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GirlDiver Spotlight – Dive for a Cure

August 27, 2010

GirlDiver would like to invite all of it’s fans to check out http://www.diveforacure.org/   This is an AMAZING group of women (and some token guys!!) who work tirelessly all year long for this important cause.   You don’t need to live locally to participate…donations, I’m sure, would be accepted worldwide.

Report from Afghanistan – Of Jirga’s and Generals

June 3, 2010

Our team member Rhonda, currently in Afghanistan with the U.S. Treasury, has been offline for awhile with lots to catch up on… (click on pictures to enlarge…)  The Peace Jirga -  Rhonda normally works at the Afghanistan Ministry of Finance, taking an armored vehicle en route through snarled roads with no traffic laws.  However, this [...]

Girl Diver Profile – Sacha Blue – Underwater Portrait Photographer

May 6, 2010

  At GirlDiver, we are priviledged to be able to attract some of the finest, strongest women into our scuba programs.  One of our Team members, Sacha (aka…Sacha Blue) comes from the world of wedding photography.   And while she’s a stunning wedding photographer, when she paired her passion for pictures with her love of the [...]

Girl Diver Get Together- Rock ‘n Roll – Dinner and a Movie night

May 5, 2010

Last night the GirlDiver SuperFantasticActionAdventure Dive club went to a viewing of the Disney movie “Ocean’s”.   Brilliant!  The movement and the visions of the marine mammals and fish underwater was so much more “real” to us as divers than  a non-diver who has never been in that world.  Watching the movie,  I was personally made [...]

Girl Diver Environment: Duwamish Water Way Clean Up in Seattle

April 21, 2010

GirlDiver Fans helped plant grasses, intertidal shrubs, and wetland plants at North Wind’s Weir as a part of Duwamish Alive! Earth Day project on April 17. GirlDiver along with 200 other volunteers marked the official completion of this salmon habitat restoration project. Congratulations guys!! JOB WELL DONE! To see m…ore information about the day visit [...]

GirlDiver Spotlight: Kyra, Nuclear Diver

August 10, 2009

Who says a 5’4″ GirlDiver can’t don a men’s large drysuit and go diving in radioactive water? This GirlDiver takes on Nuclear Diving for a living… How long have you been diving? Did you dive recreationally before deciding to pursue commercial? I started diving (in 1994) recreationally while I was living in the Philippines, my [...]

GirlDiver Spotlight: Jean, Cave Diver

August 9, 2009

Jean Nelson, Cave Diver What piqued your original interest in diving and where has your diving taken you? I was originally certified almost 25 years ago, but took a break for about 15 years and started diving again in 2001. I have almost 1000 dives (967 to be precise…) and still have my same fascination [...]

GirlDiver Spotlight: Janna Nichols, REEF Instructor

August 9, 2009

Janna is a Master Scuba Diver Trainer for PADI, but more notably, the Pacific Northwest’s premier REEF Instructor. She’s been diving for 5 years and has logged almost 500 dives. What originally piqued your interest in diving? In sixth grade, I checked out a book from the library. And of course, as kids, we always [...]

GirlDiver Spotlight: Valerie Lyttle, Amature Underwater Videographer

August 9, 2009

Valerie is a GirlDiver who resides in the Pacific Northwest. She’s been diving for 3 1/2 years and has logged almost 600 dives. What originally got you interested in diving? Like many, I’d grown up watching Jacques Cousteau and National Geographic specials on TV. I’d always found them interesting and thought the UW world fascinating. [...]

Scuba History: Mermaids

August 22, 2006

Where the ocean laps the earth…there live the mermaids. “From the navel upward, her back and breasts were like a woman’s…her body as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long hair hanging down behind, of color black; in her going down, they saw her tail, which was like the tail of [...]

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