How To Be A Better Dive Buddy To Yourself And Others

Scuba diving tips

Scuba diving is a sport just like any, that comes with risks. Anyone, no matter how experienced can have a bad day or have something go wrong during a dive. However as divers, we are first trained to deal with difficulties and different scenarios, relying on your dive buddy for help. That’s why you always [...]

Dealing With Underwater Currents When Scuba Diving

Diving with Underwater currents

Some of the best dive sites in the World have underwater currents. It’s the 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 [...]

5 Tips To Becoming A Better Diver

Scuba diving tips

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 [...]

Cool Scuba Tips We’re Always Learning

Scuba diving tips and tricks

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, [...]

Dealing With Sea Sickness When Diving

Mal de Mer

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 [...]

How Not To Get Lost While Scuba Diving: Underwater Navigation Tips

Christoffer Counting Kick Cycles and Asaf Navigating

Navigation underwater is often one of the hardest things for a new scuba diver to grasp, and even for advanced scuba divers to get the hang of, especially when diving new sites. We are so used to following a Dive Master or dive guide that we often  don’t even bother to get our bearings or [...]

A Lesson In Diver Responsibility- Don’t Play Follow The Leader

Diver responsibility- Don't follow the leader

Talking to divers on my last dive trip, I noticed a disturbing trend. In a discussion about deep dives, a novice diver pipped in that he had once dived to a depth of 45 meters (147 feet) with regular air, on his last dive trip. Knowing he hadn’t very many dives under his belt, I [...]

Two Ways Of Reducing Jaw Fatigue When Scuba Diving

Jaw fatigue when scuba diving

Have you ever felt like you still have a regulator in your mouth after a dive? Or that every time you turn your head underwater it feels like the regulator wants to pull out of your mouth? So you grip it tighter, clenching your teeth around the mouthpiece to hold it in place. Does you [...]

Solutions For Foggy Scuba Masks

Foggy scuba mask solutions

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 [...]

How Far Will You Go To Stretch Your Tank of Air?

air consumption when scuba diving

Air consumption is a big deal for divers. It’s not just for the sake of more bottom time and a longer dive anymore, but it’s become a means of competition and bragging rights. Many believe that, the more air you surface with in your scuba tanks, the better divers they are. But just how far [...]