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Profile of a Responsible Dive Guide

Written By Topics: Scuba Diving

Today I read a blog from a photographer named Gary Hart. He shoots breathtaking images of nature especially focusing on Yosemite and the western US. His message was to literally watch your step so as not to damage our fragile natural world while taking pictures. I commented that we face the same issue underwater with [...]

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Responsibilities of the Dive Guide

Written By Topics: Scuba Diving

Yesterday I posted some of my favorite diver etiquette tips. I didn’t do it to sound all Martha Stewart but because often divers don’t realize the impact their behavior has on other divers and those that serve them while on a dive adventure. But what about the other side of the coin… what are the [...]

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Top 10 Scuba Diving Etiquette Tips for your Next Diving Vacation

Written By Topics: Scuba Diving

  Wanna be liked on your next dive trip? Here are a few of my favorite tips above and below so that people will want to dive with you again!   Above the water…   1. Be organized and on time. Don’t be the one constantly running back to your hotel room for your fins, [...]

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Dive Travel Tips from Mantagirl

Written By Topics: Practical Travel Strategies, Scuba Diving

We spend an average of 330 days away from home and have logged 12,000 dives between us. That means we have had a lifetime of “learning experiences” regarding packing and dive travel. You do it wrong enough times you learn to do it right! Here is a sampling of a few of our favorite tips [...]

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Diving it Differently

Written By Topics: Scuba Diving

Diving it Differently   Today we dived a site we’ve dived a couple of times before. It’s called Mike’s Point. It’s a beautiful place and each time I dive there, I am awed once again at this amazing blue planet we live on. I marvel at the diversity below. I know there are over 22,000 [...]

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One of the best conversations I never had

Written By Topics: Life On & Off the Road, Scuba Diving

One of the biggest fears in travel is arriving in a place not speaking the local language. I think this fear often steers travelers in the direction of same language countries. After all, how much easier for it for an American to travel to Australia than Austria? Americans of course, tend to be among the [...]

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Turkey Day 2012 – Dominica Adventure

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Scuba Diving

            Dominica – the Adventure Island 2012 Turkey Day in the Tropics November 17-24 2012 Make a Reservation- email sharkman@globaldivingadventures.com    It’s lucky number 13! Our 13th year of the incomparable Turkey Day in the Tropics! This year, it’s an all out adventure on one of the most magnificent Caribbean [...]

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Whale Sharks with Global Diving Adventures

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Scuba Diving

Whale Shark Snorkeling, SCUBA Diving and a Beautiful Villa too! *Snorkel with dozens of Whale Sharks – The largest gathering in the world! *SCUBA Dive the coral reefs and wrecks of Isla Mujeres, Mexico *Chill out at our MAGNIFICENT PRIVATE VILLA pool or hit the beach! This is a TRIO of adventure with luxury to [...]

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SCUBA diving Mozambique

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Scuba Diving

SCUBA diving Mozambique: An Adventure Diving the Wild Frontier of Tofo Beach   SCUBA Diving Mozambique is Great For: *adventurous divers wanting something off the beaten track *big megafauna – humpback whales, whales sharks and mantas *healthy fish populations *possibly the best white sand beaches in the world   SCUBA Diving Mozambique is Not Great [...]

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Thanksgiving Traditions ~ Turkey and Scuba Diving?

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Scuba Diving

In September 2010, I wrote a blog called, Tradition . I began the post, “There’s something about tradition….something comforting, something satisfying.  It’s a feel good moment that you’ve carried on something important into the future.  It’s a way of belonging.”   Kind of like Halloween and pumpkins, or like Christmas and Carrols, some things are [...]

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