New Conservation Internship

October 25, 2011
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This coming season we are going to be starting some new ideas and initiatives. One of these is with our new revamped Go Pro programs. As a 4 times winner of the environmental achievement award we pride ourselves on our dedication to the environment and conservation, however in the past few months have not been [...]

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Macro Hunting and Frogfish finding

July 19, 2011
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So with rains becoming more frequent , the diving is still going, because lets face it…you’re going to get wet anyway! We have lots of fun local trips heading out and after finishing a few open water classes this past week, all of our enthusiastic students had a great time with some even getting the [...]

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Scuba fun in Costa Rica with Oceans Unlimited

July 8, 2011
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To celebrate 4th July independence day weekend we headed out to Cano island on a couple of fun trips. Lots of white tip reef shark spottings ans some southern stingrays spotted cruising over the reef! With a sea horse spotted by one group and 3 seas turtles by the other we had a fun mixture [...]

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Open Water Course Fun and Cano Island trips

May 15, 2011
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So the past couple of months have been busy, even after Semana santa. We have been busy with some nice local trips, a few shark sightings and quite a few open water courses and referrals. Very popular here if you don’t want to spend your time in the classroom whilst on vacation, you can complete [...]

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Advanced class with music!

April 27, 2011
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Advanced class, dives on the schedule Deep and photography. Deep up first, played around with our color changes down at 95 ft and then made a nice multi level dive, watched some snapper and jacks before hitting the surface. Dive number 2 was supposed to be a first taster of underwater photography for my students. [...]

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Wreck diving in Golfito

April 27, 2011

Sunday dawned, and after a dive in the morning we decided to head down to Golfito to check out some new diving spots. Golfito is a small town in the south of Costa Rica very close to the border. The area is far from any existing dive operation but there are many tales of big [...]

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Ridge Lines and Snappers

April 27, 2011

Manual Antonio Park is still, in the world of diving, a pretty unexplored area. One of my favourite dive sites Geos’ ridge is a series a ridge lines running from one of the islands within the park and it covers such a huge area that we have hardly touched it. Thats where the fun lies [...]

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Snorkeling at Cano Island

April 27, 2011
Snorkeling at Cano

So coming into rainy season, one could be known to have the blues, ..more so if you have a cold and you cant dive…especially when the water is BEAUTIFUL! But at 5:30am I sprang out of bed knowing that I was heading to Cano Island!! Cano is about 2 hours to the south by boat [...]

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Billfish Research Project

March 29, 2012

Scuba Diving opens up a world of possibilities and allows you the chance to get to participate in some really amazing opportunities. I was able to take advantage of one of these occasions this last week by acting as a safety diver during the filming of a documentary about the Billfish Research Project. The Billfish [...]

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Manuel Antonio Beach Clean-Up!

February 27, 2012
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Oceans Unlimited hosted a, Project AWARE Beach Clean-Up, this morning in Manuel Antonio. Our volunteers did an excellent job sweeping the beach for trash! We collected enough garbage to fill multiple bags. The majority of the trash consisted of straws, plastic spoons, cigarette butts, papers, and bottles. We are working to make these beach sweeps [...]

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The view from Above, An afternoon with the our boat captain…

January 13, 2012
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Jan, 12. working as skipper almost daily. This afternoon was amazing. 1st dive. Punto quepos. 35-65ft of water. 15 min. into dive. My self as capt. I was thinking of my divers and their safety!  as always, When I was startled by aloud noise. sounded like a scuba tank releasing  air. i jumped up, turned [...]

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“Whale of a time” Scuba diving in Manuel Antonio

January 9, 2012
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End to the first week of the new year and what a great week it has been! We have had beautiful waters, great diving and to finish it off this week we thought we would go deep diving. With some of our PADI divemaster trainees on the morning trip we decided to hit a couple [...]

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