diving guides

Scuba Tips: Fine Tuning Your Buoyancy

August 22, 2010

In past posts we’ve discussed the fundamentals of buoyancy control, looked at tips to achieve neutral buoyancy and even shed light on how to perform a weight check in order to determine the correct amount of weights one should wear when diving to achieve that buoyancy. But buoyancy still remains and issue for many divers, [...]

Diving Deep Is All About The Planning

July 29, 2010

There’s something a bit attractive, exciting and mysterious about diving deep, to or beyond a depth of 40 meters/ 130 feet the recommended edge of recreational diving. Intrigued with the challenge deep diving presents, divers are often tempted to take that all so thrilling plunge into the depths. However, descending below 40 meters with a [...]

What To Do In Case Of A Dive Computer Failure

July 16, 2010

Dive computers are rapidly becoming an integral part of recreational Scuba diving equipment, and most divers will seldom dive without one. However, like any piece of diving equipment dive computers too can sometimes fail, and if a failure occurs in the middle of a dive, this can often cause divers to panic. In the unlikely [...]

Diving With Disabilities: Out Of The Wheelchair And Into The Blue

June 15, 2010

Scuba diving is a sport that offers everyone a window to the underwater world, even people faced with physical barriers. The water which has always been used in physical therapy and recovery treatments, is a wonderful medium for those with disabilities to discover not only a whole new world but some freedom of movement in [...]

Brushing Up Your Scuba Skills: How To Deploy A Surface Marker Buoy (SMB)

June 2, 2010

One of the best emergency signaling devices that can be carried by divers ad we recommend that every diver carry this, is the Inflatable signaling tube also known as s Safety sausage or a Surface Marker Buoy (SMB). With the increasing number of high-profile reports of lost divers and serious surface accidents involving boats, the [...]

Scuba Apps For Your iPhone – I

May 21, 2010

While the Apple iPhone and iTouch have been gaining increasing popularity with the public, software developers have also been busy creating an ever-expanding database of handy applications for the iPhone. It was only a matter of time before developers began creating applications catered to Scuba Divers. There are currently quite a few apps already available [...]

Scuba Apps For Your iPhone – II

May 21, 2010

While the Apple iPhone and iTouch have been gaining increasing popularity with the public, software developers have also been busy creating an ever-expanding database of handy applications for the iPhone. It was only a matter of time before developers began creating applications catered to Scuba Divers. There are currently quite a few apps already available [...]

Scuba Tips: Diving In Currents

May 17, 2010

Some of the best dive sites in the World have underwater currents. It’s a simple fact that currents carry in food (plankton) to an area which in turn draws fish and more fish and animals that feed on that fish and so on, making it a lively dive site to explore. However, currents can often [...]

Fish Identification Guides by Paul Humann

May 14, 2010

One of the most popular and favorite Fish and Coral Identification guides for snorkelers and scuba divers alike is the series by New World Publications co-authored by Paul Humann and Ned Deloach. This series in its entirety covers almost every marine species known to man, which is why they are a must-have companion in every [...]

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