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5 Tips To Becoming A Better Diver

April 13, 2011

1. Be a Solo Diver: This rule doesn’t entail ditching your dive buddy and diving alone. By all means stay close to your buddy and be ready to help him. But as far as your own safety is concerned, pretend he’s not there or won’t be when you need him, in other words be self [...]

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Cool Scuba Tips We’re Always Learning

March 27, 2011

Scuba diving is just one of those sports where you can never know it all and you’re constantly learning new things. As you do different types of dives in different places or simply under different conditions, your experiences teach you more about the sport every dive. What’s more is, if you dive with different people, [...]

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Underwater Finning and Kicking Techniques For Scuba Diving

March 19, 2011

When we first start scuba diving we don’t put too much thought into how we kick underwater to propel ourselves. As long as we’re moving in the direction we want, divers just sort of kick their way around forgetting the finning tips first taught to them by their open water certification instructors. However, with time [...]

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Dealing With Sea Sickness When Diving

March 7, 2011

Don’t you just hate it when your all geared up and ready for the days dive, sitting in the dive boat when suddenly you feel that queasiness… mistaking it at first to be butterflies in your stomach, the excitement and anticipation of the dive when suddenly you realize, your getting seasick. The worse part of [...]

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Solutions For Foggy Scuba Masks

January 11, 2011

Nothing can ruin a dive more than having that white haze in front of your eyes throughout the dive. Foggy scuba masks are often the cause of frustration for divers, especially if your dealing with a new mask. Spit, as you’ve probably heard, is the most common foggy mask fix. But, if you’re like me [...]

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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, [...]

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Diver Fitness: Get Into Better Shape To Improve Your Diving

June 20, 2010

It’s always been debated whether one needs be a good strong swimmer to be a scuba diver and whether fitness actually plays an important part in this sport, cause of the weightlessness underwater when using a Buoyancy Control Device (BCD). But truth of the matter is that while almost anyone can dive irrespective of their [...]

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Diver Fitness: Prevention of Scuba Related Foot & Calf Cramps

May 30, 2010

The occurrence of a foot cramp or a calf cramp while Scuba Diving, is an agonizing experience, which most divers have faced at some point or the other. Often considered a nuisance, these cramps can actually be dangerous if they impede you from swimming against a strong current or getting back to the dive boat. [...]

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The Shore Way to Do It- Tips for Shore Diving

May 13, 2010

Shore diving offers diver a freedom unlike boat diving, unless ofcourse you own the boat. Apart from not having to take long boat rides to the dive sites a major plus for those that get sea sick easily, you’re not limited to the boats schedule and can dive for as long or short as you [...]

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