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Designing the best scuba & travel adventures. Travel with an underwater photographer & travel expert, Kim Randall @scubagirl812

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🪽 Wings of the ocean, wonders beneath the waves! 🌊🐠

Meet the Flying Gurnard — a fascinating seabed explorer with spectacular, wing-like fins and a look straight out of another world!

And this is just one of the incredible encounters waiting for you beneath the crystal-clear waters of the Maldives. 💙🤿

🔥 Ready for your own underwater adventure?

📩 DM us NOW to book your next dive! Come explore the Maldives with us and discover marine life you’ll never forget.

Your next unforgettable dive starts here! 🌊

#FlyingGurnard #MaldivesDiving #ScubaDiving #maldivesboatclub #oceanicpulsemaldives

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Imagine an island in the middle of the Pacific, 35 hours by boat from mainland Costa Rica, untouched, a picture-perfect time capsule of what it might have looked like a million years ago. Cliffs tower above you, crags carved out by a millennia of ferocious currents, waterfalls a hundred feet high, and the local residents, the birds, the boobies, cutting through the air like a formation of agile pterodactyls, hunting, feeding, nesting. This is Cocos Island.

But beneath the surface is where the real treasures lie. Cocos is known to host an array of incredible marine life, including an assortment of sharks, rays, and mammals that all call this place home. Fish school in the thousands. Dolphins dance and play between your bubbles. There is also a teeming reef beneath the waves, including coral and sponges, hosting crabs, frogfish, lobsters, eels and so much more.

But let’s face it – Cocos is about the schooling hammerheads. Descending to a site called ‘Alcyone’, I felt a current that was akin to a freight train slamming into me at 100 miles an hour. It was the first time in my life I ever felt a current that strong, but currents are a playground for sharks, so I knew I came to the right place. I had an unforgettable close encounter with a hammerhead, which, by no fault of his own, could not see directly in front of him and at the very last moment veered upwards as he felt the surge of my bubbles. I remember placing my hand on my heart and exhaling in awe, knowing this experience will stay with me forever.

I want to thank the wonderful people I met and dived with, who made this trip epic in every way. Cocos will always be in my heart!

🎧Headlight - Muxibosh
🎬 Gopro Hero 12
📍Cocos Island, Costa Rica
🔥Trip organized with @designedforscuba

#cocosisland #hammerheads #cocos #scubadiving #diving

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Diving in the Maldives
#carpenovo
#maldives
#designedforscuba
#currentandreefbyt
#scubadiving
@Spacefish Army

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Some people wait for the perfect holiday.
Divers know the best moments are the ones you can’t predict.
Where would you take your NEXT BREATH ?
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#maldivesboatclub #oceanicpulsemaldives #maldives #scuba

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A baby black-spotted marble ray.
Quite and pretty #maldivesboatclub #oceanicpulsemaldives #maldives #scuba

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Is it a dream 💭?
Waiting for the right 🕰️?
Dreams doesn’t come true until you get to know it.
Dm for your next Adventure in 🇲🇻
Scuba diving 🤿 or surfing 🏄 we got you covered..
#maldivesboatclub #oceanicpulsemaldives #maldives #maldivesislands

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Just us, the blue, and a whole world of gentle giants below. 💙🌊

#maldives #manta #underwater #wildlife #underwaterlife

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Capturing moments moments like these remind us to slow down and be present under the surface.

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🤿 les Mimosas 🪸

Amazing scuba diving spot with gorgonians colors.

25 minutes de bonheur sur un fond de 60 mètres <3

#scubadiving #gorgonian #plongee #underwater #plongéehorsstructure

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Why would you even ask?
📍Maldives 2026 with @designedforscuba

@scubagirl812 @tiaterry2018

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Did I miss World Manta Day? Everyday is World Manta Day ❤️

Of all fantastic manta sightings I had, this one with a majestic oceanic manta in Cocos was unique and special. 😍

#cocosisland #costarica #designedforscuba #underwaterphotography #worldmantaday

📸 taken with @sony RX100VII in @nauticamhousings

📍Cocos Island 🇨🇷
⛵️Cocos Island Aggressor | Okeanos Aggressor III
🗓️ August 2026

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The bowmouth guitarfish (Rhina ancylostomus) is one of the most unusual-looking elasmobranchs in the Indo-Pacific. It’s actually a wedgefish, closely related to rays rather than true sharks.
#maldivesboatclub #oceanicpulse #maldives #scuba #viral

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