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Rolling In The Deep: The Time For Tec
Posted on April 13th, 2013 No comments
By Simon Bell, Simply Diving Dive Operations Manager
There was a time when a man first donned a rubber mask, looked beneath the waves and felt like a superhuman as he gazed at the alien world below.
Soon came apparatus that allowed a different man to stay underwater for a length of time without having to surface for a breath. He too felt like an astronaut or a being from another planet… Read the rest of this entry »
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A Giant Fish By Any Other Name
Posted on April 7th, 2013 1 comment
By Simon Bell, Simply Diving Dive Operations Manager
One of the most fascinating spectacles to greet scuba divers on the southern Spanish coast comes in the form of a marine species that – if it actually had a brain bigger than a peanut – would probably develop a serious case of identity crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
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LOVE ON THE COSTA: The Strange and Wonderful World of Octopus Sex
Posted on February 26th, 2013 1 comment
By Simon Bell, Simply Diving Dive Operations Manager
Look at the following photo and it’ll be hard not to miss a huge, eight-legged cephalopod atop a rock. Look even closer and the more taxonomically-minded among you will see it’s the humble Octopus vulgaris, or common octopus to the non sea-dweller.
But look even closer still and you’ll see a second octopus hiding under the rock… Read the rest of this entry »
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Marine Life Rescued As Divers Come Up Clean
Posted on May 23rd, 2010 1 comment
By Simply Diving PADI Instructor Dan Nelmes
HOW’S IT GOING DIVE FRIENDS..?
April 24th was a particularly important day for divers. Why, I hear you ask? Because all around the world, divers and dive companies got involved with Project AWARE’s Dive For Earth Day: One of the scuba diving world’s most important days in the calendar when we get the chance to clean up one of our favourite dive sites. Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s My Carribean Blood!
Posted on January 10th, 2010 3 comments
By Simply Diving’s Natasha Johnson Bell
Okay, so I am what one would officially term a ‘diving prude.’ As much as I love diving, I won’t do it in the dark, I never pee in my wetsuit and the water’s got to be hot. Yes, hot. Not warm, but hot. So as you can imagine, although I have the charms of the Mediterranean sea on my doorstep, my diving forays are limited to my bath tub and our heated pool.
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THE ULTIMATE GOAL
Posted on November 26th, 2009 No comments
By Simply Diving PADI Instructor Dan Nelmes
It’s happened. I finally did it. After much hard studying, intense lectures & enough cups of tea to drown an army, I made it to the end and achieved the ultimate goal that anyone who’s anyone in the diving community hopes to be: A PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. Read the rest of this entry » -
And Who Said Running A Dive Centre Was Easy?
Posted on April 28th, 2009 3 comments
By Simon Bell, Dive Operations Manager
I think I might have said that once, but never again. With an IDC well under way, new Divemaster interns about to start, new Instructors being recruited and Easter holidaymakers still arriving in their droves, the only place to escape has been… yes you’ve guessed it… underwater!