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Scuba Diving Live Aboard at Moreton Bay

This is a story about my first Scuba Diving vacation a Live Aboard Trip, and it’s going to be the first of many trips. I loved it!! We arrived at the boat about 9 pm on a Monday night, and loaded all our gear on board. I found a bunk in the “ladies” room – [...]

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10 Things to Experience On Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island

Have Fun With A Sea Scooter A sea scooter is a water propeller which facilitates the practices of divers as well as it adds fun to their activities. It makes the practice of this sport ….. 10 Things to Experience On Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island 1) Mountaintop and seaside hiking trails. The Cape Breton [...]

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Scuba Diving In Great Barrier Reef

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is regarded as one of the world’s most popular scuba diving holiday destination. The Great Barrier Reef is situated off the east coast of Australia and it is the only living organic collective on earth, said to be visible from outer space. This Australian reef is also regarded as one of [...]

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Scuba Diving in the Red Sea, Egypt

People traveling to Egypt do not do so only to view the many fascinating historical sites stretching up and down the Nile River. They also come to take in the glories of the far Western Desert and its five large oases. Visitors also enjoy trekking and exploring through the Eastern Desert and the Sinai Peninsula [...]

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Phuket: An Amazing Scuba Diving Location

Phuket is located in Thailand and is very highly rated. In fact, it is among the world’s top ten scuba diving locations. Exotic culture, adventure both above and below the surface, unforgettable food, Phuket has all the right ingredients for a perfect diving holiday. There are breath taking reefs and remarkable underwater rock formations in [...]

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Diving at Cooke Island, New South Wales Australia

Diving at Cooke Island is pretty good. This is a story I wrote when we dived there 2 or 3 years ago. Here’s a picture of the island: We had a great time! The viz was poor, however we still saw lots of stuff. We went with about 5 other people, and Luke led us. [...]

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HMAS Brisbane – 2 years since it was sunk

And, we dived on it!  We were there the day after the 2nd anniversary of it being sunk.  It was very exciting to see the ship and I took some movie of our first dive.  The second dive, we went inside the Engine room, but I didn’t take the camera down for that dive. The [...]

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Red Sea

Scuba Diving Magazine have a guide to Scuba Diving vacations in Red Sea written by readers of the Magazine. They say that the lack of fresh water flowing into the sea, and the intense evaporation causes the Red sea to be saltier than most. The water is cooler, the seas are choppy , and visibility [...]

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Galapagos Islands

As usual, Island Dream has an exciting story to read about a Scuba Diving Vacation Galapagos Island Ken Knezick writes aobut his adventure aboard Peter Hughes’ new Motor Yacht (M/Y) Sky Dancer live-aboard dive boat. First of all, he describes the islands and the boat, then he warns that diving around the Galapagos Islands is [...]

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Port Douglas

Most people have probably heard of Cairns in the north of Queensland. Port Douglas is about an hour north of Cairns. Port Douglas – top of Queensland and still part of the Great Barrier Reef. Undersea Explorer take Scuba Divers to Ribbon Reefs, Cod Hole and Osprey Reef on their LiveAboard boat. At North Horn, [...]

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