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Our top 4 Maldives dive liveaboards for 2018

What better way is there to explore the stunning atolls of the Maldives than aboard a luxury liveaboard? Relax and enjoy the scenery while cruising the Indian Ocean between the different dive sites. With so many extraordinary options to choose from we thought we would offer up our top 4 favourite luxury Maldives liveaboards for […]

Protect the Maldives’ reefs with marine biologist Steven Weinberg

Carpe Diem Maldives is thrilled to announce that they will be giving travellers to The Maldives the opportunity to dive and meet with internationally acclaimed Marine Biologist Steven Weinberg. As part of the on-going Dive with a Purpose events and International Year of the Reef 2018 celebration with Carpe Diem, avid divers can take to […]

Top 5 newly opened luxury Maldives diving resorts

Enjoy some of the best diving in the world with the Maldives’ incredible marine life and stunning crystal clear waters. With over a thousand individual islands with stunning surrounding reefs, it’s no wonder that the Maldives is a diver’s paradise. And in 2018 you can enjoy the ultimate in luxury and these newly opened luxury resorts […]

Join “Rescue a Reef” with Carpe Diem Maldives this October

This October the Carpe Diem Maldives liveaboard has joined up with the American organisation Coral Reef CPR to initiate the “Rescue a Reef” program with an October marine expedition. The program invites any Advanced Padi divers with an avid marine conservation interest to not miss out on this unique opportunity to work alongside expert marine […]

Diving with Disabilities

Most of us take our able-bodies for granted, grumbling when we feel a twinge of backache and feeling miserable when an injury prevents us from getting on with daily life. But for individuals who suffer long-term disabilities, certain aspects of daily life can present significant challenges.

Diving: How Low Can You Go?

For the majority of us, enjoying the wonders of scuba means marvelling at colourful coral reefs in the Caribbean, diving with hammerhead sharks off the coast of Costa-Rica or experiencing one-in-a-lifetime Maldives Liveaboard adventures. But, for a strange few, sinking down to unknown depths and diving so deep that their lives are put under serious […]

PADI Boat Diver Speciality Course

Apart from your Open Water, or beginner’s diving certification, you don’t need any special qualifications in order to start boat diving but, if you’ve splashed out on a Red Sea or Maldives Liveaboard adventure this year, for example, and don’t feel confident about diving from a boat, you could consider taking PADI’s Boat Diver speciality […]

Jacket or Back-mounted BCD – Which is best?

Your BCD, or ‘buoyancy control device’, is what keeps you bobbing at the surface and helps you maintain a comfortable level of buoyancy underwater. Essentially, it’s a jacket that fills with air and works by the diver controlling the air ‘bladders’, or ‘cells’ inside, using the automatic or manual inflation hoses. If you’re thinking about […]

Scuba Diving with Sharks

Whether you’re heading off on a Maldives Diving holiday or an African adventure this summer, diving with sharks is one of the most thrilling aspects of scuba. But as well as adopting the usual codes of safe underwater conduct, there are a few other things that you should take into consideration when diving with sharks: […]

Scuba Diving Red Sea: Wetsuits

Trying on a wetsuit certainly isn’t the most dignified experience, so you really want to make sure that you’re squeezing yourself into something suitable before you start overheating in the changing rooms. With racks upon racks of neoprene numbers adorning the walls of most dive shops, start by narrowing down your choices, using the following […]

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