There’s always a fascination and illusion that Scuba diving means to dive deep. The belief doing rounds is that there’s better stuff to see, but this in fact is one of the most common mistakes of many new divers, as we’ve seen in Myth Buster: More Scuba Diving Misconceptions Dispelled. Recreational Scuba divers breath compressed Read more »
Deep Diving: How Deep is Deep?
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There’s always a fascination and illusion that Scuba diving means to dive deep. The belief doing rounds is that there’s better stuff to see, but this in fact is one of the most common mistakes of many new divers, as we’ve seen in Myth Buster: More Scuba Diving Misconceptions Dispelled. Recreational Scuba divers breath compressed Read more »
Shark Repellents Revealed
November 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Shark repellents are essentially any method of driving away sharks from an area or a person. Interest in shark repellents go back a long time where scientist and inventors constantly trying to create different kinds of repellents ever since the growing fear of shark attacks spread more through cinema and media coverage of isolated incidents Read more »
Scuba Jobs: Golf Ball Recovery Diving
November 27, 2009 By 8 Comments
Kit up your Scuba Gear, don your dive mask and head off to the local Golf Course to dive in the water trap on the 9th Hole?? Sound peculiar? Welcome to the world of Scuba Golf Ball retrieval, a little known scuba diving job which involves a lot of hard work but rich rewards. The Read more »
Is it true you don’t have to be a good swimmer to dive?
November 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The simple and most commonly heard answer to this question is yes, it is true; you don’t have to be especially good at swimming to Scuba dive. I’ve heard this said a little too often and surprisingly by some experienced Scuba Instructors which is a little worrying to say in the least especially when the Read more »
Scuba Tips: Diving in Kelp Forests (Part 2)
November 17, 2009 By 2 Comments
Part 2/2 of our two part series on Tips for diving in kelp forests. If you haven’t read the first part click here. Swim single file While diving in kelp, it is always easier to have your buddy or group swim single file. This causes the least disruption to the environment allowing the lead diver to Read more »
Scuba Tips: Diving in Kelp Forests (Part 1)
November 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
There is something truly surreal about Scuba Diving in a giant Kelp Forests, and any diver who has experienced diving in this environment will tell you, that there is nothing else comparable to navigating your way through giant strands of giant kelp through filtered streaming sunlight and observing these unique ecosystems up-close. Kelp forests grow Read more »
Thermoclines
November 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
“At 20’ on our first PADI Advanced Open Water deep dive, I witnessed something remarkable as we descended. Visibility was poor, but I could still distinctly make out a clear demarcation in the water which looked exactly like crinkled glass that was flowing. As I dived through the invisible barrier I was struck by two Read more »
A Closer look at Rebreathers
November 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Conventional SCUBA diving uses an open circuit breathing apparatus, which means that the air we inhale into our lungs from the tank is dispelled through the regulator in our mouth into the water as we exhale. The problem with open circuit breathing is that it wastes precious gas. Out of the air we fill into Read more »
Night Diving: A Descent into Darkness
November 5, 2009 By 2 Comments
The thought of descending into dark waters with only the beam of a dive flashlight for light, the eerie calm waters and the very limited visibility…
Read more »What You Learn As An Open Water Diver
November 3, 2009 By 2 Comments
If you want to try Scuba diving and are looking to take up the Sport, getting an Open Water Certification is one of the the first steps to doing so as we’ve previously mentioned in the post- “3 Steps to Becoming a Certified Scuba Diver “. There are a number of Scuba Certification Agencies that Read more »
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