Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Core Group Ltd.
• DVD Release Date: February 15, 2004
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001LASFK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,718 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Gadling (www.gadling.com) August 15, 2005

...a thoughtful, educational series of dive videos ... a solid addition to your DVD library.

...respectable cinematography and tightly written voiceover...providing the kind of useful context that all serious divers crave...

Product Description

ScubaCore: A Quarterly DVD Magazine for scuba divers and their friends. Four times a year, we will be releasing a DVD with over two hours of video content, with dive stories from around the globe. In addition, we'll be covering various news items that are of interest to divers. Our host, Anat Grant, will take you around the globe in search of fine diving, good food and a bit of adventure. Anat will also have some very special guests sharing their thoughts and exploits in diving.

Winter 2004 includes:

Red Skies at Night
The Cuan Law is a sailboat, a rarity amongst liveaboard dive boats. We dive the signature sites in the British Virgin Islands including the wrecks of the RMS Rhone and the Chikuzen, and travel to Sombrero, the "secret island". Bonus features show the island of Tortola and the Sugar Mill Hotel.

Mantas and Dolphins and Whale Sharks...Oh My!
The SOLMAR V takes us to the wild Eastern Pacific islands of Socorro and San Benedicto, where cleaning stations attract Pacific Giant Mantas. We also visit Roca Partida and see dolphins, whale sharks and hammerheads, all in the same dive! Extras include the Solmar Suites and topside fun in Cabo San Lucas.

Betel Nut Stories on the Mnuw
A pirate ship in the harbor, stone money, and Yapese cultural traditions intermix with a healthy dose of underwater adventure. Yap is known for its manta rays, but we dig a little deeper and discover magnificent hard coral reefs, walls and a macro site that defies description.

Catch the Spirit in Tobago
We visit the Peter Hughes Wind Dancer on her newest route in Tobago. The reefs offer colorful encrusting sponges, abundant hard and soft corals, and the world's largest brain coral! Join us as we dive around the entire island and see what it means to "go with the flow" in Tobago.

There are also reports on David Fleetham's underwater photography, a visit with John Ellerbrock from Gates Underwater Housings; and short previews of upcoming issues.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great shows!, September 29, 2004

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Fred Martin "Fred Martin - Scuba Nut" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ScubaCore DVD Issue 1 (DVD)

I really enjoyed watching the underwater footage, and the host isn't bad either. THe shows gave my wife and I the inspiration to visit the mantas of Socorro this year, so we're saving our pennies! It was like getting 4 half hour TV programs, a la Travel Channell, but definitely geard towards divers, and the host is obviously a good diver, herunderwater footage is awesome. I'd recommend this to anyone who is a scuba diver, and for people who just love the ocean. Looking forward to issue 2! The production on this DVD is nice, it's professionally done and nicely packaged, the booklet is a mini magazine by itself, with info and stories by the publisher, the host and the marine naturalist person. My only complaint is that this show isn't on cable!

Fred Martin

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent travel video for Scuba Divers!, March 13, 2008

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anonymous (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ScubaCore DVD Issue 1 (DVD)

Scubacore Issue 1 is a great video for scuba divers and those considering taking the plunge. Four different dive destinations are visited, each with their own distinct personalities and diving styles. Travel from British Virgin Islands on the Cuan Law liveaboard to the Socorro Islands on the Solmar V. Next the crew visits Yap and dives with mantas and visits the cultural centers for topside enjoyment. Lastly, the group boards the Wind Dancer for another liveaboard vacation to Tobago. At each destination, Anat Grant, your host, gives detailed tours of the boats and underwater life. Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, but always entertaining, the dialogs and dives are all spectacular.
This is the first of a group of 3 videos done by ScubaCore. Issues 2 and 3 are much better than this one as one would expect, but this one is still a MUST HAVE for any scuba diver.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, December 5, 2007

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Prasad (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ScubaCore DVD Issue 1 (DVD)

I bought ScubaCore Issue 1 because I wanted to check out the segment on Yap, and before I knew it two hours had done by and I had watched the entire DVD, special features and all. The next day I bought ScubaCore Issues 2 and 3, and enjoyed them just as much. The locations they show are really diverse, and having been to a few of those places, I can say that they are well-represented on the ScubaCore DVDs. The quality of the underwater cinematography is fantastic -- this is some of the most colorful underwater footage I have seen. Be sure to check out the special feature on sharks in Issue 3 -- it's obvious that these folks really care about the marine environment. I highly recommend these beautiful DVDs for divers and anyone who is interested in learning more about our oceans.