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Want a new dive buddy this holiday season?  Give your friends and family the gift of scuba with Down Under Dive Shop PADI eLearning® Gift Passes.  Whether it’s for the holidays, a birthday, wedding, graduation or before they leave on a trip – PADI eLearning Gift Passes are the perfect gifts to get friends and family in the water. Not only are they festive, but you can add a customized message to the recipient. customized message to the recipient. List of our Online Courses How do Online Courses work? What are you waiting for?  Purchase your  PADI eLearning Gift Passes   online today or visit Down Under Dive Shop.

Down Under Dive Shop has Great Gift Ideas for the diving fanatic in your life. Like these diving stocking fillers and must have diving gifts for the serious diver. Here are some Gift Ideas for the Scuba Diving enthusiast. If they just have everything, the team at Down Under Dive Shop are sure we can help. Do you need gift ideas  to give this year!!! Buy someone you know a Down Under Shop Gift Voucher. We can offer Gift Vouchers starting from just $25.00 Check Out these Gift Ideas: Combo Mask Scrub Defog $6.95 Dry Cases for Smart Phones and Tablets $39 to $59 Deluxe Save a Dive Kit $11.95 XS Multi Prpose Dive Tool $29.95 Super Pencils, Wet Notes and Slates $7.99 to $29 Custom Mask Straps $11.99 JBL and Riffe Spearguns $84-$999.95 Dive Lights $45-$799 Hoodies and Pull Overs Airfill Cards (10 airfills or Five Nitrox fills) $40 Logbook Protectors $23.95 LAVACORE Shirts and Hoods $25 to $89 Pelican Dry Boxes

It's time to clear out last year's inventory. Check out the prices on these package deals while supplies last! It's our biggest sale ever! Stop by this Saturday and Sunday for a once in a lifetime sale to get 15% to 50% Off on select gear. .5mm to 3mm wetsuits (2010 Scubapro and Subgear) Cammo Suits and Rash Guards (JBL,Riffe,Scubapro, Subgear) Knighthawk and Seahawks BCDs with Air2 Digital Gauges and Dive Computers.(All Brands) Dry suits (Waterproof Draco, and Scubapro Evertec) Twinjet Max Fins (25% Off) Sea Life and Sea and Sea Cameras (15% Off) Dive knives (All Brands 15%) Spearguns and accessories (JBL and Riffe15% off) Like New Tusa Scooters $899 was $2200 Gloves (All Brands 15% off) Waterproof Iphone/Android Cases (Pelican 15% Off) Lights, Strobes, Markers (15% to 50% Off) Used Regulators Systems $200! Used BCDs $250! Used Wetsuits $50 Scuba Tanks (Aluminum 80s $187.50 with Valve and Air Fill Card) Ocean Reef Full Face

Testing the new PADI Sidemount Diver Course Posted in News, Training with tags PADI Sidemount on October 27, 2011 by kattek By Kelly Rockwood, Training Consultant – PADI Americas One of the great things about working in the PADI Training Department is the opportunity to help create, review and test new PADI programs. I was lucky enough to be included in formative research we were doing for the new PADI Sidemount Diver course held over the Labor Day holiday in September 2011. Giving up a holiday weekend was a small price to pay to be among a group of people helping test this new equipment configuration. Jeff Loflin, a respected PADI Course Director and author of the first Sidemount Diver Distinctive Specialty course, led the research as our instructor. Day One In the morning, we met in a classroom where our instructor reviewed the development of the PADI Sidemount Diver Course Instructor Guide as it was currently written. The group then discussed a few edits to these stand

Photo by Instructor Shane Anderson Scientists with the federal government and from 3 Gulf of Mexico states say efforts to find out more about whale sharks, the world's largest fish, are picking up steam. Biologist Eric Hoffmayer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries service says 2 trips into the Gulf during September resulted in 10 taggings, significantly more than earlier efforts. The tags will provide information on the animals' movements. In the summer, schools of the harmless animals laze about at the surface, where they can be tagged easily. But as fall approaches, they split off to hang out with schools of tuna that herd baitfish to the surface for an easy meal. Relatively little is known about whale sharks. Scientists don't have a handle on population numbers, or know much about their breeding and migratory patterns. Researchers from Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi joined for the September tagging expedition. They were aided in

Congratulations Alexandra Swanson on Earning the 20 Millionth Diver Certification Alexandra Swanson became the recipient of the 20 millionth PADI certification when she earned her PADI Open Water Diver course certification on 4 September 2011. As a result, she'll be taking a dream dive trip to Queensland, Australia with four nights of accommodation in Cains, Queensland, Australia and a three-night excursion on the live-aboard dive vessel Spirit of Freedom. During her trip, she'll get to visit iconic Great Barrier Reef dive sites like Cod Hole and the Ribbon Reefs. Additionally, the certifying instructor -- PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Timmothy Aguon and PADI Five Star Instructor Development Center Micronesia Divers Association in Guam, were also awarded trips for one in celebration of the certification. With more than 20 million diver certifications issued worldwide since 1966, PADI is The Way the World Learns to Dive®. PADI eCards Available to Divers Next Month

Well Divers it's been a pretty awesome week of diving. Some of the best news is that our beloved Whiskey Wreck is now slightly more uncovered, thanks to Tropical Storm Lee, with depths ranging from 13' t0 15' instead of 9'. Perdido Pass Jetties weathered the storm a little worse with a large amount of topsoil (from the the flooding)  has dropped viz to a less than favourable 1' to 5' on  most days.  We expect this to clear up over the next few weeks. Here are some reports from The Dive Boat this past week. USS Allen: No current, viz: 5 to 10 ft. Navy Tug: 80 ft viz, JT killed 3 Lionfish, Huge baitball, awesome, 2-3 ft seas. New Barge': seas 1-2, minimal current, sunny skies, H2O 80°, 60 ft viz, Divemaster JT found a huge octopus and 1 unlucky Lionfish, covered in Black Snapper, Butterfly fish, and Pufferfish. Navy Dive Tender 14, 40 ft viz. JT killed 10 lionfish. Divers saw Octopus, huge spiny lobster, a Goliath grouper tons of snapper and mor

Hello Divers, Well it’s been quite an eventful summer so far. I am happy to report that the Down Under ran more dive charters to date than any of the previous summers.Divers stayed safer than any of the previous seasons by executing responsible dive plans and safe diving practices. With the help of our "infamous Captain Bert Valle" Aka the Crazy Cuban, we were able to introduce some new reefs into our pretty substantial list of sites. New Barge and Pete's 301 (Named after Pete Holmes' 301st Dive) are two new faves. We hosted 3 successful Instructor Development Courses with 100% passing. Good Job Team and introduced over 200 new divers to our wonderful underwater world. We found some new creatures this year including strange new Nudibranchs, Oscillated frog fish, a 100lb Sea Sturgeon, and a Husker's Conger Eel.                Thank you all for making this a spectacular season. Even though the retail center is closed Mondays and Tuesdays after this week,