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Top 25 questions on Dive Travel, #15, how do I try scuba diving on my vacation?

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I am not a certified diver but I would like to try scuba diving.  What are my options on vacation? If you are not yet a diver but would like the opportunity to try diving while on vacation it’s a GREAT opportunity to see if you like it!  Here are a couple of things to [...]

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Top 25 Dive Travel Questions, #13 Live Aboard or Land Based?

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Should I dive land based or live aboard? THIS is the age old diving question isn’t it and why it is one of our top 25 most asked questions.  I think I would answer this question with more questions… Do you have a non diving partner/spouse? If so and they want to do ANYTHING besides [...]

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Top 25 Dive Travel Questions, #4 How do I pack to keep my luggage under 50 lbs with dive gear?

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On our list of the top 25 questions asked about dive travel, the luggage question is high on the list, especially with baggage fees going up and up and up! The first question is do you want to? Depending on the airline and the cost, it may simply be easier for you to mentally add [...]

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The Gift of Summer

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Summer always has a certain feel. It reminds me of the smell of the public library, when as a kid Mom would to pick out our summer reading books. After the difficulty of limiting my selections down to five or six, then I could spend the entire day laying in the grass savoring other people’s [...]

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Airline Baggage Fees – Are they ever going to end?

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A Very Brief History of Airline Baggage Fees United Airlines started the party in 2005 by instituting airline baggage fees but things didn’t go into full swing until 2008.  Two years later, the airline industry has more than 7.8 BILLION reasons annually to continue charging ancillary fees and a proven business model to do so.  [...]

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A Place to Slow Down

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A Slow Down Place Ok, so I’ve started this post about 12 times. There’s an important message here and I’m trying to get my head around it and pinpoint it. I think the message here is that it is necessary, important, and even critical to slow down at some point, for some specified time (which [...]

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Top 10 Benefits of Guided Group Travel

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Are You a Good Candidate for Guided Group Travel?  You Might Surprise Yourself! Is guided group travel for you? Or group travel in general? These days most people spend so much time in the office stressed out, they simply don’t have time, don’t take the time, or don’t want to hassle with planning a dive [...]

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Too Old For an Adventure Job?

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Too Old for an Adventure Job? It never occurred to me until recently to even ask if I was too old for an adventure job. Why? Because I’m not old, at least in MY mind. Old is awfully relative don’t you think? Twenty is old to a ten year old and eighty is old to [...]

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Scuba News Flash- Where did the fun go?

Breaking Scuba News! The fun seems to have drained from the scuba cylinders! His Holiness the Dalai Lama once said, “The purpose of life is to be happy” and I like to take it a step farther and say, “and have fun”. Yes, I know that, “times are hard” that “the economy is down” and [...]

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12 Tips for First Time Shark Divers

Ridlon (Sharkman) been writing a number of fantastic articles on shark diving and some of the best shark dives in the world.  That’s all great and people who love shark diving love the posts and those that are deathly afraid of sharks, get some weird rush of impending doom when they armchair quarterback them. But….what [...]

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