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This course builds on your skills as primary and secondary care providers and focuses on developing your instructional abilities
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PPB Speciality
6 February
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Divers who've mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart...
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How the male angler fish gets completely screwed... girls rule :)
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Funniest Scuba Diving Storie ever...
Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy. Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana . He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.
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Most Outrageous Dive Stories
What It's Like.... To Search for a Dead Body
By: Chuck Ford
In my heavy vulcanized rubber drysuit, I'm sweating in the heat of an early summer day. As the boat slows I brace myself, and a team member helps with my fins.
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Super Squids?
There are more than 300 species of squid, but the female giant squid can grow to 43 feet (13 meters)! Some squid can swim up to 25 miles / 40km per hour - as fast as some sharks (but only in short spurts). |
Treasure Hunt anyone?
The most valuable shipwreck was discovered by the late Mel Fisher, a famous 20th-century treasure hunter. In 1985, Mel found the Nuestra Senora de Atocha off the Key West coast of Florida. The ship carried 36 tons of gold and silver, and 70 lbs. of emeralds when it went down in a hurricane in September of 1622. |
Shipwreck lost 100 years Discovered nearly completely intact in depths of Lake Superior A group of shipwreck hunters say they have found what appears to be the Henry B. Smith freighter that went down... Read More
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February Sodwana is legendary, Sunshine, warm flat seas awesome visibility, and expect the occasional Whale shark.... Those who have been there know and have done it more than once, and keep coming back.
We will be staying at Coral Divers is South Africa's best Dive Resort. Situated within the reserve it is geared towards an easy diving Holiday. The food is good, accommodation is great and best of all there is a range to fit everyone's budget. So let's get out there and do the real thing, book now for some serious fun!!!
Trip Cost Club Member Non Club
Tented 3 Night / 5 Dive R 1 565 R 1 720
Tented 3 Night / 3 Dive R 1 190 R 1 340
Tented 3 Night Non Diver R 390 R 540
Trip Upgrades Costs
Catered Package R 600 per person
Standard Cabin R 300 per person
Hut with Linen Toilet & Shower R 765 per person - Deluxe
Luxury Ensuite Cabins R 1110 per person - Ensuite
Singles supplements apply.
Additional Costs (Paid directly to Sodwana on arrival)
Parks Board Fees R 70 per night
Community levy R 5 gate once off
Sodwana Entrance R 30 gate entry once off
Non-Member Equipment Rental R 60 per item per day
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Pro - Dive Master - 28th February |
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Divemasters Wanted! Join the Tribe! Do you have a deep and abiding passion for diving? Or, do you merely love it with all of your heart? If so, you should consider doing what you love for a living: become a PADI Divemaster. When you Join the Tribe™ by becoming a PADI Divemaster, you align yourself with the largest and most respected dive tribe in the world-that of PADI Professionals. These are PADI Divemasters and Instructors sharing a passion for diving and an active concern for the health of the world's underwater habitats. PADI Divemaster Course Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water More Info |
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Buy a gift for your Valentine on the 12th to the 14th and stand a chance to SAVE up to 14%.
Pop one of our Valentines Balloons to reveal your discount!.
Excludes: Courses & Course Material, Camera's & Camera Accesories and Trips. |
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Open Water Course 1 February
Scubaversity is a whole new world of experiences and opportunities, above and below the water.We offer far superior training with outstanding staff and the best purpose built facility in the country. The Dive Club has the biggest following an enthusiasm for diving, an incredible social aspect and proud members, assuring you of first-class training facility. We're a Lifestyle... Book NowMore Info |
Advanced Course 8 February
Move beyond the Open water Diver level and take one step closer to master scuba diver - the ultimate recreational diving rating, The advanced course is designed to allow you different experiences in diving without the task loading such as mask clearing and regulator recovery.
The training is focused on diving not skills. It is fun and will make you a better diver in only five dives!
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Search & Recovery
11 February
Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost "treasure"? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up...
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Night Speciality
13 February
Night diving is unique in the sense that it opens a whole new perspective to diving. It is something not a lot of divers get to experience, due to preconceived perceptions of diving when it is dark. In actual fact you will never be more exposed to the palette of color that the ocean can offer...
