Scuba event raises $1,600 for Marine reservist's family (The Fort Coll
A fundraiser for the family of a local Marine reservist on his third deployment went over bigger than expected, said organizers of the event.
New swimsuits help Muslims navigate water (Contra Costa Times)
Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public. "At age 15, I started to cover, so I stopped going to public pools," said Siddiqi, now 27, whose parents come from India and Pakistan. "Most of my friends stopped, too. They felt self-conscious."
Where to learn to dive (San Jose Mercury News)
The Bay Area boasts a number of dive equipment stores that offer PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) or SDI (Scuba Diving International) certification courses.
Scuba business owner driven to suicide by malicious chatroom mob (Cybe
WALES, UK (8 May 2008) — A deep-sea diving expert whose business was destroyed in a malicious email attack took his own life after being bombarded by emails encouraging him to commit suicide, an inquest heard today.
Scuba instructor to sink fake UFO in lake near Kearney (Lincoln Journa
It’s a big UFO. Soon, it’s going to be at the bottom of a lake, where it will join a 500-pound cement turtle, an 18-foot fake torpedo and an Old Home bread truck.