We piled the truck high with trash bags, gloves, leaflets on reclying, marine debris, project aware and the blue flag program and headed to the beach Playa Espadilla Sur in Manuel Antonio. At 9am we were about the only people on the beach, most normal people still in bed after a Friday night out. Doris, Alonso, Doris, Dennis and I were joined by people from Arenas de Mar, Costa Verde, Fourtrax and The Falls. We set off along the beach each armed with a bag and a pair of gloves on. The beach looks clean from a distance but when you [View Full Entry]

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About 6 weeks ago I signed our shop up for a bowling competetion, only 1 of us had bowled before....so we were a little apprehensive about the ability of Los Tiburones, our team name. I was only vaguely aware that there was a bowling alley in Quepos! But Quepos has Bobby D's, a proud relic of the Palm Oil Production company Palma Tica, that is being kept alive by Bobby, an avid bowler. Bobby D's has 2 lanes, and pin boys to place your pins up rather than a machine and Bobby himself, who writes down you score and gives free [View Full Entry]

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A week ago Georgia and I went up to Playa del Coco, a little town right in the north western part of Costa Rica. I had been there about 6 years ago and this time I had athe perfect excuse to return...a PADI member forum. We headed off in our rental car armed with plenty of driving tunes and diet coke (and of course our diving gear squeezed in the back...just in case!!). Afer 4 hours we arrived in Coco and decided to stop and meet some of the dive centers in Playa del Coco. Our first stop was Rich Coast [View Full Entry]

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If you are not a regular diver it can be a little difficult trying to identify what exactly you are looking at when you go diving. For example, what was that big blue fish that went past and why exactly is that red fish hiding in a hole? This past weekend we thought we’d try and solve some of those problems and encouraged a few of the local divers to take a fish id class. For our first specialty of the month it proved popular and Sunday morning started nice and sunny. The morning was spent in the classroom looking at [View Full Entry]

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I'm writing this from a different perspective as I unfortunately did not get to play in the latest escapade of Oceans Unlimited due to a recent mishap with a sharp object (say no more)! However, I did get to witness the fun that was had by everyother person while I'm hobbling around on crutches.....much to the amusement of others! This port cleanup was organized by our ever industrious Kath striving to save the environment in every which way that she can. Saying that....its definately harder somewhere like here where many people still seem to think that its ok to throw whatever [View Full Entry]

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I was at a loose end at the dive shop, a student having left me hight and dry, as I pondered between surfing the web and getting wet... I spotted a Project AWARE coral watch slate and decided to head to the water. There was a local dive trip going out so I grabbed my gear and headed to the boat. As we left port, I listened to the other divers in the group swapping dive tales of Manta Rays and BIG fish as I prepared for my dive spotting something a little less mobile. As we entered the water and [View Full Entry]

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The sun was a massive orange ball on the horizon as we headed out of the port we waved to the the tipsy merry makers on their sunset cruises heading abck to land. Meanwhile our little merry band of flash light welding thrill seekers headed out of port all very sober, but with the adrenaline rush of a night dive ahead. We all excitedly got ready, I breifed a couple of first time night divers whilst handing out the flash lights, they look excited though a little tense as they listened to me telling them not to shine the torches in [View Full Entry]

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A couple days I was diving with Trudie, an Open Water student, at the Aquarium just off the coast fo the Manuel Antonio National Park. We were nearing the end of our dive and I noticed out the corner of my eye an unusual movement on the sea bed. It looked like a sizable rock about a foot in diameter was moving up and down. I got closer and peered underneath the rock and there was a mesh of legs and suckers, but what was it and what was it doing?! I signaled to Trudie to have a look, and we [View Full Entry]

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Costa Rica, famous for sportfishing and diving in coco island. Recently it came to us via various fisherman, news of an offshore pinnacle. Finally i got a couple of friends together, got a boat and headed out there. 26 miles offshore. At a depth of 95ft at its shallowest point surrounded by sand at a depth of 130 - 140 ft " veinteseis" is no easy dive. We loaded up with ponies and dropped anchor. The current was ripping so when we did drop a rapid ascent was made. Once past 30ft the current prettty much dropped to nothing. All i [View Full Entry]

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Hola and welcome all to Oceans first official blog! We figured we would start the new season and new year with a bang and actually keep everyone up to date with whats going on down here in Manuel Antonio/ Quepos. We are instructors at a relatively young dive center down here and living my everyday sometimes adventurous, sometimes random, life working as a dive instructor and helping run the center. Our job is full of incredible buzzes and drops so we thought we would enlighten whoever wants to know on some of them. This year has already opened with beautiful sun [View Full Entry]

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