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As we’ve seen in previous posts like Emergency Signaling Devices: Get Noticed in the Water and Must-Have Scuba Diving Safety Gear, Surface Marker Buoys or SMB’s are one of the essentials in Scuba safety gear. With the increasing number of stories of divers getting left behind by dive boats and surface accidents, we recommend that [...]
As your primary way of breathing underwater and essentially your lifeline, Scuba regulators are one of the most important pieces of equipment used in scuba diving. So what do you do if it happens to fail on you? That’s where an octopus or spare regulator as it is also known comes in. As your single [...]
PART II (If you missed Part I- Click Here) Getting separated from your dive boat or lost at sea is probably a diver’s worst nightmare. Divers can surface far away from their dive boats, get lost in underwater navigation or simply get swept away by strong currents. Spotting the head of a diver bobbing on [...]
Getting separated from your dive boat or lost at sea is probably a diver’s worst nightmare. Divers can surface far away from their dive boats, get lost in underwater navigation or simply get swept away by strong currents. Spotting the head of a diver bobbing on the surface against the waves is a difficult thing [...]
Bailout bottles are a subject that Scuba divers have rather strong opinions about, and constantly debate the benefits of a bailout bottle over a pony tank and vice-versa. Bailout bottles provide a diver a redundant air supply that will enable an emergency ascent from a depth in case of a problem or shortage of air [...]
In our earlier article -5 Rules to Better Diving, we discussed how when it comes to Scuba diving safety, it’s best to dive like you’re diving alone. No, that doesn’t mean ditch your dive buddy, but as far as your safety is concerned, pretend he’s not there or… won’t be when you need him. In [...]
