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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 [...]

Seattle Events: Pictures from Girl Diver Whale Outing

April 16, 2010

These are the pictures of the 30′ Gray Whale that washed up onto the beach in Seattle.  The GirlDiver team went out to assist with measuring the whale, but arrived just after the work had been wrapped up.  The 30′ sub-adult female was emaciated and showed signs of her last minutes thrashing about in shallow [...]

PADI Tropical Referral

August 16, 2009

Why sit in a classroom on vacation?You’ve paid for the hotel, done the research on the top dive sites, dreamed of swimming beneath the sea, probably even finished the bookwork prior to coming, and now leave via taxi to the vacation dive center in your tropical paradise. Meeting with your instructor, you review the completed [...]

PADI Discover Scuba

August 15, 2009

Discover Scuba on your next tropical adventure.The PADI Discover Scuba program allows you to scuba dive with only a brief orientation, quick pool session and small ratios between divemasters/instructors and participants. Typically, this is the “quickie course” offered at most dive resorts worldwide. It’s designed to give tourists a “taste” of diving, just as they’ll [...]

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, [...]

Seattle Scuba Instruction by GirlDiver: Size really DOES matter!!

July 16, 2009

Sometimes smaller is better. In the world of scuba instruction, there are three varieties of instructional programs. First, we have the MegaClasses. These classes are designed to push the maximum amount of students through a program in the least amount of time. There are limits imposed by certification agencies to number of students to instructors, [...]

GirlDiver Scuba Instruction: Exploratory Diving

March 3, 2009

I live on the edge of the Emerald Sea…otherwise known as the Puget Sound. We have “chosen” dive sites. The ones everyone goes to…and the ones that few know about. I have to believe there are even MORE than that, though. So, my team and I went for a dive yesterday at Lincoln Park in [...]

50 by 50

October 29, 2008

My friend (and student) Sacha Blue introduced me to a new way of goal setting. A goal is simply a dream with a deadline, so Sacha, at 28 years old, came up with the 30 things she wished for by age 30. Her dream list can be found here. I’ve passed thirty…and forty. So, luckily, [...]

GirlDiver Environment: Shark Fin Soup

March 10, 2008

My roommate came home from the Asian market today with a banana flower. This is the flower, that left to bloom and change, will eventually bear banana fruit. Not sure what we’re going to do with the banana flower, but I’m sure I’ll find it in a dish on a table near me soon. She [...]

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