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- How to Prepare for Your First SCUBA DiveYou've got your Scuba certification, you've got your Scuba gear, and now you're itching to go on your first Scuba dive. And sure, the certification process reviewed all the basics, but there are still other practicalities that an informed diver shoul...
- 3 Factors Ruining Your Scuba Educationon Oct 24, 2014 in dive centres dive instructors dive lessons dive shops dive students scuba lessons scuba students studentsI've seen a lot of good students with bad instructors and I've seen a lot of good instructors with bad students. This has as much to do with the mindsets and motivations of the individuals involved as it has to do with their actual abilities. I find...
- 6 Steps to a Controlled Descent - Make Descents Enjoyable, Not StressfulThe Goal:Use your lungs and your buoyancy compensator (BCD) to keep yourself neutrally buoyant (or close to neutrally buoyant) during the entire descent. Keep in mind that:• A diver should be able to control his buoyancy well enough to stop at any...
- Scuba Diving Is A Wonderful Sport: Just Eliminate The RisksAdventure channels and tourism channels show glorious breathtaking visuals of blue skies and crystal clear water and people scuba diving among the fishes. The question that arises is whether we are safe, amongst a vast variety of underwater life, som...
- Can I Dive With.......on Aug 22, 2014Reprinted from Scuba Diving:::::Dive doctors and operators have long lowered their own risk by limiting yours when certain medical conditions enter the picture. Asthma? Sorry, no dice … or dives. Ditto for diabetes, heart disease and other conditio...
- Ask an Expert: Should Divers Reveal Their Medications?on Aug 16, 2014 in diving drugs drugs and diving kirkscubagear Larry Lozuk medications medications and diving scubaIs the average dive professional really qualified to safeguard — never mind interpret — your personal medical history?By Larry LozukSeveral years ago while managing an IT project at a large health-care provider, I witnessed my team lead being a p...
- Volunteering in film re-enacting fatal shark attack a solemn memory of Shark Week for BadDiverBillBadDiversTV is behind Bill Hill now but his love for scuba remains and two new passions -- music and promoting causes -- have been added.When a funding deal fell through for BadDiverBill’s Quest, which was to find the most interesting DIVE sites, D...
- Wood off Shipwreckson Jul 20, 2014 in diving on shipwrecks Dr Lee Spence Georgina. diving shipwrecks shipwrecks wooden boatsReprinted with permission from Dr Lee SpenceWOOD OFF SHIPWRECKS: People are always asking me whether wood survives on shipwrecks. The answer that I always give them is "it depends" (meaning there is no easy answer). Preservation of wood depends on a...
- Too Old To Learn Scuba Diving?on Jul 10, 2014 in dive lessons diving learning to dive Open Water Dive scuba scuba lessons too old to diveReprinted from Enzine ArticlesWe are always told we should learn sports when we are young, when our bodies are more resilient to the bruises and bumps which can be afflicted on us when we learn a new sport. This is true to a certain extent.Take for e...
- Oak Island Money Pit :: The Last Great Unsolved MysteryRevealing the MysteryIf someone were to claim they knew a story that involved the Holy Grail, a band of pirates, William Shakespeare, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Edgar Allan Poe, you might think the tale was a riddle or a fanciful movie script. How...
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