Deefer Diving Carriacou

Deefer Diving is the premier PADI 5 Star Dive Centre on Carriacou. We offer trips to 33 beautiful dive sites on our purpose-built diving catamaran, dedicated customer service, a range of PADI diving courses from beginner to pro, as well as snorkel equipment rental & sales. Our friendly dive team is dedicated to ensuring that you get the best dive experience on every occasion!

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This week at The Dive Shop, we've realised quite how quiet it is when you guys are not here... so due to the lack of diving the team here have gotten on with a whole load of other things. Jon and Dean took the opportunity to service the old compressor, giving the old girl some TLC and dealing with the vibration issue we'd started to experience.  They also took the opportunity to try and fix the dinghy too. Nora went through all of our rental gear to clean and re-disinfect it all again, making sure that its all ready for you when you're next here.  Gary and Dean cleaned the garden (again). Alex took things in a different direction this week, and started making jewelry for gift ideas in the shop.  Principally using lionfish fins for inspiration, they really are quite pretty. Nora also talked about her weekend away with Jon and Yara on their first sailing weekend on 'Slug Hunter', their new sailing catamaran. 

Deefer Diving are a full service dive operation in Carriacou, Grenada. Established since 1994, we have been providing training, diving and trips from our base in Hillsborough to our myriad of satisfied clients and friends.  If you are interested in learning more about diving, or diving in the pristine Caribbean waters around Carriacou, the Isle of Reefs, then feel free to contact us through our messenger at http://www.DeeferDiving.com On this channel we plan to bring the experience of our professional dive team (but not so professional presenting team) to you with a range of videos and shows about the hot topics in diving, and diving in Carriacou. Visit our social media: Facebook: DeeferDiving https://www.facebook.com/DeeferDiving/ Instagram: @deeferdiving https://www.instagram.com/deeferdiving/

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This video is all about the marine life we love, and the hand signals we scuba divers commonly use when we're underwater. From the common to the uncommon, there is so much to see on the reef! As always, all the video clips are our own, and we had a lot of fun and many wonderful dives getting them. Thanks for watching!

In this video you can see the following species: Hawksbill Turtle, Nurse Shark, Common Octopus, Spotted Moray, Green Moray, Porcupinefish, Southern Stingray, Lesser Electric Ray, Sharptail Eel (Snake Eel), Spotted Scorpionfish, Peacock Flounder, Caribbean Reef Squid, Purple-Spotted Sea Goddess (Nudibranch), Mahogany Snappers, Trumpetfish, Queen Triggerfish, French Angelfish (intermediate), King Crab, Whitespotted Filefish, Yellow Goatfish, Lionfish, Houndfish (Needlefish), Caribbean Spiny Lobsters, Smooth Trunkfish, Spotted Drum (juvenile) & Brown Garden Eels.

There are way more lovely creatures than we can cover in one video, so please forgive us if we've left out your favourite creature... We've tried to include as many as possible, but there may be the possibility of a "Part 2" in a few weeks' time. Let us know in the Comments below, which of Carriacou's reef creatures you'd like to see more of!

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Carriacou's Weird & Wonderful Sea Creatures: The Snake Eel

Is that a sea snake? No, it's an eel! :-) Snake eels are truly weird & wonderful creatures. In Carriacou we often see them on shallow sea grass and rocky reefs, and they are always very entertaining to watch. This video puts together some of the footage we have taken of snake eels at our local dive sites: the species shown include the Sharptail Eel, the beautiful Goldspotted Eel, the Spotted Snake Eel, Key Worm Eel and an exciting sighting of a (probably non-native) Two Stripe Eel. We've had a lot of fun making this video. We love our weird & wonderful sea creatures and we hope that you will too! 

