A Seoul office worker with 100 logged dives explains the four seasons of the Korean sea and the two things to prepare before you jump in.
Monthly Archives: 7월 2026
Six PADI specialty courses — from drysuit to DSMB — that turn Korea’s cold, deep, beautiful ocean into your home diving ground.
One July morning at Namae Beach, divers from Fourth Element, Peugeot and NB Divers pulled ghost nets from the East Sea and freed the fish still alive inside.
An honest look at dive centers and dive clubs — safety, teaching, community and cost — so you can choose where to start scuba diving in Korea.
The divers who glide effortlessly and surface with air to spare aren’t stronger — they’ve mastered buoyancy, the one skill that changes every dive.
Gear Guide · Your First Mask How To Choose A Scuba Diving Mask A green lens for a green sea sounds wrong. It isn’t. Here is what twenty years of teaching in Korean water taught us about picking the one piece of gear you look through on every single dive. too many masks, one face […]
Life · Diving as a Parent Scuba Diving For Busy Moms:The Case For Your Own Water A mother of two, a PADI Divemaster, and roughly zero spare hours a week. Here is how she keeps diving anyway — and why she thinks every parent should. the mom who is also a diver She Packs The […]
Level Up · Advanced Open Water Advanced Open Water Diver:The Start Of New Exploration The best site on the trip was a little too deep, and your certification stopped at the surface of it. This is the course that opens the door. the diver left on the boat The One Point Everybody Came For,And You […]
Dive Korea · East Sea East Sea Water Temperature IsWarmer Than You Think A freediving and mermaid instructor braced herself for a cold, murky Korean sea. She surfaced from her first East Sea scuba dive with a very different story. the diver everybody warned Everyone Had A StoryAbout The Cold Rena Park teaches freediving and […]
Diver Stories · The East Sea Her First TimeDiving In Korea An SSI instructor with 1,500 tropical dives came home expecting cold, murky water and awkward strangers. She found none of it. the sea you never bothered to visit The Ocean EveryoneHas An Opinion About Ask around a dive shop about Korean water and you […]










