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From snorkeling to dive instructing

Sharks, stingrays, barracudas, nudibranches, seahorse, dolphins, turtles, whales, gorgonias, annemonies, cleaning shrimps, moray eels, jacks… they are my colleagues, friends and business partners, mostly. In a normal year I spend more hours with them as for example on a subway.

Last lucky liveaboard trip in Layang Layang island

Layang Layang island located 300km northwest of Kota Kinabalu, you find Layang Layang, part of the disputed Spratly Islands.

The miracle of the night dives

When people starts their dive education, they still don’t know, that soon they gonna be underwater even in the dark nights, while others are already preparing the dinner or going out to bars... I have to tell you, that even with years of working in the dive industry, there is still something exciting to everyone, including instructors and dive guides.

Anchor Damage

As a dive shop, our top priority always seems to be to get people into the water and bring them back happy and safe. But, as a reef ecologist, and really just as any aquatic life enthusiast, there’s also a greater responsibility we don’t always think about. We need to protect the ecosystems that support not only the dive industry, but all maritime industries, and of course, an incredible amount of fish, invertebrate, plant, and microbial life.

Sea of Cortez – Spotlight on Nudibranchs

As new divers, we all want to see the big stuff : turtles, sharks, eels, and rays are the stars of the underwater world for a reason! But, as most of us progress, we start to notice and take an interest in the smaller and harder to spot ocean life. This passion for the small fish lifes is usually just referred to as macro.

Cayman's Islands are a long time favorite in the Caribbean sea and our fellow diver Alex experienced it last week and give us his report with a really nice video to give you an idea of to what to expect if you plan to go for a diving liveaboard with the newly and beautiful Cayman's Island Aggressor. Feel free to contact us for more information and recommendation. Enjoy the shoot ;-)

Nosy Be - This island located on the northwest coast of Madagascar, it is a small paradise for scuba diving. Water at 28 °C, generally with good visibility. The best time to dive there is in the morning, because it will gets wind up early in the afternoon.

Around Nosy Be you can find many dive sites, you can reach there by speed boat on average between 20 to 60 minutes from the mianland.

Manta Rays- the elegant species of the seas

The underwater world is host to hundreds of thousands of different species of life, but without a doubt the most elegant creature to grace our oceans is the Manta Ray. Manta being Portuguese for cloak, these dark winged creatures can be somewhat intimidating with their impressive wingspan effortlessly patrolling the seas.

Sea of Cortez & La Paz

Since we look forward to enjoy a wonderful time in the Sea of Cortez - the worldwide famous aquarium of diving, in a friendly and professional atmosphere for a long long time...

In October this year, we finally made it! Our Dive and Cruise team members went for an awesome dive trip to Sea of Cortez with a beautiful group from France.

Roaming Roatan

For many divers the Caribbean Sea is a dream destination, boasting beautiful clear waters, white sandy beaches and an array of different cuisine depending on where you travel. Some of the most renowned diving happens around “The Bay Islands” just off Honduras in Central America, they consist of three principle islands, Utila, Roatan and Guanaja.