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Next-Gen Fins: Mares Introduces The X-Stream Fins

August 26, 2010

Is is a full blade fin? Is it a split fin?….It’s the new X-Stream fin from Mares. Looking nothing like traditional scuba fins we’re used to seeing, the Mares X-Stream fins look more like they arrived from the future. A result of some award winning design and technology, the new Mares fin gets it’s sleek [...]

Dive The Neptune Memorial Reef, An Underwater Cemetery

August 25, 2010

The term ‘Burials at sea’ have taken on a brand new meaning in Miami, Florida. The Neptune Memorial Reef is not your average cemetery, but the first of it’s kind underwater cemetery. Situated about 45 feet beneath the ocean’s surface the cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches is not only a great final [...]

Diving Marine Life Guides: The Eel Appeal

August 24, 2010

Scuba divers, for as long as we can remember have had a fascination with eel sightings. We’ve heard divers narrate their giant eel or other eel encounters post-dive with just as much gusto as shark sightings are expressed. Often sighted concealed in their labyrinthine lairs, with only their heads peeking out from the rocky shadows [...]

A Guide to Dive Site Terrain Terminology

August 23, 2010

Dive Sites are often named after oceanic landforms or geographical terrain features that the site is located on. Thus it become helpful for Scuba Divers to understand the various terminologies to help them better understand their dive site. Below is a list of common underwater terrain features used to describe scuba diving sites. Seamount Seamounts [...]

Scuba Tips: Fine Tuning Your Buoyancy

August 22, 2010

In past posts we’ve discussed the fundamentals of buoyancy control, looked at tips to achieve neutral buoyancy and even shed light on how to perform a weight check in order to determine the correct amount of weights one should wear when diving to achieve that buoyancy. But buoyancy still remains and issue for many divers, [...]

Scuba Gear: A Guide To Scuba Reels

August 21, 2010

Scuba Reels aren’t your average fishing reels, but rather an important piece of scuba equipment especially in technical, wreck and cave diving. Reels and safety lines are a tried and true way for divers to return to their starting point. By simply anchoring a line to a point just outside the cave opening or at [...]

Dive Cayman Brac the Caribbean’s Wall Diving Capital

August 20, 2010

Cayman Brac is a small island just 19km (11.8 miles) long and 2km (1.2 mi) wide that forms one of the three Islands of the Cayman Islands located just south of Cuba in the Caribbean. Grand Cayman is the largest of the three, and just 100 miles or so northeast of it lays Little Cayman [...]

Can You Identify These Fish Species?

August 19, 2010

Take our quiz to find out just how well your fish identification skills are. See how many fish you can name from the pictures below – * Photo Credits: photos by M. Christian Selfridge, BlueBeyond, richard ling, alfonsator, loloieg, Boogies with Fish, TGIGreeny, glintle , doug.deep, PacificKlaus and Nataraj Metz on flickr

A Guide to Rash Guards

August 18, 2010

A rash guard, also known as a rashie, or a rash vest, is a tightly-fitted garment made from either lycra, nylon or polyester, that is specifically designed for athletic wear or water sports to prevent the upper body from chaffing or getting rashes. Originally designed to prevent surfers from chaffing or grazing their skin against [...]

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