Events – National Watersports Festival and Leeds Triathlon

Speak Loudly

Ever leave a cylinder standing unattended at a dive site? Surface from a dive and prop your mask atop your head like a pair of sunglasses? Leave your snorkel in your dive bag instead of wearing it? If PADI® Pros do these things – things that are outside the practices we use to train divers...

Seabather’s Eruption

Written by DAN Staff Part of the job (and sometimes part of the fun) when working with new divers is dispelling myths and misunderstandings about diving and the dive environment. One misunderstanding, and misnomer, you can clear up is about “sea lice,” which should more accurately be called seabather’s eruption. True sea lice are fish...

Achievements and Milestones

In 2017, you and your fellow PADI® Members helped improve the lives of more people than ever by opening their eyes to the magic of the underwater world. Dedicated PADI Pros issued more certifications than ever in PADI’s history, supported by the ever-growing number of PADI Dive Centers and Resorts around the world. As a...

Technology Driven Travel Trends

Written by Ted Alan Steadman The Digital Age may not be new, but changing technology opens doors while closing others. Maybe nowhere else is that more evident than in the world of travel. Technology’s influence on travel has made it among the digital revolution’s most impacted industries. Travel agents of the 1980s and 1990s gave way...

Reef Restoration at Gili Lankanfushi – “Mahuge Veshi”

Home to more than a quarter of all marine species, coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. But these reefs are now under threat. Of the many problems facing coral reefs, rising sea temperatures due to global warming are perhaps the most serious. In 1998, a complex climate event in...

From Doomed Voyager to Victorious Wreckage

The story beneath one of the most famous dive sites in the Maldives Part One When Mohamed Saeed first stepped aboard MV Victory as the Chief Electrical Officer, little could he have known that it would be his first and final voyage on the doomed cargo ship. “I was one of the last to be...

Tec Diving in the UAE

The East Coast of the UAE is mainly known, among divers, for the beauty of its recreational dives, however, for those certified as PADI TecRec Divers, there are a number of hidden wrecks worth a visit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIcKIpqcHDI Inchcape 1 Normally classified as a recreational dive, this is also a great wreck for honing your Tec...