Tiger Shark Diving Bahamas

Our latest adventure has it all. We'll introduce you to Tiger sharks ( Galeocerdo cuvier ) and Great Hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) and Grey Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) up close and personal. Plus you'll get to fish for tuna along the way, snorkle and play with Spotted Dolphins and dive incredible sites, complete with wrecks, caves and more. Packing as much diving and shark encounters as we can into 7 days is what this is latest adventure is all about.

Dolphin

You and 10 other divers will join Shark Diver for seven days out of West Palm Beach Florida aboard the Bahamas latest long range live aboard "The Dolphin Dream". She is an 86ft expedition trawler re-designed to take 10 divers in safety and comfort. She offers you the most unique and exciting scuba diving available. The 7 day schedule is flexible, with a high emphasis on sharks and shark encounters. The size of this vessel and stablilty in seas makes her our first choice. She's like a Tahoe Ski Cabin, laid back, comfortable and very easy for our divers.

Day 1 Saturday

Welcome to Palm Beach, Florida. Check in between 4.00pm-7.00pm. Time to unpack, and familiarize yourself with your floating home for the week. Once you have settled in you are free to join us for dinner of fresh Grouper Tacos and a cool beer. When we return an orientation will be given on emergency procedures and shark diving information. We depart Palm Beach Saturday evening during sunset for our overnight cruise to "The Bahamas Islands". This a great time to sit back and drink a cocktail and meet your fellow divers, the next few days will be busy.

Day 2 Sunday

While your co-workers are drudging to work you will be shark diving with Tigers and perhaps a Hammerhead or two. This morning we awake on Scotts Tiger Beach and drop cages. The crew has been chumming since early morning. Tigers start arriving in the morning, typically we see anywhere from 1-5 sharks, and they are hungry. Tigers are different from Great Whites in many ways here we'll be in 15 feet of water with a sandy bottom. Cages float close to the surface and can drop to the bottom and we have Tigers chasing after hang baits right up to the cages.

Tiger Shark

The shark diving operation will last all day long with regular shark rotations and divers. If we feel like it or the action slows down divers can choose to run over to Muriel's Gardens where local populations of Caribbean Reef sharks swim close as you explore this reef. The game plan is to spend the entire day here where ever the shark action is the hottest. Note : Unlike Tigers, Caribbean Reef sharks and Lemon Sharks are considered a "safer" shark species. We do cage-less dives with these animals but always have a safety diver in place and do not chum on these dives. The encounters here are completely natural and occur because these reefs are pristine.

Day 3 Monday Tiger Shark Day

This is a full dive day with 2-5 dives including your first night dive (if you decide to). Wake up to breakfast onboard in the beautiful West End Grand Bahamas. As soon as Bahamas customs and immigration open at 9.00am your captain will get the paperwork completed, soon after we are on our way. This morning we will be heading north to the prime dive sites. One hour from customs we'll stop at the "Bull-Pen" it's a 60' dive with Caribbean Reef sharks, groupers, eagle rays. From there we go to colorful Hogfish reef, then to Sugar Wreck for an afternoon and a night dive. We frequently snorkel & dive with large friendly turtles on this ancient wreck that was once a 330' sailing vessel. Nighttime we anchor up in a calm area for overnight known locally as Dry Bar....it's only a short distance from our Tiger shark site.

Day 4 Tuesday

More sharking at Scotts Tiger Beach this morning. Divers will spend as much time as they like getting shots and encounter time with these animals. We'll be chumming all night long to keep interest high. This afternoon for a change of pace we are off to discover friendly Spotted Dolphins. These are wild dolphins who love to play and interact with divers and they congregate off the coast a few hours north. Dolphin encounters are snorkeling only, in 15-20 feet of water. The prime dolphin ground is an ocean paradise named 'White Sand Ridge'. Make sure you bring your fins along as these animals like to interact with the swimmers. We have an option to extend the dolphin encounter with lights for a night encounter or jump in on a night dive on a local reef the choice is yours by group consensus.

