A weight belt is a standard piece of equipment for any Recreational Freediver. You may have seen many different types of weight belts and weight systems out there and you may have also noticed that Freedivers typically favour a rubber belt, rather than the traditional […]

About 18 months ago, a small group of grey nurse sharks were spotted at the Gravel Loader dive site in Shell Harbour. This was around the same time that the number of Grey Nurse sharks normally seen at the Magic Point dive site off Maroubra […]

How to Understand Diving Conditions?  As the weekend is just around the corner, I can imagine there are more than a few of you scanning the Abyss Calendar page planning your next dive. I’m sure there’s even more of you out there that have arrived […]

Raja Ampat has been one of the most widely discussed dive areas over the past few years. Situated in the Coral Triangle (an area in the western Pacific Ocean which includes the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Solomon […]

Position: General Manager PADI Certification: Master Instructor Rachael has been with Abyss Scuba Diving from day one. With a love of the water as a teenager representing Australia in the Pacific School games, she learnt to dive when she was 15 years old. After school, she […]

A dive centre is unique in the way that four separate pillars support the centre's activities. These four pillars are training, entertaining, travel and retail sales. Each of these is focused on one key component, the diving. The big advantage that I see to Abyss […]

The PADI freediving program is an exciting new way program which can help grow the profitability of any PADI dive centre.  With time scuba divers do burn out and need variety and challenges to maintain them as active divers. Freediving is a way to reignite […]

PADI’s EVE is a robust software system designed by dive centre managers for dive centres. There are milliards of point of sales software packages about but very few, if any integrate all aspects of dive centre activities enabling the dive centre to maximise the benefits […]

DEMA also provides far-reaching services that help improve the industry for all stakeholders including PR coverage for diving, legislative and environmental monitoring and an annual trade show to help foster buying and selling, face-to-face networking and educational growth. For dive centres in Australia, at the moment […]

If you haven’t experienced motion sickness, it doesn’t mean you never will – it’s possible that you’re just yet to be subjected to conditions that your body doesn’t like. That’s why it’s important to be prepared with these simple tips, and know what to do […]