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New “Wreck Trek” Features Shipwreck Trail In The Keys

By Editor • Jul 4th, 2010 • Category: news

 
A Wreck Trek Passport Program spotlighting the Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail now awaits divers visiting the Keys.
Certified divers can explore the destination’s most appealing feature—a string of sunken vessels and artificial reefs—and be awarded for logging back-to-back wreck dives or dives on subsequent visits through Jan. 1, 2012.
Divers taking up the challenge receive an Official [...]



Reef Ministries’ Scuba Liveaboard Cruise

By Editor • Jul 4th, 2010 • Category: news

 
Divers who want to merge their faith with their passion for scuba diving now have an opportunity. The Reef Ministries Scuba & Scripture Liveaboard Cruise is a liveaboard dive adventure.
Divers enjoy Christian fellowship, scuba diving and worshiping God on a weeklong adventure aboard the Aqua Cat off islands of the Bahamas. Activities include snorkeling, kayaking, fishing, [...]



Diveheart Seeks Nominations For Disabled Divers Hall Of Fame

By Editor • Jul 4th, 2010 • Category: news

 
Diveheart, a national nonprofit that assists disabled scuba divers, is seeking nominations for its hall of fame. The mission of the hall is “to recognize and salute individuals both disabled and able-bodied who have displayed an exceptional commitment to the support, promotion and furtherance of scuba diving for children, adults and veterans with disabilities.”
 The inductees [...]



DAN Hiring SCUBA Instructors

By Editor • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: news

 
Divers Alert Network, a leader in dive safety and emergency-assistance training, is looking for instructors nationally, including in South Florida.
DAN claims that the demand for new instructors is due to the introduction of education programs like Basic Life Support and First Aid and Dive Medicine for Divers, as well as the success of existing programs [...]



American Killed Wife While Diving In Caribbean

By Editor • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

 
An American has been convicted of murdering his wife while scuba diving in the Caribbean, according to FoxNews.com.
On Oct. 27 a jury in the British Virgin Islands convicted Rhode Island resident David Swain for killing his wife, Shelley Tyre, while they were scuba diving in 1999. Authorities originally ruled the death an accident but charged [...]



Reef Ministries, Christ And The Underwater World

By Editor • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

 
A new ministry presents the underwater world from a Biblical point of view. Fort Lauderdale-based Reef Ministries offers snorkeling and scuba diving adventures that are Christ-centered, which promotes environmental stewardship while instilling discipleship.
“I’ve been blessed to teach scuba diving to thousands of students and instructors, and I repeatedly heard students say they felt closer to God [...]



Seized Drug Vessel Sunk Off Deerfield

By Editor • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

 
M/V Miss Lourdies, a 165-foot cargo freighter confiscated by US Customs in June 2008, was sunk on June 6 off Deerfield Beach.
 
In June 2008, according to Arilton Pavan of Pompano Beach-based Dixie Divers, during an inspection at the Port of Miami, customs agents noticed an irregular noise when they tapped the hull of the Haitian flag [...]



CLASSIFIED AD: Scuba Instruction In Fort Lauderdale

By Editor • Jun 2nd, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

Haven’t you always dreamed of scuba diving? Seeing amazing scenery, like shipwrecks, strange animals and colorful coral reefs while gliding effortlessly?
 
Learn with one of the best and friendliest(!) instructors in South Florida! Now based in Broward, I’ve been a scuba instructor for more than 20 years and previously worked as a commercial diver in Miami [...]



The Vandenberg Sunk Off Key West; New Artificial Reef

By Editor • May 28th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

 
The retired missile-tracking ship Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg was sunk on May 27 and now sits in 140 feet of water six miles off Key West. The ship is reportedly sitting upright with its keel in the sand. After mooring buoys were installed, the site is now open to divers.
 
The 523-foot Vandenberg was one of [...]



Military Wounded Learn To Scuba Dive With Diveheart

By Editor • May 24th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

 
Editor’s Note: Diveheart is a non-profit whose purpose, according to its website, “is to provide and support educational SCUBA diving and snorkeling experience programs that are open to any child, adult or veteran with a disability with the hope of providing both physical and psychological therapeutic value to that person. Its president, Jim Elliott, recently [...]