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Destination Russia – Diving to experience

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Updated by Brandon Scott on <time class="updated" datetime="2014-04-22T05:29:54-07:00">April 22, 2014</time>
white sea - Russia I’m sure that before you starting reading this post Russia never came to mind as a place to go dive.   Sure it will never be a mass market dive destination, but I’m sure it will grow as one of those destinations that is the scuba equivalent of backcountry.   You might need a spirit of […]

How I Quit My Job to Become a Scuba Instructor

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Updated by Ashley Levy on <time class="updated" datetime="2019-01-16T13:54:59-08:00">January 16, 2019</time>
PADI Instructors Does your day to day grind have you wondering: what if I walked away from my job to become a scuba instructor? What would it be like to do something I love for a living? If you’ve ever considered trading in fluorescent lights for bio-flourescence, read on!  Today we meet two divers who quit their […]

Paralympic Athlete and PADI Divemaster Ryan Chalmers finishes the PUSH across Cayman Islands

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Updated by on <time class="updated" datetime="2012-11-29T10:09:24-08:00">November 29, 2012</time>
  On Saturday, 24 November 2012 Stay-Focused alumnus, Paralympian and PADI Divemaster Ryan Chalmers, pushed his racing chair across Grand Cayman, an 88 kilometre/55-mile route, in just over five hours. Push Across Cayman was an amazing event and represented the start of the Push Across America campaign, which will launch next spring. Chalmers championed this […]

Paralympic Athlete Ryan Chalmers on PUSH to Help Disabled Divers

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Updated by on <time class="updated" datetime="2012-11-28T13:14:13-08:00">November 28, 2012</time>
After competing in four T54 wheelchair racing events at the London Paralympic Games, Ryan Chalmers set his sights on changing the perception of disability sports as whole. He isn’t a disabled person who participates in sports; he’s a world class athlete, who also happens to have a disability. Taking his athletic ability underwater, Chalmers recently […]

White Whale Mimics Divers

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Updated by Brandon Scott
Watching the Minke Whales Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in California have found the mysterious voice telling divers to get out of the water. Researchers now believe that the voice is that of a teenage white whale called NOC. The researchers have suggested that the white whale may be attempting to make contact with the divers. Researchers […]