of Koh Tao, Thailand, famous for its all-round dive obsession! This...

Diving myths debunked

Diving, with all its adventure and excitement, is ripe with myths and misconceptions. In the following, we’ll take a look at a few of these, and see if they hold water. At Dive.in, we don’t just tell the myths, we put them to the test! As an instructor and lifelong...

Living the Divemaster Life – Diary of a Divemistress

I started my Divemaster course during weekends whilst I was a volunteer English teacher living in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia. What an amazing place to live! The weather was always hot, the food cheap and tasty in the foodcourts, and people friendly! Fun and...

How I became a Divemaster – Diary of a Divemistress

In 2004 I finished sixth form and decided to have a GAP year before starting University. I went to an organization to become a volunteer English teacher, and requested that they send me anywhere that was ‘completely different’. They told me that I would be posted in...

Cold Water Diving: Taking The Plunge Into The Cold

For many divers, diving is a definite summer thing, associated with warm water, sandy beaches, and tropical fish. Once winter hits, these divers either flee to other warmer destinations or simply hang up their kit and hibernate, waiting for warmer weather. But it...

The Five Best Diving Films

We all get landlocked from time to time, due to weather, work, or other unwelcome distractions from diving. And for diving liveaboards and holidays, you want something to do after the night dive and dinner is done. Que dive films. Diving has captured the imagination...

When tragedy strikes – Cave Diving Accident