Barophile Divers
BAROPHILES; organisms which thrive at elevated ambient pressures. Offering highly attentive scuba and free diving instruction, education, courses and trips.
Awesome recap from our April trip to Similan by Marissa Lofflad and Adam Heath!
First Redang run of 2024.
Volunteering as a safety diver for a pool freediving competition.
Freediving courses - now available!
New YouTube video of our October trip to Pulau Weh is up! Please like and subscribe 😄
Revisiting Pulau Weh 5 years later October 2023 It's been five years since we last dived in Pulau Weh and despite the upwelling of cold ocean currents with water temperature as low as 22 degrees Celsius, t...
Another wonderfully foul-mouthed but educational ZeFrank video on corals! Really fascinating!
True Facts: Reef Coral is a Crazy Animal! Go to https://brilliant.org/zefrank to get a 30-day free trial + the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription.Donate: https://www.seawomen...
27 Mar – 1 Apr 2024. Let’s go!
Being a full time professional athlete is daunting. The least we can do for Azua is to get her a good cup of coffee?
Support Azua Shafii for her Freediving Depth Worldchampionship in Cyprus Hi everyone, My name is Azua Shafii. I am a freediving athletes and been actively competing since 2013. Freediving is a sport where you challenge yourself holding breath and dive as long as you can in the pool and or as deep as you can in the sea. I have set more than 30 Freediving records for Malay
https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/chinese-ship-detained-for-desecrating-british-war-graves This is so infuriating.
Chinese ship detained for desecrating British war graves Malaysian authorities have detained a Chinese salvage vessel suspected of looting and desecrating the wrecks of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, sunk in the South China Sea during the Second World War. Both ships suffered heavy casualties and are recognised and protected as war graves under the....
If you haven’t discovered Ze Frank, here you go and you’re welcome.
Made it super fun to learn about seemingly unassuming animals!
True Facts: Sea Stars Please check out https://brilliant.org/zefrank/ First 200 people get 20% off the annual Premium subscription.True Facts Poster! https://ze-true-store.myshopi...
DAN Dispatch: New Hand Signal Communicates Illness Divers learn in training to avoid diving when ill, but sometimes people become ill during a dive.
Underwater Animals That Look Alike Did you know there are nearly 250,000 recorded marine species? Here's how you can identify some common underwater animals that look alike.
Another four barophile converts! Especially proud with this group as they held steady in an actual emergency when our instructor suffered a catastrophic o-ring failure during the final boat dive, having to perform an air sharing ascent with the student including a full 3 minutes safety stop. Truly deserved the Open Water Diver certification.
Majority of the skills you learn in an Open Water Diver course is about handling all manners of unlikely emergencies - these guys promptly applied what they had just learnt.
Talk to us about beginning your under water journey via the SSI Open Water Diver program.
Learnt something new.
Been a while since we've put together a video - here's one from 2021!
Highlights of Celebes Sea Trip 2020 Snippets from our August 2020 trip to Sipadan and the islands of the Celebes sea. Can't wait to be back! Additional footage courtesy of Underwater Illusion J...
Fishy intelligence.
More barophile divers in the making.
Importance of weighting for diving. An often overlooked aspect of dive training. Thanks Side Mount Scuba Diving - Steve Martin for making this instructional video freely available.
https://youtu.be/OY-BAaXMJO8
BCD Failure : Single Cylinder This is Lesson 13 from our 100% free, 25 part online training series.In case of a complete BCD failure, this video proves why you need to be correctly weight...
Artificial reefs may not be the answer after all.
For Artificial Coral Reefs, Time Is Not Enough | Hakai Magazine Researchers hoped that, given long enough, artificial coral reefs would grow to match natural reefs. But an examination of a 200-year-old artificial coral reef shows that’s not necessarily the case.
"I was recently asked on a podcast what makes a product “reef safe,” and before I had a chance to answer, the host said said “this product doesn't contain the ingredients banned in Hawaii, so it's safe right?”
There is currently no universal definition for what is reef safe, but just removing a couple of banned ingredients does NOT equate to being reef safe.
If a product doesn't contain some harmful ingredients, I would agree that it's most likely reef safer but what really is reef safe?
To me, it means your product won't do harm. To me, it means that your product is readily biodegradable in the environment, not just wastewater treatment plants. To me, you should have some serious testing to back up these claims.
To the best of my knowledge, Stream2Sea’s entire product line is still the only on the market that's tested and proven safe, not just for freshwater fish and saltwater fish but also humans, and our sunscreen is even proven safe on coral larvae.
Do you want safer or do you want safe? The entire team at Stream2Sea is committed to developing products that are safe for us and safe for our planet, and we're always working to do better – with your help! As always, I remain grateful for your support and help educating that what we put on our bodies DOES make a difference!"
– Autumn Blum
Stream2Sea CEO & Formulator
Bad news for the COTS.
Scientists Built A Robot to Hunt This Starfish Crown-of-thorns starfish are large, spiny, and eat coral reefs and without enough natural predators to control their population, someone had to create one.Su...
Barophiles in the making.
barophiles in the making.
Why is everybody asking for our Leave-In-Conditioner? What makes it so special — beyond the fact that it’s reef-safe? 🤔
Most conditioners include ingredients like polyquaternium 10, propylene glycol and cylcopentasiloxane – any of which can make your hair look great, but are NOT great for our waters. Instead of using these synthetics, our CEO and cosmetic chemist, Autumn Blum formulated our conditioner with our signature antioxidant blend of green tea, aloe, olive leaf and holy basil, then enriched the formula with extra keratin and panthenol. She also tested our formula to ensure that it readily biodegrades in the environment. Our Leave-In Conditioner is strengthening, non-greasy and doesn’t weigh down even thin, fine hair – and still holds up to a day of masks and hoods in saltwater. It also does a great job protecting the hair from UVB damage! ✨
Check out the full blog here :https://stream2sea.com/why-is-everybody-asking-for-our-leave-in-conditioner/