Advantages: Good aid to water confidence Disadvantages: none
We have some Zoggs seal sticks at work. They are amongst our swimming tools, aids, toys. These swimming aids are suitable for children aged 3+.
These seal sticks are a dive stick aimed at encouraging children to gain water confidence.
These sticks are 19x3x4 cm, weighs 0.272 kg. These sticks usually come in a carry bag set of 4 different coloured seal sticks blue, green, red and yellow .Each one has a round blue head with black eyes and mouth markings at one end of the tubular stick. At the other end is a black seals foot. Each one has Zoggs printed in black around the coloured tube. They are made of a smooth plastic. The tube is a softer a more flexible plastic than the head and foot. These sticks are quite durable.
These seals are weighted so when thrown into the swimming pool they will sing to the bottom and stand ...
Advantages: Warm water, clear, lots of life Disadvantages: Some dives not that exciting
I recently did a dive trip to the Maldives, not a destination I would have planned on as I've always thought of it as a honeymoon destination. I travelled on a liveaboard boat, doing a circuit of dive sites around North and South Male atolls and Ari Atoll. Water temperature was mostly 28-30C, with mostly visibility of 15-25m. The weather was generally very warm, and fairly humid.
Some of the dives were phenomenal. The highlight was the dive at Manta Point (though it's best to point out that there isn't just one but several manta points around the Maldives, partly according to season). We had 20+ mantas swooping in just over our heads, hovering and observing us as we observed them! Our second dive there wasn't as good but still around 10 mantas checking us out over the cleaning station.
There were several other drift dives that were ...
Advantages: Huge fish and loads of them, Spectacular Disadvantages: The Price
commonly known to occur there, often being known to move fairly quickly across the hull, but not so much on the deck side. I think the current must have been particularly strong on the day I did this dive, watching the instructors and divemasters running the trip struggling to attach the mooring line, down which we would descend didn?t exactly fill me with confidence and I think it?s safe to say that just before jumping in the water I was close to being pretty much absolutely terrified. So once in the water, careful not to let go of the line we descended to 30m. I?ll admit the visibility wasn?t great (15m, compared to the 20m+ vis that I?d been used to all week), apparently due to the fact that the wreck is situated within the inner GBR and not the mid or outer sections, but there were fish everywhere, and the sheer size of most of them was ...
