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Among lots of green turtles and leaf fish and many other creatures, there are also two ghost pipefish at the Kuredu Caves. Actually, they have been there for a while, but we still would like to remind you about their presence there.
Sitting at about 11m depth, in a Halimeda algae spot and sharing that one with a green Leaf fish, these two tiny creatures spend their time hovering head-down (more…)
Josep has found his third Frog Fish on Komandoo House Reef.
During the last five years, we have seen a few Frog Fish on the House Reef. The first one was green and did not stay too long. Then we found a red one at the north east side at 12m.
The last one is also red and pretty small. Is sitting at about 16m depth in the same coral block where we can see two white Leaf Fish too!! Sweet!!!
We finally came to the last day of the Dusseldorf Boot Show Exhibition 2011. We hope that you enjoyed all the news, comments, tips and other readings at the Prodivers Blog, and we sincerely await for your next visit to dive with use here in the Maldives.
From all the Staff at Komandoo Prodivers, we wish you all lots of good dives and underwater adventures in paradise.
See you soon!!
Well, not the Jim Carrey one, but the diving mask instead. Clearing the mask underwater is “the exercise” to master. Is the A on the Alphabet. Every diver should be master in clearing the mask.
Remember: A mask clearing a dive keeps the fear away and the confidence alive. So our suggestion here is that you should practise that every dive. Why not? (more…)
Over loaded divers are, unfortunately, very common. We are talking about using too much lead on the weight belt.
The common misconception is that more better than less. Well, up to a certain point but not too much. Excessive unnecessary lead will drive the lower part of the diver down. To compensate for that, lots of air will need to be pumped in to the BCD, making the buoyancy control rather difficult. (more…)
There are several kinds of BCDs, or buoyancy control devices. Neck ring, Wings, and the most common in sport divers, the Jacket stile. Nevertheless they are designed to provide ample buoyancy at the surface and to help the diver to control and maintain neutral buoyancy throughout the dive.
To do so, the BCDs need to be inflated and deflated depending on the depth and other factors. Since the BCD is an air bubble and it (more…)
Yesterday we talked about the tank valve and first stage. It is important to keep the first stage interior dry, that is why there is a dust cap, also in DIN regulators. There is a reason why the manufacturer puts it there.
So when you finish your dive and after drying the dust cap remember to put it back where it belongs. That will prevent moisture penetrating the regulator, expanding is optimal performance and lasting longer (more…)
One of the most annoying things after a dive is the horrendous racket of some divers blowing air from their tanks directly on to the sintered filter of the first stage.
This is pretty unnecessary and not good for the first stage of you regulator. The sintered filter that prevents small particles penetrating your first stage, has been dry throughout the dive. Thereafter there is nothing to dry there. In fact by blowing like (more…)
This is a mushroom coral, also belonging to the stony corals family, and Fungiidae to be more precise. There are zillions of them all over the reefs. Some are round and some are oval. Their structure is very simple: Just a few septal teeth with a mouth at the top. For some reason, they are very often found upside down. If they stay like this long enough they will suffocate and starve to deth. (more…)
There are actually no rocks underwater in the Maldivian reefs. Everything solid that you can see underwater is either a coral or any human left over like, for instance, a wreck.
Corals there are either alive or , unfortunately too often, dead. Sometimes it might be hard to see the difference at the first glance, but if you pay attention and a closer look you will see that some corals that (more…)
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