Events Archive

Sport Diver Awards 2012

Simply Scuba needs your help again. Sport Diver has opened up the voting for their 2012 awards covering a range of categories from Best Manufacturer to Best Dive-related Website. We fall into the Best Retailer and Best Dive-related Website categories so if you think we should win in either or even both of these categories [...]
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Resort opens marine biology centre

A luxury resort in the Maldives has set up a facility to aid research into whale sharks that inhabit the waters around the South Ari Atoll. Diva Maldives has opened the Marine Biology Centre to raise community awareness about whale sharks and give its guests a chance to take part in ongoing studies into the world’s [...]
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Beachwater Big Weekend – This Saturday

The Beachwater coastal environmental initiative which organises local individuals, groups and communities into getting together and cleaning up their local beaches is now in it’s 18th year. The annual event takes place on the third weekend of september every year. During the event data is collected which is used in the Marine Conservation Societies Beachwater Big [...]
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The Weirder Side of Scuba Records

We regularly hear of new scuba and apnea diving record attempts but its well known that the Guinness World Records holds more than its fair share of wackier records like the ‘Loudest Purr by a Cat’. So what other diving related records are in there? Well here’s some for you: Fastest 100m hurdles wearing swim fins The female [...]
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Have you heard about The Great British Dive??

The dive will take place on the 24th Sept 2011 off Swanage beach in Dorset with the aim of breaking a few records. The current world record for the ‘most peoplescuba diving’ is probably a little bit ambitious this year at 2486, but we can certainly achieve a British record hence the name ‘The Great [...]
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Lloyd Scott To Retire After Repeating His Diving Suit Marathon

Lloyd Scott who is famous for completing various crazy challenges for charity is set to retire after completing next years London marathon. Lloyd Scott has become famous not because of the challenges he has completed but how he has completed them, for instance, the London Marathon as the iron giant! Here are some of the [...]
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Bite-Back at Cancer Fiji Raffle

Bite-Back have just announced that following Fiji’s sponsorship of the Bite-Back at Cancer Ball, Tourism Fiji have generously donated an incredible holiday for two (including flights, accommodation and diving) as a raffle prize. Raffle tickets are available to all at www.bitebackatcancer.org/fiji with each ticket costing a mere £10 – the catch is that there are only [...]
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New diver trail opened in Plymouth

A new diver trail opened on the protected 17th century Coronation warship wreck off Plymouth is attracting a huge number of diving enthusiasts. The 90-gun Second Rate warship, which sank in the year 1691, was one of the first wrecks to be designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. The dive site in Devon was opened [...]
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Our Oceans Are In Decline

According to a panel of experts in the field, the worlds oceans are in a worse state than was thought. In a recent report carried out by the Internation Programme on the State of the Ocean (ISPO) they warned that ocean life is “at high risk of entering a phrase of extinction of marine species unprecendented [...]
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Bite Back Cancer Ball

Bite-Back has announced that tickets for their increasingly popular Cancer Ball are now on sale and it is to be held once again aboard the decommissioned ferry, RS Hispaniola, which is permanantly moored on the river Thames, right opposite the London Eye. There are up to 130 tickets available for purchase with the proceeds from the [...]
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