Scuba diving fans

The modern wetsuit was invented by the American physicist, Hugh Brandner, in 1952. One of the first (and very successful) wetsuit manufacturers was O’Neill.

Fiji is renowned for its many diving sites, though the Beqa Lagoon is the most famous of them all. With approximately an hour’s boat ride from the main island of Viti Levu. What sets this diving site apart is its unique underwater topography and colorful soft corals.

Sharks have unfairly gained a bad reputation thanks to the horror movie Jaws (1975). However far more people are killed by the lightning in the US, than by sharks.

Oxygen becomes toxic under high pressure. That is why special gases with lower concentration of oxygen are provided for dives deeper than 42m.

Three dives in one: anemone city, shark reef with its spectacular drop off and the wreck of the Yolanda. Everything in Egyptian Red Sea

On average you burn about 220 calories per dive. Cancun diving offers 2 tank dives so that’s 440 calories, plus the extra swimming and gear lifting – an easy 500 calories burned doing something that you love.

The Gray Whale migrates more than 10,000 miles every year.

The Great barrier reef is the largest living organism on the planet, with a surface area greater than England.

Shark encounters are one of the main fears people have when taking up, or thinking of trying, scuba diving. Many divers dream of seeing sharks while diving, but for some, it’s still a cause of concern. So it’s worth reminding them that coconuts present a far greater danger than sharks during a tropical vacation. Say what? Well, roughly 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts — they are really, really heavy and fall from great heights — compared to around 10 yearly fatalities from shark attacks.

Oxygen becomes toxic when under pressure, so at depths greater than 42 metres, special gases with low oxygen are used.

Sound travels five times faster underwater than in air, which makes it almost imipossible to establish where sound is coming from, as we rely on the time difference between our ears to do so.

Once you get below 10 metres depth, you can't see red or yellow! If you cut yourself your blood looks blue.