Following on from Yu the turtle who received artificial limbs, we have “Mr Stubbs”, the alligator who was rescued by the Phoenix Herpatological Society in Arizona in 2005 after having his tail bitten off. After many months of development Mr Stubbs can now walk and swim again. If you missed it, check out Yu’s story.

PADI Recreational Sidemount With sidemount diving gaining in popularity and gaining more mainstream exposure, I decided it was time to check it out myself. Having the opportunity to attend a PADI Tec Explorer event at Team Blue Immersion, Dahab, Egypt. I jumped at the chance to take the recreational PADI Sidemount Diver [...]

Buying your own dive gear It only takes one great experience to fall in love with diving, but when you’re new to the sport, you might be hesitant to go out and immediately buy your own gear. At first, it might make sense to rent gear and get a feel [...]

Diving in Sweden, a sea full of colours! by  Stefan Beskow Not what you think! For many divers cold water diving in Scandinavia is associated with dark and cold waters, with colours definitely not springing to mind.  Of course there are dive sites like this.  Sometimes also if you’re not paying [...]

ScubaEarth has now been live for 4 months and during that time a number of users have caught our eye. Of course the person who logs the most dives is going to be top of our list. Step forward ScubaEarth user and PADI Master Instructor Andrew Ricks who has logged [...]