Diving with Orcas

I am sure we have all been to a sea aquarium at least once in our life, but hopefully now with all the commotion around Seaworld  we know better.  We are all signing petitions, to save marine capture, stop Dolphin torture in Tajij, or the Faroe slaughter. Facebook is exposing more and more and we are slowly getting educated through social media.

Dive against Debris

Every year thousands of marine animals die from eating or getting tangled in marine debris or trash in the ocean.  Research has shown that marine debris affects 663 marine species. Divers have a history of removing trash from the ocean but despite our best efforts the trash keeps piling up.  In order to help the cleaning action of divers even more, PADI came with the Aware specialty Dive against Debris.

Diving at BAT islands

Laura Tyrell came to Rich Coast Diving as a divemaster in training and grew into an amazing IDC staff instructor.  As time moved on she is now expecting and soon to be a happy mommy of a future diver🙂  Laura has done many dives on Murcielago and it left a great impression on her, even after these many years she still talk about this amazing dive site.

Hola from the intern house!

 

Welcome to Casa Ballena. The intern house of Rich Coast Diving. We have people living here throughout the PADI ladder from instructors to dive masters in training and rescue divers along with our 2 cats momo and suka.

Animal abuse for selfies

Just any ordinary day off and I am scrolling down my Facebook page.  I scrolled down on a photo of a former classmate with a selfie  holding a baby shark.  The comments underneath were all positive and I could not believe my eyes.  People saying “Thank God it is just a baby”  got my neck hairs to rise even more.

To Bring or not to Bring….your cert card on a trip?

Here at the dive shop we always ask for our divers to show their certification card when they sign up for any type of dive.  I am always so surprised how many people make a comment that they were never asked to show it on previous dive trips or we are the first to ask in many years!

My next experience – the Advanced

The Open Water certification was absolutely not enough for me! I discovered that diving is addicting. I want to develop myself and become a better diver. The next step for me was the PADI Advanced Open Water Certification.
This course is to gain more experience in diving and to get more confidant underwater. For me it was an opportunity to try a sample of different specialties to see what I think is interesting to do.