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PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty Course

August 11, 2010

What is Enriched Air Diving? Enriched Air diving or Nitrox diving is becoming increasingly popular in Scuba diving and refers to Diving with a special nitrogen and oxygen breathing gas mixture with an oxygen concentration higher than the 21 percent found in normal air. Ordinarily recreational scuba divers use regular compressed air in their tanks [...]

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

May 8, 2010

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

May 7, 2010

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 [...]

What A Scuba Rescue Diver Course Entails

February 15, 2010

As a certified diver, whether you are looking to take up diving professionally or just for recreation we’d always recommend you train atleast up to a Rescue Diver level. Rescue diving courses and training are not designed only for someone looking at rescue diving or scuba diving as a career, but for all those who [...]

Scuba Diving Ear Woes: Techniques for Equalization

February 10, 2010

Stubborn ears are among the top reason divers pull the plug on a dive. Sounds easy to do but we all have good and bad days and even the best of divers can have trouble popping their ears on a dive. But with a few of these tricks and advanced techniques, we hope that on [...]

Pre-Dive Safety Check Guidelines

December 31, 2009

The Buddy Pre-Dive Safety check is an important safety check that should be performed by every diver no matter what level of diving proficiency. This check is performed by a Scuba Diver with his/her buddy before descending on a dive as a final inspection of the dive equipment before diving. The Pre-Dive safety check ensures [...]

What You Learn As An Open Water Diver

November 3, 2009

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 [...]

Scuba Regulator Recovery and Clearing techniques

October 26, 2009

Even though Regulator recovery and clearing is one of the most basic things taught to a diver during his open water certification course, it is still a crucial skill that several divers are reluctant to learn or practice after their certification courses. Regulator mouthpieces get knocked out of divers’ mouths all the time, and can [...]

Scuba Diving Water Entry Methods

October 19, 2009

A question that gets asked a lot by beginner and intermediate divers alike is, what is the best way to enter the water from a dive boat or platform? The truth is, that there is no one good method, and the method one should choose is usually determined by a combination of the type of [...]

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