Diving in French Polynesia: a first-timer guide
Here we go for a final round of travel tips to go scuba diving in French Polynesia! I wanted …
A long scuba diving weekend in Reykjavik, Iceland
When I discovered I could fly direct from Edinburgh to Reykjavik in only 2h30 with a low-cost flight ticket, it didn’t take me long before booking my flight. Why, while living in Scotland, did I want to go to such a cold place on a short holiday? The promises of wild and almost extra-terrestrial nature and a scuba diving adventure in the clearest water …
Diving in Silfra: a crystal clear dive with 100m visibility in Iceland
Imagine being on an island in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, less than 300km from the Arctic Circle. It’s 8 am, you feel the frosty wind biting the skin of your cheeks and still, you’re putting a dry suit on, hypnotised by the blue transparency of Silfra fissure water. Ready? From the moment you put your head under the surface, diving in Silfra is 35 …
Scuba diving near Edinburgh: let’s explore the Firth of Forth
With the wonderful Easter weekend we had in Scotland, I felt so lucky I had booked 2 dives in Burntisland, Fife, near Edinburgh, just across the bridge. Crazy but true, almost a year after I moved to Scotland, it was only my third dive trip. I am still struggling with booking more dive trips around Scotland. Sure, diving in Scotland is a challenge, but …
In 2016, the world’s deepest pool could be in the UK
Fantastic news for all British scuba divers : the World’s deepest pool will be soon in the UK! This announcement is actually happening not such a long time after the opening of Y-40 in Italy in June last year. It is the current World’s deepest scuba diving pool. I took its status to the historical deepest indoor scuba diving facility Nemo 33 in Belgium which opened in …
Diving and Flying : 5 things you need to know
It is now so easy to fly to any country on the other side of the world in less than a day for a much accessible price than it used to be before. When you are a scuba diving traveller, there are a couple of things to know to make your trip safer and cheaper when flying and diving. The most important of all is of …
Announcement : Aqua Lung, official partner of World Adventure Divers
I have the great pleasure to officially announce the partnership between the famous scuba diving gear manufacturer Aqua Lung and World Adventure Divers. World Adventure Divers is going to provide content in French for the Facebook page of Aqua Lung France & Belgium. At this occasion, I will open a new section on my diving blog for the articles translated into French. In return, …
Diving in Scotland? Challenge accepted!
It was part of the deal: I moved from Paris to Scotland to finally live surrounded by the sea and go as often as possible scuba diving in Scotland. Of course, the water is not really at a tropical temperature but since I am a dry suit diver, what is the problem? Yet, after 10 months in my new country, I have to admit …
The quest for the perfect drysuit
3 years and a half. This is the time it took me to finally acquire my very first drysuit. Here is the story of my successful/unsuccessful trials of my early years of drysuit diving and my tips to choose yours. Every time I jumped in the water wearing a new one it was full of learning toward one goal: feeling good underwater whatever extreme cold …