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PADI Diving Society’s Total Submersion Event
PADI Total Submerssion
Not sure where to go next? Take your next adventure with the PADI Diving Society.
Related tags: PADI News | Grand Cayman
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Another Chance for Sharks and Rays? Act Now
Project Aware
If you’ve supported Project AWARE’s shark campaign, signed the shark petition or rallied shark support in your community – then this message is for you. 
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Help Protect Sharks & Rays!
Sport Diver Magazine
In a matter of days, officials from countries around the world will have a historic opportunity to protect a record number of sharks and rays – including oceanic whitetip sharks, hammerheads and manta rays – from the unsustainable international trade that threatens their survival.
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Behind the Lens: The Art of Modeling Without Modeling
Sport Diver Magazine
Ellen Cuylaerts blogs about her experiences as an underwater photographer. This installment: How to develop a sense for using models in your imagery
Related tags: Underwater photography | News | Grand Cayman
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PADI Is on Instagram
Instagram
PADI is now on Instagram so you can share your love of scuba diving on your mobile device!
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The Healthy Diver: Doing the Perfect Squat
Squat Exercise
Incorporating squats into your daily exercise regimen to help make you a stronger diver. Read more here … 
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Diving Doc: Getting It Up While Going Down
Couple relaxin on beach
Popular prescription medications for treating erectile dysfunction include Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra. They work by increasing blood flow to certain areas of the penis, and like all meds have side effects. Most worrisome is a potentially dangerous decrease in blood pressure in those taking certain other drugs that also dilate blood vessels. Other possible side effects tend to be transient and mild in nature, but still can be problematic for the diver.
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Join Sport Diver Editor-in-Chief David Espinosa and Photographer Keri Wilk at the Tobago Photosafari
Sport Diver Magazine
This July, drift dive some of the healthiest reefs in the world, see the world’s largest brain coral, get up close and personal with sharks, turtles and rays, explore lush tropical rainforests, and capture the week using a SeaLife DC1400 camera.
Related tags: scuba diving trips | scuba diving vacations | Underwater photography | News | Trinidad & Tobago
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A Day in the Life of a Divemaster: Max Hay
Divemaster Max Hay
Max Hay is a PADI Divemaster now working at Scuba Nation Diving Centre, a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  Max shares an interesting story that leads up to his professional diving career in the country of his birth.
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CounterStrike: All a-goggle
Sport Diver Magazine
Published in 1934 and widely regarded as being the first book to popularise recreational diving, Guy Gilpatric’s, ‘The Compleat Goggler’ still manages to charm and delight those people fortunate enough to lay hands on a copy. 
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Diver Helps Dolphin Untangle From Fishing Line! [VIDEO]
Sport Diver Magazine
Heartwarming story. A fishing-line entangled dolphin in Hawaii "asks" a diver for help—and gets it.
Related tags: Animal Encounters | marine life | News | Hawaii
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Twelve Tank Salute — Grand Cayman's Kittiwake
Sport Diver Magazine
Kittiwake's executive officer returns for a different kind of ship inspection when he scuba dives Grand Cayman's most famous wreck
Related tags: News | Cayman Islands
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Extinction Is NOT an Option; CITES Leaders Must Vote Yes
Project Aware Petition
We’re just weeks away from CITES: March 2013! Project AWARE is working hard to get support from CITES authorities and governments worldwide to vote YES to protect shark and ray species on the brink.
Related tags: marine life | News
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Diving Doc: Jellyfish Stings
Jellyfish
Basic first aid guidelines when you’ve been zapped. Read more here…
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The Healthy Diver: Predive Workout
Stretch
A few simple pre-dive stretches can help keep you injury-free. Read more here… 
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Behind the Lens: Ellen Cuylaerts
Sport Diver Magazine
Ellen Cuylaerts blogs about her experiences as an underwater photographer. This installment: An encounter with a hawksbill turtle. 
Related tags: News | Grand Cayman
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Whale Shark Rescue!
whale shark rescue
Stunning photos of divers from the Solmar V in the Socorros helping an entangled whale shark
Related tags: marine life | Photo Galleries | News | Baja & Western Mexico
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Home, Sweet (Glub, Glub) Home
Sport Diver Magazine
Artist Jason deCaires Taylor adds a neighborhood to Cancun's underwater sculpture museum
Related tags: Cancun, Mexico | News
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Conservation International Helps Support Oceanscape Initiative
Sport Diver Magazine
Sixteen Pacific island nations commit to the largest conservation effort on the planet
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It's Not Easy Bein' Green
Sport Diver Magazine
A potential new classification for Hawaii's green sea turtles
Related tags: marine life | News | Hawaii
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Shape the Future of Rebreather Diving
Sport Diver Magazine
Don’t miss your chance to witness and shape the future of rebreather diving on 18-20 May 2012 at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA. Rebreather Forum 3 (RF3) is a three day event that includes everything from try dives on cutting edge rebreather units as well as thought provoking and informational seminars.
