Tag: scuba diving in Spain

  • The Season in Spain for Diving with Dolphins

    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…

  • A Giant Fish By Any Other Name

    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.

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

    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…

  • Rolling In The Deep: The Time For Tec

    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…

  • A Degree of Hard Work at Uni of Diving

    By Simply Diving Divemaster Trainee Kat Thorpe Hi everyone! As it’s coming to the end of the busiest part of the summer season here at Simply Diving and on the Costa del Sol, it’s the perfect opportunity to share my summer experiences with you all…