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i WOULD LIKE TO GO BONAIRE.

by Wigberto Aponte on August 20, 2013

ANYONE CAN GIVE ME AN ADVICE?

Mako shark attacking a PelagicView dredge

by Ksso on July 11, 2013

Super impressive video unexpectedly shot a few days ago next to Ocean City, MD. Fishermen were looking for thuna and stuck a Gopro to their line. They ended up shooting a Mako shark feasting on the bait !

The images show the mako catching up the bait moving at 7 knots (~ 12kmh) and giving a fairly good view on the shark's pointy teeth.

Octopus riding a turtle

by Ksso on July 06, 2013

Spotted on reddit and.... totally AWESOME ! Maybe octopus are secretly playing quidditch riding turtles and blasting pufferfishes and chasing nautiluses ... this totally needs more investigation.

Alternatively this may be an alien .... :)

Beautiful scuba commercial by Swatch

by Ksso on June 22, 2013

Swatch really doesn't naturally click with scuba. And while I'm still trying to figure out what this new line of watches has to do with scuba - couldn't find depth rating or any scuba feature aside from the name of the watches (lionfish... ), I was awed by the video clip - it would have been an amazing clip for Diveboard !

By the way the soundtrack is "Underwater" by Mika (here on Spotify)

I got the PADI Open Water!

by Bmoody on June 19, 2013

Khao Lak Explorer Dive Center

by Kex on June 18, 2013

Similan islands are beautifulll

My DSD in dolphins diving Lloret

by Shark Germany on June 15, 2013

Hi Divers!

Im new in this world, recently I been in lloret de Mar, and i make my DSD course, and Im really satisfied, I met with Sergio and Erik, and we had a really nice time, in the center, I make 2 dives, first time, in my life and after I just make some skills and I obtain my Certificate of Discover Scuba diver! I will come back in august to make the Open wáter course, this center speak really good english, italian, russian, and french, so you dont have an excuss to visit them, really clean, and polite people, service 100% friendly, they take care of you.. i dont know, to be my first time.. I really Enjoyed! Thanks Sergio!! Big hug! Germany again sad..

Subsurface 2013 Underwater Photo Contest

by Elche on April 18, 2013

The divingiscool.com scuba diving magazine and its Hungarian

partner site, divecenter.hu organize picture of the month contests since 2007

and shootout competitions since 2009. During the last few years the

photographers sent hundreds of images to the picture of the month contests

and this traditional online contest is still going on with different subjects

every month. There is a video snapshot contest since 2010 as well. They felt

maybe they are able to organize a different kind of competition, an annual one

with modified rules and valuable prizes. After a few months of work the two

websites proudly announce a new international photo contest with 4200 USD in ...

Support Coralbot on Kickstarter

by Ksso on April 17, 2013

We first heard about the Coralbot about a year ago. Imagined by a team of scientists from the Heriot-Watt university, the projects leverages on research on swarm intelligence to provide an innovative solution to restore the function of reefs, both shallow and deep across the globe. They just launched a kickstarter project to raise 107 000$ to build prototypes to demonstrate their approach.

Coral-bots are a team of robots that intelligently navigate across a damaged coral reef, transplanting pieces of healthy corals along the way. The big job of developing and testing the robots at sea has already been done. All that remains is to embed the robots with computer vision to “see” healthy bits...