We are almost 1/2 way home on our Scuba Best Place to Dive Contest.  To enter tells us about YOUR best place to dive or make a comment on ANY article on our site.  You don’t have to be a diver to enter. 

Winners will be choosen at ramdom.  To check out our prizes click on:

http://www.scubaology.com/archives/2007/04/30/scubaology-contest-prize-the-living-marine-aquarium/

http://www.scubaology.com/archives/2007/05/02/scubaology-contest-prize-visions-of-the-sea/

http://www.scubaology.com/archives/2007/05/03/scubaology-contest-prize-flip-fins/

LET US HEAR FROM YOU!

Take a look at a portion of one of our prizes in The Best Place to Dive Contest,

Annie Crawley’s Visions of The Sea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP6uuvNR1Eo

I recently found a new site which has travel videos from around the world.  Travelistic .com has thousand of videos to view. It can help you plan a trip or just view an interesting site which you have never visited.  I typed scuba diving in the search box and found about 35 different videos.  Many of them are ads from vacation spots, but some are pretty good like this one of …

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Just use Google Reader http://www.google.com/help/reader/tour.html  

Google Reader lets you add different websites to YOUR list, and then alerts you when new articles are published.  I use google reader to research a variety of topics.  There are other blog readers available, but I have always used google.  Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.

 Once you have google reader or any reader, all …

I recently  published an article on Whale Sharks.  I was then made aware of another whale shark article on fogonazos.blogspot.com, about Whale Sharks at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium.   Check out this site.  The use of a video and pictures, makes me want to visit this aquarium. This site orginates in …

We at scubaology.com are sorry to see Diverster.com end their blog.  They signed off as of 1/31/07.  I really enjoyed their articles, pictures and other information on many dive related subjects.  We wish all their people well.  We will check out Eric Brodeur at his blog, Willy Volk at Gadling.com and Bill Reals at www.reals.net.  Good luck to all and your site will be missed.

Diver Al at scubaology.com

People are really interested in the new iPhones.  I have recently lost a cell phone and PDA by getting them wet.  My next phone will be a smart phone and I plan to protect it.  One of the products I am considering is an Aquapac waterproof case.  There are some other products which also provide waterproof cases such as Skins, Otterbox, KeepItDry, and …

What do you do when your are not diving?  Maybe you want to look for that ultimate speedboat?  Well you don’t have to go to far.  Check out the new bionic dolphin constructed of Kevalar. It has a 435 Corvette engine and cost a mere $350,000.00 Like a dolphin it can stand straight up.  It also has some submarine qualities.  Let’s see….how many dives trips can I make for $350,000?

Eduard Solano, fellow blogger and diver put together the slide show above. What wonderful images, Eduard has in his slide show. Anyone have a translation of “Fent” for me?  (IE users  click here to see the scuba slideshow, Firefox users click the post title.)
If you are on Eduard’s page in the right hand column is a translation tool from Catala to English, but it isn’t perfect. Eduard …

One of the most important websites every diver should know is DAN or Divers Alert Network.  DAN awareness is a must for all divers.  Hopefully you will never have to use it, but if there is an incident DAN is there to help.  DAN will help an emergency MD, who has little or no experience with medical dive problems, diagnosis and recommend treatment for medical incidents.

DAN insurance will pay for hyberbaric chamber use (often $1000/treatment or more), flights to a …