scuba diving for beginners

How To Complete A 5 Point Scuba Ascent

August 12, 2010

One of the first things that is drilled into your minds when you begin scuba diving is the importance of a safe ascent from depths. And why? It all boils down to the physics of diving and Boyle’s Law. While usually, nitrogen is expelled from a person’s body during an exhale and through their skin, [...]

Common SCUBA Acronyms – II

July 19, 2010

Scuba diving whether recreational or professional is filled with acronyms making it confusing for someone starting out at the hobby. Here is a continuation of our list of commonly used Scuba Diving acronyms and their descriptions to help you get started. If you missed out on our first part click here. DM = Dive Master [...]

Common SCUBA Acronyms – I

July 18, 2010

Scuba diving whether recreational or professional is filled with acronyms making it confusing for someone starting out at the hobby. Here is a list of a few commonly used Scuba Diving acronyms and their descriptions to help you get started. AAS = Alternate Air Source The Alternate Air Source can refer to your backup second [...]

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 [...]

A Beginners Guide to Nitrox Diving

January 22, 2010

Nitrox diving is becoming increasingly popular in Scuba diving recently. So much so, that you can almost always spot one or two of those telltale green and yellow tanks that announce the presence of nitrox or oxygen-enriched air in dive boats across the world. Often confused for jargon related to technical diving, nitrox has actually [...]

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 [...]

Deep Diving: How Deep is Deep?

November 30, 2009

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 [...]

Is it true you don’t have to be a good swimmer to dive?

November 24, 2009

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 [...]

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