How Scuba Diving Can Make You Feel Great

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Two Divers Sometimes, we all just need a good ‘pick-me-up’. Here are just a few ways in which scuba diving can deliver the antidote to life’s ups and downs and help you feel great about yourself again. Relaxation Assuming you’re not jumping into the sardine run for a thrill-seeking challenge, the underwater world has a wonderfully calming […]

Blue Mind: The Healing Power of Water

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sunbeams shine down on a colorful coral reef Divers just know. They know they love the water, especially being under it. What they might not know is that water has tremendous healing power and there are demonstrable physiological reasons for this. Now, thanks to Wallace J. Nichols’ descriptively titled book Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, On, or Under […]

Four PADI Specialty Courses to Improve Your Shark and Ray Encounters

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We’ve been celebrating the recent success at CITES CoP17, where proposals to list all 13 species of sharks and rays (silky sharks, thresher sharks and devil rays) were accepted. With this good news and the resulting buzz across the scuba diving world, there’s no better time to make the most out of your dives with […]

The Healing Power of Scuba

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P.T. Hirschfield dives as if her life depended on it No one is more grateful for her PADI Open Water diver certification than P.T. Hirschfield. And the timing of the experience couldn’t have been more opportune. In 2010, the Australian traveled to the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, where she earned her first C-card. Shortly upon […]