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

Deploying a SMB- Surface Marker Buoy

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

DiveTime

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

dive signals

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

Scuba diving in currents

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

BKSR05

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 [...]

What Makes An Exceptionally Good Dive?

great dive

What makes an exceptionally good dive? When asked the question, most divers would answer, the diving conditions; such as no/mild currents, no-swells, perfect visibility and warm water temperature. But that’s not what we are talking about here. Besides water and weather conditions, what makes divers surface with a huge grin on their faces and go “wow, [...]

Scuba Basics: The Ins and Outs of Diving- Exit Methods

Scuba Exit Methods- Boat Diving

After you exit the bubble that is your scuba training, you’re faced with a whole world of different types of diving. You’re next dive trip could have you diving from a liveaboard, a small RIB dive boat or shore diving from a sandy beach or even an inland lake. Since chances are, you’ve only learned [...]

Scuba Basics: The Ins and Outs of Diving- Entry Methods

Scuba Entry Methods- Giant Stride Entry

After you exit the bubble that is your scuba training, you’re faced with a whole world of different types of diving. You’re next dive trip could have you diving from a liveaboard, a small RIB dive boat or shore diving from a sandy beach or even an inland lake. Since chances are, you’ve only learned [...]

Scuba Tips: Streamlining To Reduce Drag

Scuba tips- Steamlining

You’ve probably observed the difference between gangly awkward divers who shuffle and flap their way through the water kicking up sand and scaring away every creature in their path including other divers; and an experienced diver that effortlessly and gracefully glides underwater with only the slightest of movements. This comes from an understanding that less [...]

Flying After Diving- How Long Should You Wait?

Flying after Diving

Of all the Frequently Asked Questions in Scuba Diving, queries regarding the proper time to fly after diving is one of the most common asked. The dilemma usually crops up, cos as divers we are always keen to squeeze in those few extra dives just before we have to make the most of our diving [...]