Rancho Santa Margarita, December 10, 2002—eScuba, Inc., a scuba diving portal, announces the recent purchase of the Skin Diver website from Primedia. EScuba CFO, Melinda Herndon, indicates “The travel, geographic and dive operator content and development available on the Skin Diver website is a perfect fit for our existing databases on eScuba.com. The Skin Diver information will be programmed into Kotie, our Virtual Scuba Instructor knowledge base project.” Kotie is a 3-D virtual Scuba instructor found on the eScuba site, whose knowledge base is constantly being updated to offer divers a central location for answers to a variety of diving questions.

eScuba will continue to deliver the Skin-Diver.com website and will make improvements to it by updating content and making registered user access area more robust over the next few months.