Limited Offer: Book diving activities in April and have your discount applied whenever you're coming! - Daily dives 15 euro with equipment included (groups 3+) - 50% off for all PADI courses (not for professional levels training). Booking via e-mail required - you will receive the number of reservation. See the full offer on the page "Prices"... #courses #diving #padi #XDIdiscount

A lot of people are wondering how does the way to start a new career in diving looks like. So we would like to explain the steps and studies within the program of package 'OWD-DM', offered by XDI. The package includes 5 courses, each course representing it's unique set of skills and knowledge: - Open Water Diver, - Advanced Open Water Diver, - Emergency First response (it's a dry course required to continue with a Rescue Diver training), - Rescue Diver, - Divemaster. Each

Imagine, you've just agreed with your buddy that both of you are going up, and suddenly someone else is catching your inflator trying to put you back on depth. Annoying, isn't it. But, sadly, may create a real problem - depending on the "imaginatory victim's" level. So let's discuss one popular issue named "i am a rescue diver, and i will help you". Though Rescue Diver Course is clearly prescribing all steps of help, starting with a problem identification and a correct contac

The box-fish has a shell made up of interlocking hexagonal scales, complete with a raised star-like structure in the centre that distributes stress across the surface. After dissecting the scales, researchers discovered a flexible inner layer of interlocking collagen fibres that are tough to penetrate. The armour of boxfish is so strong but at the same time very flexible! The hexagonal plates of the boxfish's carapace have been identified by engineers as a potential source of

Until recently, Nitrox diving was considered technical, but this is no longer the case. An Open water diver level allows you to have the experience of Nitrox diving or to be trained for Nitrox Specialty certification (EAN Diver). So what is Tec? Basically it's not referring to diving 100m deep or carrying many tanks on your harness. Many systems define Tec as diving beyond recreational limits, i.e.: - diving with multiple gas mixes; - diving with exceeded bottom time (so that

Yoke regulator 1-st stage - on left, DIN - on the righ. A DIN regulator screws into a tank valve, and a yoke regulator fits over the top of a tank valve and clamps onto it with a tightening screw. Yoke and DIN Regulators Require Different Tank Valves: yoke regulators use a more-or-less flat tank valve that has an o-ring pressed into a small grove on the flat side of the valve. DIN regulators use a tank valve with a large, threaded opening that allows the threaded post of a DI

Know how PADI cetification levels meet international diving standards. What's the difference between Supervised and Autonomous diver? Visit our Knowledge database! #standards #padi #owd

First diving suit was built in 1882 and it's weight was around...380 kilos read more on this fact in our diving knowledge database #divingfacts #factoftheday #divingscience #knowledgedatabase

First Egyptian Astronaut Candidate Akram Amin has posted video of his OWD course and boat diving with XDI. http://youtu.be/XcmKPVx9c88 #diving #xdeepimmersion #xdi #tiran #ourstudents

Our web-site goes multilanguage! Now it's in English-Russian-Arabic and with a new friendly interface. #web #xdi