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Galapagos Diving Your underwater adventures in the Galapagos will encompass everything from sharks to nudibranchs, and more. The islands are best known for amazing shark diving around Wolf and Darwin Islands. These small and remote islands are best reached by liveaboard vessels for divers. Your diving experience here will generally include Galapagos sharks, silky sharks and lots of schooling hammerheads being cleaned by king angelfish. Seeing marine turtles, schools of tuna, eagle rays, and sea lions is very common and seeing a whale shark is very possible from June through November. All the islands you travel to are amazing sites for underwater photography. Macro photographers will have their fill of sea horses, barnacle blennies, coral hawk fish, and many others. An abundance of rays are at many of the dive sites (including spotted rays, marble rays, golden rays and stingrays) along with sea lions, sea turtles, schools of grunts and snappers. The variety of life in these water is unl

PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn't even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. The Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program is one of two distinct components of PADI’s Instructor Development Course (IDC)—the core of PADI Instructor training. The first portion is the Assistant Instructor course followed by the Open Water Scuba Instructor program. The IDC program is a minimum of five days (not including online independent learning) It introduces you to the entire PADI System of diver education and concentrates on further developing your abilities as a professional dive educator. The Fun Part It’s about life transformations—both yours and those around you. The fun part of instructor training is interacting with course participants while creating friendships t

Down Under Dive Shop's 2010 season has come to an end, and it's time to move out our 2010 inventory and get ready for next year. Down Under Dive shop will be hosting the largest "one day" clearence sale in our history on Black Friday, November 26th 10:00 am to 1:00pm. Come in or call for 25% off of all products (excluding Courses, Weights, and T-Shirts) and 50% or more savings on the following items. All Waterproof Drysuits Starting at $899 ($1999 Regular) ALL Masks!!! Starting at $30 Select 3mm Wetsuits!!! Prices Range from $40 Shorties $88 for 3mm Full Suits. All Gear Bags 50% Off!!! Red Twin Jet Max Fins $99!!! Pelaj Spearguns $150! Free Dive T-Shirt with Purchase of $100 Gift Certificate!!!

Happy Veterans Day! Dive Boat Schedule: Sat: 6hr 2 Tank Charter: Sun: 6hr 2 Tank Charter Class Schedule: Open Water Diver/Scuba Review Nov.15 Enriched Air Nitrox: Nov. 12 Advanced Openwater Diver: Nov. 13 Deep/Wreck: Nov 14 CPR/First Aid/AED/O2 Provider Nov 17 and Nov 27 Instructor Development Course Nov. 22 Trips: Manatee Trip Feb 12th Fiji March 19th (sign up today only one spot left) Palau March 18th 2012 Congratulations to Kevin Johnson on the PADI Open Water Diver Course. Meet The Staff: Specialty Instructor: Jim Mahan Jr. Jim is Public Safety Search and Recovery Diver and has over 30 Years of Diving Experience. Manager Course Director: Bryan Eslava Bryan is our resident Course Director (Instructor Trainer), Side Mount Instructor, Full Face Mask Instructor, Tec Trimix and Full Cave Diver. Bryan also teaches a host of Specialty Instructor Ratings ranging from CPR Instructor to Equipment Repair Technician. Bryan is also an adventure travel guide and takes groups on diving vacations

Check out the Video Prepare to ‘Dive Easy’ on Tropic Dancer where you’ll enjoy all of the amenities you’ve come to expect from a Dancer Fleet yacht®. Once you’re settled in on this comfortable yacht and ensconced in Dancer Fleet surroundings, you’ll be ready to focus on the huge variety the underwater world of Palau has to offer. At Blue Corner you’ll be greeted by gray reef and white tip sharks, Napoleon Wrasse, spotted eagle rays, schooling jacks and barracuda, trigger fish and more. Look for manta rays, octopi, nudibranchs, garden eels and maybe even a leopard shark when diving in German Channel. Peleliu Corner, where the ocean currents converge to make up some of the strongest currents you’ll ever experience, is home to large numbers of tropical fish and a variety of corals including soft, cable and black. Sea fans decorate the wall while large pelagic fish cruise around Peleliu Corner. Here is a sample of some of the dive sights: Remnants of WWII are still visible thro

This week at Down Under Dive Shop What’s up, Divers? Let’s start off with last weekend’s dive Report. Saturday everyone had an awesome time with 40-50’’+ of Viz on Atlantis Bridge Rubble. We then made our way over to Southwind Barge for lots of bottom time and flounder everywhere. Cheynne Milan, Bryan Eslava, Terry Miller, Scott Williams, Sonia Webb, Pete Holmes and Hugh and Gail Headrick enjoyed an amazing week of diving in the Florida Keys. We started off our Trip with some awesome reef diving on French and Molasses Reef. Mid week we made 5 dives on the Wench Hole and a Night Dive on Snapper Ledge. We ended our trip with 130’+ viz and zero current on the Duane. Call Bryan to sign up for the February trip to see what you missed. Class Schedule: Open Water Diver/Scuba Review Nov.15 Enriched Air Nitrox: Nov. 12 $175 Advanced Openwater Diver: Nov. 13 Deep/Wreck: Nov 14 CPR/First Aid/AED/O2 Provider Nov 17 and Nov 27 Divemaster Nov. 06 Instructor Nov. 22 Dive Boat Schedule: Sat: 6hr 2 Tan