Our 10th anniversary season begins!
Posted by VanditKalia | Woof – I cannot believe it: we are going to complete 10 years, as of this December. I’ve mentioned this story before – our first year,we had 2-3 consecutive days of 10-11 divers and I was panicking – I stayed late in the office, obsessively double- and triple-checking everything to make […]
Skills vs comfort
Posted by Vandit Kalia | One of the most interesting things about the scuba training agencies is that they actually have 2 fairly contradictory drivers. On one hand, their goal is to set standards that let instructors produce trained, safe divers. On the other hand, since virtually all agencies these days are for-profit, they also […]
Coral bleaching
Posted by Rahul Demello | Coral reefs are the richest ecosystems on the planet. Giant formations built by some of the world’s tiniest creatures, these hidden worlds form tropical marvels that one has to see to believe. The biodiversity supported by coral reefs is greater than anywhere on earth, including the tropical rainforests. They form […]
Online Learning – the way ahead
Posted by Vandit Kalia | One of the downsides of being an instructor for a very long time is the tendency to get set in your ways and become resistant to change. To an extent, that is understandable: I’ve been teaching for 12 years now, and have, through continuous refinement, developed a method that works […]
Teaching kinesthetic awareness to students
Posted by Dive India | I know, it has been ages since we had a blog up here. I know some of you will snicker disbelievingly when I say I have every intention of being more regular. But until then, here is a change of pace. This article was inspired by a couple of recent […]
Goodbye, Ev!
Posted by Dive India | It is a cliche and a truism that all good things come to an end – but that doesn’t make Ev’s departure from the DiveIndia nest any easier. Ev aka “McNamanta” first came to our resort when she was just a wee bonnie lass and we had just opened our […]
Finally, some sun!
Posted by Vandit Kalia | It’s been a wet December and early Feb. Hell, it’s been wet and windy since September, come to think of it. The usual lull in rainfall and wind between Sep-Nov did not happen. That was good for Frodo and Sam, who enjoyed the cooler weather. Personally, I enjoyed this weather […]
Cut the line, David!
Posted by Vandit Kalia | Recently, I cut the mooring line we had installed at Johnny’s Gorge. We are going back to dropping anchor on that site. Ironic, really, if you know the background: 3-4 years ago, a diver roasted us on the Interwebz for not following sound environmental practices because we once dropped anchor […]
Update on Neil
Posted by Dive India | It took a recent visit to the website and a look at the Neil section to realize how amazingly behind schedule we are. The page still read “we expect to launch in October 2009.” I sure hope none of my former clients are reading this – in a past life, […]
New Site Discovered
Posted by Vandit Kalia | I just realized it has been a really long time since I blogged anything…. well, that’s the off-season for you. But this is the sort of blog post that is a lot of fun to write about, as we discovered yet another great site a few days ago. The site […]
