Buddy Dive Resort Bonaire announced last week that next year it will unveil a pair of new live-aboard scuba dive vessels. The Buddy Dive Liveaboard vessels, “m.v. Wolf Buddy” and “m.v. Darwin Buddy”, will be offering luxurious scuba diving trips with excellent service in combination with premium quality underwater sites. The vessels will operate in the Galapagos Islands. Read more…  Read More →

SEA&SEA announced this week that it has launched a brand new compact digital camera set, the DX-GE5. The DX-GE5 is SEA&SEA’s next generation of underwater digital camera systems combining a waterproof digital camera and underwater housing depth rated to 180ft.  The DX-GE5 achieves a decisive balance between style, performance and value, which are what today’s scuba diving photographers are asking for. Read more…  Read More →

SEA&SEA announced this week that it has launched a brand new compact digital camera set, the DX-GE5. The DX-GE5 is SEA&SEA’s next generation of underwater digital camera systems combining a waterproof digital camera and underwater housing depth rated to 180ft.  The DX-GE5 achieves a decisive balance between style, performance and value, which are what today’s scuba diving photographers are asking for. Read more…  Read More →

NOAA’s Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, in partnership with Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF), will host an inaugural series of lionfish derbies starting in September. Divers who remove lionfish from sanctuary waters will be eligible for more than $10,000 in cash and prizes. Read more…  Read More →

Fantasy Island Resort on Roatan, Honduras has just announced a special package that truly sounds too good to believe. According to officials from the resort, the package is a seven-night all-inclusive package (lodging, meals, diving and fun!) for just $499. Read more…  Read More →

In an ongoing effort to expand its reach to the general public, as well as the diving, medical, scientific and educational communities, Divers Alert Network® (DAN®) is announcing two information-sharing initiatives that will make the organization’s magazine, Alert Diver, and the scuba-related content it contains, available on a global level. Read more…  Read More →

FLORIDA KEYS – A Wreck Trek Passport Program spotlighting the Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail now awaits scuba divers visiting the Florida Keys. Certified divers can explore the destination’s most appealing feature — a string of sunken vessels and artificial reefs — and be awarded for logging back-to-back wreck dives or dives on subsequent visits through Jan. 1, 2012. Read more…  Read More →

The following article, written by EMBUN MAJID of Malaysian publication, Star Online, talks about the closing of selected coral reefs in Indonesia due to recent coral bleaching. Several dive sites at two of the top diving destinations in the world — the Pulau Tioman marine park in Pahang and Pulau Redang marine park in Terengganu — are temporarily off-limits to divers and snorkellers until end-October. Read more…  Read More →

Scuba-Fun, the dive center located in the Wyland Whaling Wall building in Key Largo, has provided 10 students from Homestead with scuba diving lessons and PADI Open Water certifications. An underwater photo course at the National Geographic “Biobliz” last April sparked the 12 youths’ interest in scuba diving. However, they and their families were not able to afford scuba certification. Thus local photographer Tom Dailey, who... 

Today’s demanding lifestyle can make it challenging for some divers to remain active in the sport. Those same demands can also prevent divers from refreshing their dive knowledge when they are ready to start diving again. PADI has launched its latest eLearning program Scuba Tune-up Online. This new program is designed to help ease the barrier between divers and…  Read More →

By Lisa Mongy (DiverWire.com) – The Formula H2O circuit is cruising to Ft. Lauderdale for a pit stop at South Florida Diving Headquarters.  On Sunday, August 22, 2010, racers will be zooming around, doing laps on an underwater track circumnavigating the perimeter of the wreck Tracey.  In depths less than 65’, spectators can easily watch from the infield while hovering on the structure next to Discovery Channel crews filming the event.... 

Wetpixel is proud to announce the 2011 Raja Ampat Entrance Tag Design Contest. Enter your best images or graphic designs and have your image printed on the 5,000 park tags that will be attached to the BCDs of visiting divers. The author of the winning design also wins an all-inclusive 10-day dive holiday to Raja Ampat, Indonesia, for two! Read more…  Read More →

Dive Friends Bonaire is pleased to announce two new additions to its WebCam services, as well as an upgrade to its existing service.  Recently, two new Dive Friends Bonaire Web Cams went “on-line”; these cams provide an underwater view of the dive facility’s confined open water training area as well as a view of Kralendijk Harbor. Read more…  Read More →

For the fifth consecutive year, Tourism Corporation Bonaire and the entire island of Bonaire are proud to welcome the Wounded Warriors to their “home away from home” as they use SCUBA diving for rehabilitation and recreation from August 7th through 14th, 2010. Read more…  Read More →

The organizers of Tek Week have announced that a limited number of spots have just become available for this popular annual event. Read more…  Read More →