ScubaGadget - The Deep Background on Scuba

Ok, I could whine because I just bought my DC600 in December, but I will keep my professional demeanor. Now I want one of these. The new SeaLife DC800 is faster on the draw with shutter response time of .01 second and quicker to start up. Besides being 8 megapixal, a big change with this model is ergonomics. The [...]

Billed as the world’s first luxury dive computer, the Sea Instrument from Linde Werdelin Design Studios has a transflective color screen with the display covered by sapphire crystal glass and is designed to be unscratchable and extremly readable in any underwater conditions. A state of the art 3-axis compass with waypoint bearing will help guide you [...]

“Shipwrecks and Maritime Tales of the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail” is an extreamly fine new website (http://www.ohioshipwrecks.org/) with a great interactive map that is a must see for divers and history buffs. The site has maps and detailed info for 277 wrecks. The project is part fo the to the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail, [...]

Deep Ambitions (May 3, 2008) is a free, four-hour aquatics career fair that showcases marine-related careers and dive lifestyles to youth ages 12 to 18. The fair will coincide with the Northwest Travel and Dive Expo held in Tacoma this weekend. Youth attending will be able experience jobs including dive instruction, traveling sales representatives, dive resort reviewers, marine journalists [...]

Be the first in your dive club to dive Venice. Not the California muscle beach but the real Venice in Italy; the one with those canals that stink on a hot day. It turns out that a pleasant side effect of some barriers, which were erected accross three channels accessing the lagoon to protect the city from flood [...]

A new website, http://www.divezero.com/, that aspires to be a “complete resource for the scuba world, including travel, dive gear, destinations, and the latest and greatest in the world of bubbles” has been launched. The site is heavy on flash and over done with just-because-we-can glitzy effects. Dive Zero.com is the main hub for connecting the [...]

Will Goodman, a scuba diver from Borehamwood, England  (near London) has set a world record for the longest open salt water scuba dive. The 33 and one half hour dive was in the waters of Gili Trawangan, Indonesia . He was trying to go 100 hours but apparently, according to his mother, “the cold got the [...]

Szilvia Gogh, a California girl diver from Budapest, Hungary has launched a website, http://www.miss-scuba.com/  to focus on dive travel and equipment for women. Maybe by design, the site is hard to read if you are a colorblind man (Colorblindness is predominantly a men’s disorder.). The site offers travel and equipment tips and articals from fellow [...]

The dive magazine, Nortwest Dive News, who’s slogan is “we know diving cold,” is sponsoring a show that may get nothwest divers to doff their drysuits and try a tropical destination for a change. But the Northwest Dive & Travel Expo  is much more that that. Besides giving divers and non-divers the chance to connect [...]

GirlDiver.com is a Seattle company dedicated to promoting the scuba lifestyle for women of all ages worldwide. Besides their website which has a fun clothing line, they teach a range of Scuba courses design specifically for women. “Prima GirlDiver”, Cindy Ross had trouble finding rental gear for her classes that fit the needs of the [...]