Scuba Diving Blog & Forum
This MY Odyssey Liveaboard review reveals a 40 metre (131 feet) Red Sea diving safari boat for up to 26 scuba divers. With free Nitrox onboard to extend your dive times. Meals cater for all dietary requirements. 13 ensuite aircon cabins for couples and singles.
Bull sharks are extremely aggressive animals and are known to attack people, but not on purpose. Bull sharks are dangerous because they are aggressive creatures and because they migrate up rivers, as they can live in freshwater and salt water alike, which brings them into close contact with people.
Hammerhead sharks can be aggressive to humans, even when non provoked, and have attacked over 130 people, which resulted in 34 unprovoked fatalities. Tiger sharks are also aggressive hunters in the wild and can often be found hunting in the shallows off beaches in Florida.
There are hammerhead sharks in Florida, which include solitary great hammerhead sharks and groups of scalloped hammerheads. The huge great hammerhead shark can be found patrolling Florida’s beaches for food, which includes blacktip sharks. Whilst hammerheads come close to humans on Florida’s beaches, it’s rare they attack people as they don’t eat humans.
Hammerhead sharks are not aggressive to humans, unless they are provoked, and they are not known to attack people either. But hammerheads are aggressive hunters in the wild and can often be found hunting in the shallows off beaches in Florida.
Red tide cough is caused by aerosolized brevetoxins that get into and irritate your airways. Coughing and other symptoms from red tides normally subside after a few hours if you remove yourself from exposure. Symptoms like coughing are often worse for those who have respiratory diseases like asthma.
Miami Beach snorkeling isn’t that special to snorkel, as it is mostly sandy bottom, but the waters are warm, shallow with mostly good visibility so you can see the seabed. You will see reef fish, crabs and stingrays, and the further you swim from the shoreline the more interesting it becomes.
Red tides in Florida are caused by harmful algae blooms, which can kill fish, can be harmful to humans that swim, snorkel or scuba dive in the sea, or can make the shellfish and molluscs dangerous to eat. Red tides affect Florida in the months of August to November most years.
This Kona Aggressor II Liveaboard review reveals a 24 metre (79 ft) Hawaiian diving safari boat for up to 14 scuba divers. Operated by Aggressor Fleet with paid nitrox onboard to extend your dive times, meals catering for all dietary requirements, and 6 ensuite aircon cabins for couples or singles.
Liveaboard diving in Hawaii offers dives on sunken volcanos, dives with giant manta rays and whale sharks, listening to the singing of humpback whales, to seeing tiger sharks in the summer. A Hawaii liveaboard dive trip is the best way to experience the Big Islands’ exceptional dive sites.
Oceanic whitetip shark vs great white shark are two shark species that mostly do not come face-to-face in the oceans, as they each prefer different sea temperatures. Great white sharks are on average 3.5 times larger by weight than oceanic whitetip sharks, but they are both formidable carnivores.
A buddy line in scuba diving is a strap that physically tethers two scuba divers together underwater to avoid separation in low visibility conditions. A buddy line is even more important and is used more often on low visibility drift dives, as there’s more risk of being split apart in a current.