By: Eric Shark

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The History And Evolution Of The Easter Basket

Easter is a convergence of three traditions. 1) Pagan. According to the Venerable Bede, English historian of the early 8th century, the word is derived from the Norse Ostara or Eostre, meaning the festival of spring at the vernal equinox, March 21, when nature is in resurrection after winter. Hence, the rabbits, notable for their fecundity, and the eggs colored like rays of the returning sun and the northern lights or aurora borealis. 2) Hebrew. In Exodus XII we read of the night in Egypt when the angel if death “passed over “the dwellings of the Israelites, so sparing their first born. Hence, the Passover or Jewish Pesach, celebrated during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew year. 3) Christian. It was at the feast of the Passover in Jerusalem that Jesus, a Jew, was crucified and rose from the dead. A name for Easter, therefore, is Pasch, in various spellings, and churches throughout the East and West celebrate Easter as a major feast ranking with Christmas, witness “the hot cross bun” or boon distributed among the faithful.

Spring or the Vernal equinox was an important time to ancient cultures, being dependent on their crops and livestock to live. They prayed to different Gods in hopes that their lands would be fertile. The Spring Equinox is when day and night become equal and that meant that the long winter was over and that spring and rebirth had arrived. A connection to Easter for these ancient religions is that the date is based upon astrologic signs. Easter occurs on the Sunday after the first full moon following Spring Equinox. This first moon was a sign to the farmers to plant their first seeds of the season.
Easter baskets grew out of the Christian observance of Lent, giving up meat, eggs and dairy. The custom of having a large Easter supper represents the end of the Lenten fast. In more ancient times, this feast was brought to the church in large baskets to be blessed by the Clergy. Hence the connection to Easter Baskets today. It is interesting to note that the Jewish tradition of Purim which takes place at this time of year, is also celebrated with the giving of food baskets, and has Queen Esther as the heroine of the Purim story. In the 1700s German children in North America would leave their caps and bonnets filled with straw outside overnight and find colored hard cooked eggs tucked inside in the morning. By the 1800s candy was commonly included in the baskets. Along with the renewal of the earth the idea of birth and rebirth, the egg became a symbol in the Christian Easter celebration and is still used today. Eggs were painted and decorated and given as gifts. As technology improved there were hollow eggs crafted from cardboard and were filled with smaller gifts.

Our Easter baskets have taken many of the traditions of the past, eggs, chicks, rabbits and grass, which all had symbolic meaning and created the colorful gifts for young and old that we have today. These baskets can be bought ready made or created at home. Easter Baskets have been made and given mainly to children in the past, but we are all still children at heart, and who would not love to receive their very own basket of goodies.? If it was filled with candies and fresh baked cookies it might even be shared! If you have someone special on your list that would like something more personal, a basket filled with toiletries and gifts with a few pastel covered chocolate eggs scattered around might be just what the Easter Bunny had in mind.

By: Kristina Keffer

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Desktop Wallpapers With Flowers

Desktop wallpapers with flowers attending beautiful. The flowers attending admirable and the colors change the affection of the observer. How these wallpapers change our affection to good? Let us acquisition out.

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The Chastity Of Flowers - Flowers are one of the lots of admirable creations of god. Some flowers are so soft, that we abhorrence administration them, fearing they will break. The colors that attributes has corrective the flowers with are appropriately brilliant. We get to see admirable blush combinations, absurd for us animal beings to anticipate of. Flowers are admirable and lovely. That is why if we attending at them, we feel good. We feel actual active and optimistic. If we attending at a flower, the chastity of the flowers touches us and we feel that lot of acceptable is still larboard in this world. Flowers accept that bewitched superior in them.

How to Choose Annual Wallpapers? Avoid all exe. Files. Download JPG files. Never download from any apprehensive website. Chose low weight files. Select designs that are not chaotic on the larboard ancillary area you accumulate your icons. Observe this baby cares and you can do admirable things with Annual Desktop wallpapers.

By: Danny De

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You Like What? Learn More About Your Friends!

There’s no doubt that one of the easiest ways to learn what some one believes is to have them take a survey. And it’s better still when you have a fun survey or quiz to share with your friends!

The questions give you the chance to truly consider what you feel and think. And if you aren’t worried about being factual, it is a keen way to share those opinions and feelings with your kith and kin.