Scientific names for the snake eels in this video: 

Family: Snake Eels (Opichthidae) Sharptail Eel (Myrichthys breviceps) Goldspotted Eel (Myrichthys ocellatus) Spotted Snake Eel (Ophichthus ophis) Key Worm Eel (Ahlia egmontis) Two Stripe Eel (Callechelys bilinearis)

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Carriacou's Weird & Wonderful Sea Creatures: The Flying Gurnard

In this video we are taking a closer look at the Flying Gurnard. The Flying Gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans) is a beautiful, unusual looking fish, frequently seen around anchorages in this part of the Caribbean. When on the move they open their blue-edged pectoral fins like "wings" in a wonderful display that is meant to deter potential predators. They are not like the silvery flying fish you see skipping along the surface (that's usually the Mirrorwing Flying Fish, Hirundichtys speculiger). The Fying Gurnard is heavier-set, and is usually found on the bottom in sand and sea grass areas. The name "gurnard" derives from the French, "to grunt", and refers to the sound the gurnard can make when threatened or annoyed. Did you know that Flying Gurnards can grow up to a whopping 20 inches in length? Their displays entertain divers & snorkellers alike, and make them some of our favourite creatures to see underwater!

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Are you thinking about becoming a dive professional?  Thinking about starting your Dive Master course?  There is a lot more to this development program than many students expect, so here are our 5 Top Tips for how you can get the most from your Dive Master program...What were your key learning experiences if you've already done the course? What are you hoping to learn if you're about to embark on one - leave your comments below

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Another look at some of the strange and wonderful reef creatures we find in the waters around Carriacou.  Today, Alex is talking about the Lesser Electric Ray.These little buddies can pack a little electrical wallop when agitated, but make for an amazing find on the sandy patches near our reefs. Have you seen a Lesser Electric Ray on your dives? Wishing you all a great diving day! <3

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We love the idea behind the original Hollis Explorer eSCR.  It was intended as a hybrid recreational rebreather which could straddle the divide between recreational simplicity and (almost) bubble free diving.  It was a shame the product was abandoned before it could be made to work effectively. In 2018 we upgraded two of our Explorer units to full mechanical CCR's with the help of the guys at KISS Rebreathers (https://www.kissrebreathers.com) as we installed their conversion kit.  Following training with Doug Ebersole in Carriacou, we've never looked back!  Still with the limitations of a recreational rebreather, our Explorers are back in the environment they were intended to be in - the water.  We've logged more than 250 dives on each of these units and they've never missed a beat. What is your experience with the Hollis Explorer? Have you dives with a converted Explorer to CCR? We'd love your feedback.  If you have any questions about the conversion, we're happy to give you our experience or point you at the guys from KISS. A big thanks also to the guys a KIWIDIVERS (https://kiwidiver.com) for the use of their pre-conversion Hollis Explorer footage.  They're a great bunch of guys in Phuket and well worth checking out too. - Deefer Diving are a full service dive operation in Carriacou, Grenada.  Established since 1994, we have been providing training, diving and trips from our base in Hillsborough to our myriad of satisfied clients and friends.  If you are interested in learning more about diving, or diving in the pristine Caribbean waters around Carriacou, the Isle of Reefs, then feel free to contact us through our messenger at http://www.DeeferDiving.com On this channel we plan to bring the experience of our professional dive team (but not so professional presenting team) to you with a range of videos and shows about the hot topics in diving, and diving in Carriacou. Visit our social media: Facebook: DeeferDiving https://www.facebook.com/DeeferDiving/ Instagram: @deeferdiving https://www.instagram.com/deeferdiving/

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This weekend Shearwater launched their newest dive computer, the Shearwater Peregrine.  We've been asked by some of our subscribers about our thoughts on the new product, and whilst I have some concerns about the timing of the launch, I think its likely to be another cracking product by Canadian firm Shearwater.  It's aimed at the mid-market tech-reational set and comes with more that a passing nod to the Shearwater Perdix and Petrel2 in terms of style, display and software. In this video, Gary compares the Shearwater Peregrine against some other popular models it might be competing against, including the Mares Quad Air, DeepBlu Cosmiq+ and the Suunto Eon Core, to see where it might fit into the market at its launch price of $450.  Check out the key features and thoughts here... We're looking forward to doing our first hands on review as soon as we can get our sticky mitts on one too.  What are your thoughts? Are Shearwater on the money? Or were you looking for a different product? - Deefer Diving are a full service dive operation in Carriacou, Grenada.  Established since 1994, we have been providing training, diving and trips from our base in Hillsborough to our myriad of satisfied clients and friends.  If you are interested in learning more about diving, or diving in the pristine Caribbean waters around Carriacou, the Isle of Reefs, then feel free to contact us through our messenger at http://www.DeeferDiving.com

