Particle effects disappear too quickly

My particle effects for a wave spray effect disappear quite quickly. I want them to slowly blend out however it won’t work. Does anyone have any ideas?
Would be greatly appreciated

Dude, tweaking particle effects is really a hard job: there are dozens of variables to adjust, and their names very often don’t help to guess what exactly they do. You should read the Particles System chapter in the Reference manual: the control variables are better explained there than in the Scripting manual.

I’d like to thank you all for your help. I used 3dbuzz.com to learn more about the particle animator. I used the particle animator to make the particles blend smoother. If you use the colour animator and change the alphas from (0-4) The o means the start of the particle when its just ‘born’ and the (4) is the colour and transparency of the ending of the particles life cycle. SO if you reduce the alpha channel for 0 and 4 and a correct balance between them you get a smootehr blend and transition. Thank you all again for the help