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Dolphins playing in the bow wave of Simply Diving's RIB boat

29 May 2016

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The Season in Spain for Diving with Dolphins

By Courtney Kaye, PADI Instructor, Simply Diving Marbella

There aren’t many things out there that we can genuinely say we never tire of experiencing. One of them has to be spying a sleek dorsal fin cutting through the water’s surface – no matter if it is your first, or five hundredth, encounter! There are many perks to my job as a PADI scuba diving instructor here at Simply Diving Marbella. Being joined by a pod of dolphins en route to a dive site is undoubtedly a favourite.
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13 Oct 2015

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A Psychedelic Trip With The Smallest Of Friends

By Simon Bell, Simply Diving Dive Operations Manager

They are among the world’s most vibrantly-coloured species of marine beings, are often no bigger than your thumbnail and have spawned a global obsession of cult proportions: Meet the humble sea slug…More

7 Apr 2015

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A Giant Fish By Any Other Name

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.More

26 Feb 2014

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LOVE ON THE COSTA: The Strange and Wonderful World of Octopus Sex

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…More

13 Aug 2013

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Climbing The Final Rung

By Simon Bell, Simply Diving Dive Operations Manager

It feels like a lifetime and a half away when I first learnt to float through inner space, blowing my virgin bubbles and marvelling at creatures I had only met before in books, on the tele or through a cheap, steamed-up mask on a childhood snorkelling adventure in Cornwall, south west England.More

PADI Tec 40 technical diving course in Spain

13 Apr 2013

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Rolling In The Deep: The Time For Tec

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…More

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