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• How to Prepare for Your First SCUBA Dive
  on Feb 4, 2015 in dive lessons first scuba first time diving scuba diving scuba lessons
  You'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 Education
  on Oct 24, 2014 in dive centres dive instructors dive lessons dive shops dive students scuba lessons scuba students students
  I'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 Stressful
  on Sep 23, 2014 in BCD controlled descents in diving cotrolled descent. Dive Buddy Dive fins diving negative buoyancy positive buoyancy scuba
  The 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 Risks
  on Sep 4, 2014 in dive within your limits diving extreme sports human errors when diving kirkscubagear scuba diving Scuba Scoop sharks
  Adventure 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, 2014
  Reprinted 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 scuba
  Is 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 BadDiverBill
  on Aug 10, 2014 in actors BadDiverBill great white sharks Honduras Little Rose ocean Pequena Rosa safety divers Shark Week The Ocean Conservancy video Weightless
  BadDiversTV 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 Shipwrecks
  on Jul 20, 2014 in diving on shipwrecks Dr Lee Spence Georgina. diving shipwrecks shipwrecks wooden boats
  Reprinted 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 dive
  Reprinted 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 Mystery
  on Jul 2, 2014 in buried treasure Nova Scotia Oak Island Money Pit shipwrecks sunken treasures
  Revealing 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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