Health and Wellness

You’ve signed up to your eLearning and are all ready to get start your diving adventure. But how will you make the most of the course? There’s a lot to learn and there will surely be some [...]

In the PADI Open Water Diver course, divers learn that pregnant women should not dive. Avoiding diving while pregnant or while trying to get pregnant is also included in the guidelines of the [...]

Feeling calm, rested and positive is the first step towards great dives. If you’re a little anxious (perhaps you’re starting out, diving someplace new, or just worried about a tricky skill) then [...]

How can the zen of freediving positively affect our health and well being? The answer may be blue health, a trend that’s growing worldwide with more and more people finding the soothing effects [...]

You surface from the dive and make your way back onto the boat. You start to remove your scuba equipment and, looking around the deck, you see wet and happy people. Everyone is chatting and [...]

The sea holds many new experiences; these can be both wonderful and terrifying. Even more daunting can be the fears we face within ourselves in learning to dive: failure and rejection are always [...]

Written by Laura Walton YOU: “I’m learning to scuba dive” THEM: “Wow, you must be really good at holding your breath!” YOU: “Actually, no, the first rule of scuba diving is that you keep [...]

Written by Laura Walton Descending into the depths on a scuba dive we can hear only bubbles.  We may also notice that the silence moves from the water and hushes the noise in our heads.  Mind [...]

In honor of World Autism Day, we spoke to divers and families affected by autism about their experience with scuba diving. Though there isn’t a lot of research about the benefits of scuba diving [...]

My name is Gary Green, I was a rifleman and I spent 4 months fighting from a patrol base in Southern Helmand province, Afghanistan. A quick insight; in those four months 5 of my friends became [...]