Renate Herberger, Costa Rica's Mermaid visited us today on her inspiring and epic swim along the whole of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Renate mission is to show people that the sea is not to be feared, polluted and exploited, but defended, protected and celebrated. She hopes to open people's minds to the miracle that is marine life and to our dependence upon it. By appealing to governments, environmental organizations, businesses and the general public to reconsider relationships with the ocean and to inspire participation and action to protect it, specially through the creation and maintenance of marine sanctuaries. Renate [View Full Entry]

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2 days after christmas one could be known to have the christmas blues...more so if you have a cold and you cant dive...especially when the water is BEAUTIFUL! But at 5:30am I sprang out of bed knowing that I was heading to Cano Island!! Cano is about 2 hours to the south by boat from Quepos and is famous for its’ marine park for diving and snorkeling, and also for the pre colombian indian giant stone spheres found there. We had a mixed group of divers and snorkelers and we left the dock just after 7 and were at the island [View Full Entry]

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Oceans Unlimited has been bringing diving to the central pacific coast of Costa Rica for around 5 years now diving and teaching as many people as possible the joys of scuba. As this is a coastal town there are people here that have been diving for a long time yet have never had the chance to get certified. For this reason PADI offers the experienced diver program and this week we have been using this certification to get our local divers certified! As they already have been diving frequently after a quick review of the final exam, we headed up to [View Full Entry]

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Beautiful morning yesterday...and yes we are in October! With myself and dastardly Drew guiding, we set off into Manuel Antonio Park to find out what delights it had to offer us today. Our first dive around long island we opted for peaceful, relaxing as most dives should be to get everyones feet wet slowly! The first dive was pretty quiet . with some nice puffers, a small ray and lots of reef fish. During the interval we relaxed and decided to head over to one of the more adventurous sites " Geos' Ridge" named after yours truly ; ) ( it [View Full Entry]

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Advanced class, dives on the schedule Deep and photography. Deep up first, played around with our colour changes down at 95 ft and then made a nice multi level dive, watched some snapper and jacks before hitting the surface. Dive number 2 was supposed to be a first taster of underwater photography for my students. As an avid photographer myself its definately one of my favorite specialtys to teach. Underwater photography is so very different from photography on land. Whilst the fundamentals remain the same you have to deal with controlling your buoyancy as well as focusing on your subject! We [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 of the PADI Instructor Deveopment Course (IDC) begins. New Instructors here we go! On a bright and sunny day everyone sat down with their loaded crewpacks and materials looking through the schedule with anticipation about what is to come. Assignments were handed out intros made and the day was rounded out with a well done skill circuit. Lesson learnt: Don't confuse a DIVE ALERT with an inflator (ouch!) Day 2 After a full day in the classroom, interaction was the key. Morning was spent preparing knowledge presentation and discussing Discover Scuba Diving followed by Confined water discussions in the [View Full Entry]

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During the last week of June two instructors, Bob and I boldly took a step forward to benefit diving in Costa Rica. We finally qualified and made Oceans Unlimited into a technical diving center. Our visiting trainer from the states, Keith Mattson has been teaching and diving technical for many years and is an absolute wealth of knowledge so we were very lucky to have him visit us in Costa Rica to complete the transition. The week was very grueling with plenty of study and diving every morning practicing and teaching, deco techniques and deep diving. The end result being two [View Full Entry]

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We were in our surface interval just finished a dive and were checking out a new site that we had found just a couple days before called "Sitting Bull" when Bob, who was captaining that day, shouted down that he could see something in the water...a BIG shadow. Everybody shifted to one side of the boat and I jumped up to the captains tower to get a better view. And then I was it..the first Manta of the season. He was about 10 meters from the boat and only a couple feet from the surface, the was hanging just above a [View Full Entry]

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Finishing up Open Water Dive 2 with two students. Viz wasn't bad..about 35 ft. We were heading off the point of Punto Quepos at about 30 - 40ft when we start hearing a deep rumble. About 10 seconds later it sounds again but this time followed by the unmistakable sound of whales singing. Awesome. This goes on for about 6 mins. One deep and one higher pitched. When we hit the surface we find out that a cow and her calf had passed nearby. Definately a dive for the log book! By Georgia www.oceansunlimitedcr.com www.goprocostarica [View Full Entry]

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Ever since the Oceans Unlimited's "Battle of the Burger" 4 years ago, where 30 out of 40 people agreed that they preferred Captain Bob's Burgers, the BOB BURGER has become a legendary in Quepos. Now our Barbeques are famous in the area and when Bob asked Georgia or I how many people are coming he always estimates double the burger meat. This Barbeque I bought 9 kilos of meat to be added to Bob's secret ingredients, and on Sunday we had a great turn out of divers and soon to be divers! Thanks everyone for coming and thanks to Bob for [View Full Entry]

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