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Emergency Air Sources: Pony Bottles

October 20, 2010

Imagine you are in the middle of a dive 30m below and being so engrossed in the surroundings, you have neglected to frequently check your air. You finally glance at your air pressure gauge and realize you have run out of air. Your buddy is nearby with his back turned to you busy lining up [...]

SCUBA Gear: October Octopuses- Best Rated Spare Regulators

October 5, 2010

As your single most important piece of scuba safety gear, a spare regulator/ octopus can come to your aid or your buddy’s aid as a back up source of air supply underwater. In past posts we’ve seen What To Look For In A Spare Regulator (Octopus), now we’ve compiled a list of the Top 5 [...]

The Big Buoys Of Diving: SMB’s and Diving Buoys

June 12, 2010

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 [...]

Brushing Up Your Scuba Skills: How To Deploy A Surface Marker Buoy (SMB)

June 2, 2010

One of the best emergency signaling devices that can be carried by divers ad we recommend that every diver carry this, is the Inflatable signaling tube also known as s Safety sausage or a Surface Marker Buoy (SMB). With the increasing number of high-profile reports of lost divers and serious surface accidents involving boats, the [...]

What To Look For In A Spare Regulator (Octopus)

May 23, 2010

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 [...]

Underwater Signaling Devices

April 5, 2010

Scenario 1: You’re on your dive when you spot the most amazing Manta ray gliding by in the distance, you turn to see if your buddy is paying attention and sure enough he’s looking in another direction. Scenario 2: You are running low on tank air, and need to surface, you signal your buddy that [...]

Emergency Signaling Devices II: Get noticed in the water

March 24, 2010

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 [...]

Emergency Signaling Devices I: Get noticed in the water

March 24, 2010

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 [...]