Do you want to know more about the Underwater World? Do you love to SCUBA dive? I look forward to the Scuba Show every year to learn about the best new places to go. Watch the video:
WHAT: The 2017 Scuba Show is showcasing the spirit and adventure of scuba diving with over 300 exhibitors, vendors and diving experts from around the world. The show will feature dozens of new seminars, photo booths, a real try-diving tank, cooking demonstrations, interactive art, more than $40,000 in door prizes and a Saturday night party at the Hyatt Regency!
Over 10,000 diving enthusiasts are expected to come together this weekend to share new products, knowledge and stories. Perfect for anyone who has ever wanted to learn about scuba diving as well as divers of all levels, the Scuba Show is sure to be an exciting and educational event for everyone.
I am looking for my 100th country.
I have not been to Papua New Guinea yet. I think I might go there next!
“Give your kids a week they will remember FOREVER!”
I so want to go to ANTARCTICA!
My final continent! Maybe this will be the year!
At the 2016 show, I met the team from Avalon Cuban Diving Centers and went with them to dive at Gardens of the Queen! I loved my live-aboard experience!
At the Scuba Show in 2016, I met the team from Pro Dive International and went to SharkSchool in Playacar which I LOVED! Scuba Diving with Bulls Sharks is an amazing bucket list adventures. Watch the video and read my article in ScubaDiverLife.
DiveHeart helps wounded warriors and others with challenges to experience SCUBA Diving!
At the Scuba Show, you can go to a lecture, learn about new gear and find you next favorite destination!
I love traveling in Indonesia. I cannot wait to go to Raja Ampat for the first time. The photos look incredible! Who wants to go with me?
Thank you to Tracy Young and the entire Scuba Show Team for another great convention! I cannot wait to get back in the water!
See you at the show! Want to see more of my diving videos?
WHO: Learn from hundreds of the industry’s top experts in scuba diving and destinations at dozens of workshops, seminars and exhibits.
WHEN: 2018 Dates: June 23 and 24 This article has photos from the May 6-7, 2017 show
Lisa Ellen Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she worked on cruise ships for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. She is the founder of the website WeSaidGoTravel which is read in 235 countries and was named #3 on Rise Global’s top 1,000 Travel Blogs. Niver is represented by Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary, Inc. Look for her memoir in Fall 2023 from Post Hill Press/Simon and Schuster.
With more than 150,000 followers across social media, she has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on Twitter and listed on IMDb, and is the Social Media Manager for the Los Angeles Press Club.
You can find Lisa Niver talking travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, Satellite Media Tours, The Jet Set TV and Orbitz travel webisodes as well as her YouTube channel, where her WeSaidGoTravel videos have over 1.7 million views.
As a journalist, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors and been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. She has been a judge for the Gracie Awards for the Alliance of Women in Media, and has run 15 travel competitions on her website, publishing over 2,500 writers and photographers from 75 countries.
For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty times.
Niver has published more than 2000 articles, in more than three dozen magazines and journals
including National Geographic, Wired, Teen Vogue, HuffPost Personal, POPSUGAR, Ms. Magazine, Luxury Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Club, Saturday Evening Post, AARP, AAA Explorer Magazine, American Airways, Delta Sky, enRoute (Air Canada), Hemispheres, Jewish Journal, Myanmar Times, BuzzFeed, Robb Report, Scuba Diver Life, Ski Utah, Trivago, Undomesticated, USA Today, TODAY, Wharton Magazine, and Yahoo.
Awards
National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards
2021 Winner: Book Critic: Ms. Magazine “Untamed: Brave Means Living From the Inside Out”
2019 Winner: Soft News Feature for Film/TV: KTLA TV “Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver”
2019 Finalist for: Soft News, Business/Music/Tech/Art
Southern California Journalism Awards
2022 Finalist: Book Criticism
2021 Winner: Technology Reporting
2021 Finalist: Book Criticism
2020 Winner: Print Magazine Feature: Hemispheres Magazine, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt”
2020 Finalist: Online Journalist of the Year, Activism Journalism, Educational Reporting, Broadcast Lifestyle Feature
2019 Finalist: Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment for “Ogden Ski Getaway”
2018 Finalist: Science/Technology Reporting, Travel Reporting, Personality Profile
2017 Winner: Print Column “A Journey to Freedom over Three Passovers”
Social Media Presence
YouTube Channel: We Said Go Travel (1.7 million views)
Short form video:TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts
Twitter: lisaniver (90,000 followers)
Instagram: lisaniver (24,000 followers)
Pinterest: We Said Go Travel (20,000 followers and over 70,000 monthly views)
Facebook: lisa.niver (5,000 followers); We Said Go Travel (3,000 followers)
LinkedIn: lisaellenniver (9000 contacts)