The topic of this week's Scuba Blog Review is Scuba Diva at http://scubasiren.blogspot.fi/. The blogger is dive instructor Poppy Julianna, and she has kept the blog since 2012.
This blog gives an account of the time the writer worked as a dive instructor in Grand Cayman and in Bermuda before that. While it is clearly a dive blog, and the posts are all dive-related, the topics are broader than that. The blogger writes about social issues like protecting sharks, gender roles, materialism, finding happiness, and other topics, while still remaining true to the dive blog theme. She also makes her opinion of dolphin and orca captivity very clear. Her latest post is a great video of herself free diving there. Check it out!
Most of the newer posts are from her time in the Caymans, with a few from other dive destinations in between. Older posts record her diving career in the Maldives and elsewhere from the very beginning.
The texts are easy to follow and fun to read. Well written, too. Some are very short, some are longer. While the blog is very basic, with literally nothing but posts in chronological order, it is the texts that make this blog worth following. Her love of the underwater really shows in the texts. There are definitely a couple of things in there that I will incorporate into my own dive blog. As a bonus there are lots of very cool photos, too!
Judging from the number of posts per year, she was very enthusiastic about blogging for a couple of years, but the enthusiasm seems to have since dwindled a bit, with over 70 posts in both 2013 and 2014, but only 28 in 2015 and down to only one this year. I hope this review will help light a new spark of blogging fire in the writer. There are not as many active personal scuba blogs out there as you would think, and it would be nice to keep reading her blog posts in the future, too.
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