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Close your eyes and imagine being on a dive boat out on the ocean.  Its a fairly small group and people with you and you're all about to start preparing for your first dive of the day.  Feel the ocean breeze on your face and the warm sense of excitement about the adventure you're about to have.... Have you ever had the moment broken by "that" diver.  You know the one.  The one who...... Yes we've all encountered those divers who, perhaps do not realise the impact they have on other people.  So in this series of short videos we try to present to you those diver behaviours which are designed to annoy other people on the boat.  If you recognise any of these characteristics in your own diving.... then you might be "That Diver"..... - Deefer Diving are a full service dive operation in Carriacou, Grenada.  Established since 1994, we have been providing training, diving and trips from our base in Hillsborough to our myriad of satisfied clients and friends.  If you are interested in learning more about diving, or diving in the pristine Caribbean waters around Carriacou, the Isle of Reefs, then feel free to contact us through our messenger at http://www.DeeferDiving.com

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As dive instructors, there are courses we love to teach and the reasons we love to teach them might surprise you too.  Here Alex and Nora talk about their favourite courses and why they enjoy them so much.  Ultimately, the reward from being a diving instructor is being party to your transformation and the emotions you go through during this process... If you're a dive instructor, what's your favourite course to teach?  If you're a diver, what was your favourite course, and how much of that was because of your instructor?  We'd love to read your comments. - Deefer Diving are a full service dive operation in Carriacou, Grenada.  Established since 1994, we have been providing training, diving and trips from our base in Hillsborough to our myriad of satisfied clients and friends.  If you are interested in learning more about diving, or diving in the pristine Caribbean waters around Carriacou, the Isle of Reefs, then feel free to contact us through our messenger at http://www.DeeferDiving.com

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Do you hanker for some warm, tropical water diving? Stepping into the clear blue waters of the Caribbean perhaps? Do you notice it doesn't always stay warm for long though?

Today, Andre and Alex talk about the need for wetsuits even when diving in the tropics, but also about the wetsuits they prefer to dive in and why.

They had a lot of fun pulling this video together, watch to the end to see Andre being our Diva Diver :)

Tell us about the exposure protection suit you use and why its the best for you in tropical waters.

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18 Questions for a Scuba Diving Instructor. Fun interview with Deefer Diving’s Shanna Clark.

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Today, our technical instructor and equipment technicial, Jon, presents an a review of the most popular fins on the market today, with links below to where you too can buy these fins.  Give us your thoughts on your favourite fins or why you think Jon is right or wrong.  Make sure you watch to the end to see what Jon really thinks about the various fins in the water!! Deefer Diving are a full service dive operation in Carriacou, Grenada.  Established since 1994, we have been providing training, diving and trips from our base in Hillsborough to our myriad of satisfied clients and friends.  If you are interested in learning more about diving, or diving in the pristine Caribbean waters around Carriacou, the Isle of Reefs, then feel free to contact us through our messenger at http://www.DeeferDiving.com ====================================================== Mares Avanti Quattro - https://www.leisurepro.com/p-mrsfaqp/... Cressi Ara - https://www.leisurepro.com/p-csbfahb/... Tusa Xpert Zoom Z3 - www.leisurepro.com/p-tbtf15/tusa-x-pert-zoom--open-heel-split-finsz3 Mares Avanti Full Foot - https://www.leisurepro.com/p-mrsfasc/... Scubapro Seawing Nova - https://www.leisurepro.com/p-scpfsn/s... Scubapro Jetfin - https://www.leisurepro.com/p-scpfj/sc... Cressi Clio - https://www.leisurepro.com/p-csbfc/cr...

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Welcome to Deefer Diving's  new YouTube channel, D for Diving.  On this channel we plan to bring the experience of our professional dive team (but not so professional presenting team) to you with a range of videos and shows about the hot topics in diving, and diving in Carriacou.

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Fun days diving with the team from Deefer Diving in Carriacou, Grenada

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3 Best BCD types available for Divers, as presented by Jon Wright.

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Happy Days with Eagle Rays and sunny haze, all while diving in Carriacou