Diving in the Costa del Sol

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…

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 […]

24 Aug 2009

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Straight In At The Deep End

By Simply Diving Instructor Becky Wood Well, it’s a few months now since I arrived here in sunny Spain from Australia, and its been a pretty hectic summer… so far! My first day was a big jump into the deep end as there were nine Discover Scuba Divers – not something that we ever came […]

30 Jun 2009

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From Losing A “Missing Diver” To Finding A “Mola Mola”: A Month In The Life Of A DMT

By Divemaster Trainee Dan Nelmes I look back every so often and think just how far I’ve come in the short space of time since joining Simply Diving’s team. Who’d have thought that I’d make it to PADI Rescue Diver? And to top it off, going onto the next step as a Divemaster Trainee. It’s […]

28 Apr 2009

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And Who Said Running A Dive Centre Was Easy?

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!