Padi, Learn to dive in Mazarron and Murcia

scuba diving holidays Well everone needs a holiday now and then, so here at subaquamundo we decided to take ourselves off to Egypt to get some diving done before the diving in Mazarron takes off for the summer. The weather was great, the water was warm and clear blue and there were lots of fish of every colour under the rainbow and more, even the dolphins joined in. We get Dolphins in Mazarron but its almost unheard of for them to come and actually seek you out while your diving, normally we just see them from the boat surface. Egypt was a little different as you can see from the pics. Diving with dolphins Bannerfish Diving with Dolphins... read more >>

Equipment considerations. When you begin your life as a Scuba diver you will soon become aware that your new found past-time is dependent on technical pieces of equipment and developments in science and human physiology which go hand in hand to ensure the safety of you and your dive buddy and also and your enjoyment of the underwater world. The first thing that you will be thinking is breathing, this is done by the use of compressed air in either steel or aluminium tanks (often called cylinders or bottles), these in turn are attached to regulators which deliver the air to your mouth (no breathing through the nose so this can be a pretty... read more >>

If you are over here on holiday with the family then there is a strong possibility that getting in as many as 12-15 dives in a week is not going to go down too well with the spouse and the kids etc… listed here are a few other things for the non divers to do or maybe yourself if you fancy a bit of a surface interval. One thing we would recommend if only for the view is to take a trip up to the Castillitos battery high on the cliffs between La Azohia and Cabo Tinoso, here are two huge 38.1 Vickers guns with a range of 20 miles and also several smaller guns which point out towards Cartagena built in the early part of the 20th century as part... read more >>

Learning to dive in Murcia, PADI enriched air nitroxSubaquamundo have a PADI Enriched Air Speciality course for 8 people booked in for the 1st of March (its on a Sunday) here in Mazarron. Why not come along and join us. The course consists of Nitrox theory where you will learn the benefits of diving with Nitrox, its not just down to longer bottom times and shorter surface intervals. You will also learn how to use the Equivalent Air Depth tables in conjunction with the Recreational dive Planner as well as using the 32% and 36% tables. For further information take a look at the PADI diving with enriched air, nitrox in Mazarron details on the subaquamundo... read more >>

Padi wreck diving speciality Murcia Fancy some Wreck Diving in Mazarron? then where better to start than right here in Mazarron, 2 dives sites both within 2 minutes boat ride from the Puerto are ideal fro wreck diving. The first dive site is El Bajo de Fuero or as is more often called El Bajo de Emillio. This site is ideal for divers who like both wrecks and marine life, El Bajo is 14 metres deep at its shallowest and goes off to being around 32 metres at its deepest, its basically a small undersea mountain and dotted all along its edges are the wrecks (about 20 in all) ranging from around 6 metres in length to almost 30 metres, mainly old decommisioned... read more >>