When we connect with your friends on social web sites, we can look at their profiles or ask them questions to try to learn more about them. More funny for all, though, is to take a survey or quiz and compare responses.

Most your friends don’t consider it effortless to simply name away interests off the tops of their heads. A list like that usually is dull anyway.

Have you ever pondered how many albino parakeets it could take to fly you a kilometer? Or how many angry monkeys you could take in a battle? You can find out with a funny quiz!

What movie, video game, cartoon, comic book, song, or mythological creature could you be? A speedy quiz would let you know – and then you can challenge your friends to determine their own!

Perhaps you always knew exactly what sort of superhero (or supervillian!) you would be. Share it with your friends and everyone else with merely a couple of clicks of your mouse.

Even if you can't find that ideal survey to send to your friends, you can do your own! Ridiculous, ridiculous, real or not, there is really no limit to what you can explore.

Whether you desire to get to know your friends (or yourself) better, or merely wish a amusing way to pass some time, nothing compares to a light quiz to get your opinions running and put a smile on your face.

By: Alberto Maeses

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Celebrity Super Heroes

What is our obsession with celebrities? Is it because they’re beautiful, wealthy, happy? These factor in but are not the main reason. What we are drawn to is the power they hold. It is their influence that traps us.

Put some thought into it. If they didn’t have such power and influence then why do companies pay so much money to have a celebrity endorse their product? It is because celebrities hold the power and influence to get that product sold.

“Our worship of celebrities does indeed turn them into the most powerful people on the planet…They’re the equivalent of gods in our midst.” – Psychiatrist Raj Persaud

Besides sponsorships, think about the influence these celebrities wield and think of all they could do with it. Celebrities like Bono, Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie often use their power and influence for good. Bono spends money and time on charities all over the world, Bill Gates sold his billion dollar company to become a full time philanthropist and Angelina Jolie travels to third world countries to provide aid and homes to children who desperately need it.

“Why not use your leverage [celebrity] for the good things, because leverage is used for the evil of things all the time. Stand up.” –Jamie Foxx

Based on the escalating destruction of our planet, we need celebrities more than ever. We need them to use their power and influence for the good of the world. They have the money and resources to do well on their own but they also have the special ability to inspire people around the world, from all walks of life. This is not to say they are the only ones able to do good. Only if everyone pitches in can we succeed in turning our troubled world around. Celebrities need only be the catalyst to get the people of the world together in a fight against the destruction of the world.

This does not only pertain to our environment. Third world countries need our help and in return we will be able to tap into the resources and the knowledge that goes along with them that may be of great benefit to the human race. We also need to bring to the forefront the voices of our underprivileged segments of society. The women and children of the world need to be heard.

Celebrities hold the power to turn heads in whichever direction they need. It is becoming more and more desperately obvious where we need to be collectively turning our heads. We need to make this a better world for ourselves and those who come after and we need to do it quick.

By: Stephanie Barker in www.articledashboard.com

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Art and Entertainment

Finns are addicts of every kind of visual and performing art and entertainment, and visitors are spoiled for choice in terms of exhibitions, cultural events, musical shows and concerts. The fine and stylish Finnish taste for practical design and progressive architecture, together with an unequalled enthusiasm for sports, a feverish obsession with literature, and an appreciation of an exquisite national cuisine complete a uniquely complex and lively cultural picture.


Helsinki and Finland’s other towns and cities are well supplied with concert halls and theatres, while cinemas show the latest international movies in their original language with subtitles in Finnish and Swedish. Finns are keen dancers, and your dancing options range from traditional outdoor summer dances, sometimes in lakeside pavilions, to night clubs and discos. The musical spectrum is similarly broad, with world class classical and opera performances at one end to jazz and rock at the other. Neither is there a shortage of galleries and museums showcasing excellent Finnish and international visual arts.

Something for everyone - even gamblers, who now have Helsinki’s new Grand Casino at their service. Grand Casino in Fennia Block, Mikonkatu 9 in Helsinki, has several roulette and black jack tables, slot machines and other games. There is another casino at the Hotel Arkipelag in Mariehamn. Both casinos meet international requirements

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