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Surfer Holly Beck swims with Whale Shark

August 21, 2009
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Website Update – GirlDiver.com is back

August 14, 2009

Website Update My original web designer, Aaron Marth, of Marth Media, came to the rescue! He had a backup copy of the GirlDiver site from October 2006. The site had since been redone by a student who changed the platform into a Xoops (yeah, no one else has really heard of it either) so I [...]

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Seattle Scuba Instruction: Escape the Heat and Hit the Water

July 29, 2009

Greetings!! As the temps heat up and you’re looking for a refreshing change of pace, now’s the time to enroll in a scuba class for the late summer or fall. To help you along, we’re offering our BEAT THE HEAT specials on every session…available only to those who receive our mailings, whether on our list, [...]

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GirlDiver Travel: New Airline Regulations for Scuba Divers

July 24, 2009

Rules keep changing for SCUBA diving travelers regarding baggage limitations, fees, etc. Recently Megan Denny of PADI did some investigative reporting and got to the bottom of this confusing, ever-changing issue. Story originally published on DiversNewsWire.com.  by Megan Denny   I decided to research the baggage oversize and overweight fees for some of the major [...]

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GirlDiver Lifestyle: What’s a good girl to wear?

July 23, 2009

The pool session. This is probably the first time since childhood swimming lessons you’ll be asked to participate in a class in a bathing suit. And for those who are not avid swimmers or pageant models, this may be one of the toughest parts of your open water class. The bathing suit. One piece? Two [...]

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How to buy Scuba Equipment – Part One

June 15, 2009

The ideal way for a novice diver to purchase their own equipment is with a high limit credit card and the experience only seasoned divers have. Selecting a dive set up in a world you’ve just earned admission to is tough. Most start the search with misinformation, opinions from other divers and strangers recommendations. Poor [...]

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PADI Scuba – Get College Credit for Learning to Scuba Dive

May 3, 2009

When I was in college, I was not…well, shall we say, “athletically gifted”. I’ve always lived by the philosophy, if it’s flying at you, DUCK! So, volleyball, softball and basketball were never sports I spent very much time with. I did take PE in college…one quarter of badmitton and two quarters of golf. This taught [...]

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What a difference a year makes!

January 27, 2009

My friend, Sacha Blue, was clicking through her internet, unable to sleep…when over on my “GirlDiver MySpace Blog” she came across an entry written exactly one year ago today. “It’s snowing, sleeting, frigid…and I’ve got students out for Open Water dives. The instructor most responsible for my upbringing as a diver once said, “Instructors are [...]

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The List

October 30, 2008

50 things to accomplish by Age 50. Deadline: October 1, 2017. Build a million dollar business, not for the money, but more as a benchmark of serving othersLive on a sailboatLive in a foreign countryHave Christmas in a snow laden cabinSwim with Stellar Sea Lions in HornbyExperience kite surfingLearn to watercolorTrek thru NepalRide an elephant [...]

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