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Nitrox Speciality
27 February
Mother Nature provided the planet Earth with a Nitrox atmosphere known as air. She never said that air was the best breathing medium for divers. Here, as in many other fields of endeavour, human beings have used their knowledge of natural law to go one step beyond what nature...
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SS Thistlegorm is one of the best wreck dive sites in the world. Take this 4-minute dive with us and visit a British armed Merchant Navy ship that was sunk by German bombers during World War II. |
RED SEA NEW YEARS PATRY
5* Novotel Palm Hotel in Central Na'ama Bay. 26 December - 4 January
Only R16950.00 or R1695.00 per month for 10 months.
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Imagine yourself in one of the most beautiful and famous deep-sea diving paradises in the world. Your dreams of crystal clear water, magnificent corals, exotic under water flora and rare tropical fish all come true when you visit Sharm El Sheikh on the Southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
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Testimonial from Devon Mc'Alpine |
My life as an Intern at Scubaversity
I started diving way way back, in February 2011, on a small island known to the world as Australia. To be more specific, the Dive Shack on Noarlunga Beach, Adelaide, South Australia!
Anyway, moving on... After my trip I came back home to the land of the Saffas and I went on a quest to find a dive shop somewhere, anywhere that would employ me because I was now a diver and I wanted to be a beach bum, never mind just an instructor! I went to every single dive shop in Jo'burg, and got turned away from every single dive shop in Jo'burg... that is until I happened to drive past what looked like a diving logo. My mom basically forced me to make an entry and told me that if I didn't ask I would never know their answer.
The diving logo that I was looking at turned out to be the official PADI logo, and so began my very first connection with Scubaversity.
And yes that's right, it was a complete fluke.
I did the usual routine, walked in and asked if I could have a job. And once again I was politely turned down by one of the interns. I thought, "No harm, no fowl", and didn't think much more of it as I walked out, until Jason caught...
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Last month "Diving passport to 2014" social photos
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Scubalab - 60sec on the Chromis
SCUBAPRO's Chromis dive computer makes the most of its watch-sized display. It has large numerical readouts and a mode indicator at the right of the screen
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Aggressive Mantis Shrimp Sees Color Like No Other
The colorful mantis shrimp is known for powerful claws that can stun prey with 200 lbs. (91 kilograms) of force.
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Diving Super Heroes
Ten Omani divers have taken a pledge to save the coral reefs in Musandam. Starting next month, every fortnight the team will dive into the waters and assess the condition of the coral reefs in Musandam as part of their efforts to preserve them...
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10 Sea Creatures With Amazing Disguises
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10 Strangest Defense Mechanisms In Nature
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Tips for dealing with strong currents
Some of the best dive sites in the world are also home to some of the ocean's strongest currents..
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Tips to Stay Down Longer Extend Your Scuba Dives
Ah, endless scuba dives... No matter what type of scuba diving we do, it's every scuba diver's goal to remain underwater as long as possible.
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Boat Diving Tricks
of the Trade
Perhaps the easiest diving you'll ever do, short of rolling off your balcony from an over water bungalow in Tahiti, will be from a dive boat. Dive boats come in all shapes and sizes, from small inflatable skiffs to large liveaboard vessels and everything in between.
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Tips Get Neutrally Buoyant
If you're doing it right, scuba diving is usually anything but strenuous, and experienced divers know that maintaining neutral buoyancy is the key to easy diving.
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Scuba Gear Care and Maintenance Tips
Whether you've only seen a scuba diver in action or you're already a diver yourself, you know that diving is an equipment intensive activity.
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25 Tips For Easier Scuba Diving
The following 25 tips will make your diving experiences much easier and much more fun. Read More
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Test Your Scuba Knowledge
Take up the challenge and take the quiz. Take the Quiz
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A scuba diver is 1,000 feet below surface when his oxygen tank runs out of air. The diver doesn't make it up for nearly two or more hours, yet he does not die when his oxygen tank runs out.
Why didn't the diver die when his oxygen tank ran out and how did he reach the surface?
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The diver was already dead when his oxygen tank ran out and his body floated up to the surface
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