Related tags: scuba diving lessons | scuba forum | PADI News
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A Full Press for Sharks this Year
Project AWARE logo
Overfishing. Finning. Extinction. These are words that we should never have to associate with global shark species.
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Only a Few Sports Left on Total Sub
Sport Diver Magazine
We told you to act fast! There are only a few spots left on PADI Diving Society’s infamous Total Submersion event 9 – 16 June 2012. Society members are counting down the days until they are back in Grand Cayman and enjoying the usual tomfoolery that Total Submersion offers - so what are you waiting for?Packages include*:•    Roundtrip on-island transfers  •    Seven nights accommodations - Sunset House  •    Four days of two-tank boat diving - Sunset Divers 
Related tags: dive packages | padi | scuba diving resorts | PADI News | Cayman Islands
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PADI Divemaster Wins Sea the Change Video Contest
Sport Diver Magazine
Congrats to PADI Divemaster Seth Greenspan, worldwide winner of the 2011 PADI Sea the Change Conservation Contest for his submission "Documenting Global Coral Reef Restoration."
Related tags: marine life | padi | PADI News
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Dive and Protect: New C-cards for 2012
Sport Diver Magazine
The next time you complete a PADI certification course (or replace a lost certification card) you can become an ocean hero in one simple step: make a small donation to select the Project AWARE version of your card.What happens next? You get a cool picture card to show off your support and 100 percent of your donation supports Project AWARE ocean initiatives to protect the places you love to dive.
Related tags: padi | scuba diving certification | scuba diving lessons | PADI News
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PADI Diving Society Celebrates 15 Years
Sport Diver Magazine
You may have read in the recent issue of the Sport Diver’s January/February 2012 issue that the PADI Diving Society is celebrating 15 years of total mayhem, shenanigans and the best dive adventures!For the past15 years, the PADI Diving Society has hosted events all over the world with special guests including Wyland, Bob Talbot, Rogest, Guy Harvey, Barefoot Man and more. Society continues to show divers how to live the dive life, connect members through Sport Diver magazine and continues to be the perfect complement to your  lifetime PADI certification.
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The Lost Girls Join PADI Diving Society at Ocean Safari: Borneo
Sport Diver Magazine
Together they've traveled more than 96,500 kilometres/60,000 miles across four continents and now they’re planning to scuba dive in Borneo with PADI Diving Society! Join The Lost Girls and avid PADI Divers -- Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett and Amanda Pressner -- as they discover the exotic wonders of Malaysia’s Borneo and the magical islands of Mabul and Sipadan.
Related tags: scuba diving resorts | scuba diving trips | scuba diving vacations | PADI News
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Get Your Shark Certification
Sport Diver Magazine
The newly released AWARE Shark Conservation Diver Distinctive Specialty Course will turn you into an advocate for shark conservation. A course for both divers and non-divers alike, you’ll learn all about the world’s most vulnerable shark species and how to protect them. What will you discover during the AWARE Shark Conservation program? •    The value of sharks to marine ecosystems and economies.•    Major threats pushing many shark species close to extinction.•    What is missing in current shark fisheries management.
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Five Things to Do Before the Year is Over!
Sport Diver Magazine
1. Plan an exotic dive vacation with your dive buddy.Looking for an extraordinary dive vacation next year? Join PADI Diving Society on an excursion of a lifetime to Malaysia’s Borneo.  Travel into the wilds of Mabul and Sipadan, Borneo from 16 - 24 March 2012 on an expedition through jungles, across rivers and spanning oceans to two very unique islands. Visit www.padi.com/borneo of all of the details.2. Book your spot to join Society Alums on an event like no other.
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PADI Dive Centers in Thailand are Open for Business.
Sport Diver Magazine
Over the past several weeks, seasonal rains that are heavier than usual have resulted in widespread flooding in Thailand.  While the flooding is having some impact, most key tourist destinations and attractions throughout Thailand have not been affected by the floods and almost all remain open.  The floods are mainly affecting the provinces in central Thailand and a few provinces in the north and northeast.  Provinces in the south of Thailand have not been affected by the floods.  
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