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Huge Sale this Saturday and Sunday only!!!

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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

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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

Guess who's back?

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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