VIDEO: Taking the PADI Freediver Course

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Freediving in Hawaii Photo: Kris Landers Click to display the embedded YouTube video PADI Freediver Instructor Kris Landers traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii with Demi O’connor to teach Madison Stewart (Shark Girl Madison) and underwater filmmaker Perrin James the PADI Freediver course in Kona. Freediving is about inward power, discipline and control. You don’t need to be a professional […]

Megalodon Shark Facts – The Largest Known Ocean Predator

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megalodon shark teeth Though estimated to be extinct for nearly 2.6 million years, the Megalodon is said to be one of the largest known predators to ever swim the ocean deep. These incredible creatures would reach nearly 59ft (18m) in length, weighed about 65 tons, and would eat whales as part of their diet. The largest estimated jaw […]

Shark Attack Survivor and Shark Advocate Mike Coots

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Click to display the embedded YouTube video When Mike Coots was 18, he was attacked by a tiger shark while bodyboarding off the coast of Kauai. He lost most of his right leg, and nearly lost his life. An average person might decide to avoid the ocean, and renounce all sharks as bloodthirsty man-eaters, but […]

Close Focus: The Manta Ray World by Night

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manta ray night dive in kona hawaii Written by Douglas Seifert, World Editor, DIVE Magazine Making compelling, interesting and/or beautiful images of natural history subjects is challenging at the best of times; making those images in the ocean environment takes the process to an entirely different level. It requires preparedness, patience, determination, planning, some degree of luck, competent diving skills, and sensory […]

7 Reasons to Become a PADI Pro

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PADI Diver Sure, becoming a PADI Pro can bring paychecks in paradise, but it also opens the door to so much more. Here’s what else you can gain.   7. Find Out What You’re Truly Capable Of Becoming a scuba instructor isn’t easy—otherwise everyone would do it. It tests limits mentally and physically. Some of the physical […]