Tagged: PADI specialty

Sharks have a public-relations problem. Decades of movies, headlines, and very dramatic music have done a pretty good job convincing people that sharks are the thing we need to be afraid of in the...

A good dive buddy pays attention to the diver beside them. That sounds obvious, but not every diver moves through the water, handles equipment, communicates, enters the water, or solves problems in exactly the...

There is something undeniably cool about diving in a full-face mask. You get a wide field of view, your entire face is protected from the water, and you can breathe through your nose or...

There is something different about dropping down onto a wreck. Sometimes it is a ship that went down in a storm or an accident. Sometimes it was deliberately sunk to create an artificial reef....

You have taken photos underwater before. Some of them were pretty good. Some of them were blue. Very blue. Maybe there was a fish-shaped blur in there somewhere if we are being generous. The...

There are good reasons to go deeper. Maybe there is a wreck sitting below 100 feet. Maybe the interesting part of a wall is farther down. Maybe you are getting into offshore diving where...