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Finding a Good Scuba Diving Resort

Finding a great scuba diving resort is essential when seeking a diving break away from the cold and unpredictability of your own country. Your reasons for taking a break may be to learn to dive, to take the next step up with a higher scuba qualification or to simply enjoy some new sites with fantastic [...]

Discount Scuba Diving Equipment

There is no question about it – scuba diving is an expensive sport. However, it is possible to achieve great savings with top quality diving gear simply by shopping around before you buy. It must be emphasized however, buying discount scuba diving equipment is not the same as buying cheap diving gear!

With the Internet available [...]

A Look at Mares Scuba Gear

For almost 60 years Mares has been recognized as an international manufacturer of high quality scuba diving gear. Mares scuba gear is sold everywhere in the world where diving takes place, and is as popular in the UK, USA, Australia and Japan as it is in France from where the company originates.

Mares scuba gear includes [...]

Scuba Diving Package Holidays

A scuba diving package holiday is an excellent way to get a few dives into your log book and increase your scuba diving experience significantly. During your first year or two diving it is sometimes hard to get on club trips and excursions. You build up your experience slowly, a couple of weekends away in the summer [...]

Cheap Dive Gear

Everybody is looking for a bargain these days – including cheap dive gear. One word of warning though when it comes to scuba diving equipment. Scuba diving takes place under the water, whether it be in the sea or in fresh water scuba dive sites. It is therefore taking place in an alien environment. It [...]

Scuba Dive Sites

There are a huge number of scuba dive sites for the scuba enthusiast to consider. You only have to read the scuba diving magazines every month for reviews of great dive sites all around the globe. They are often accompanied by photographs of the surrounding surface topography, underwater pictures and information about the water conditions [...]

Scuba Diving in the Red Sea

The words scuba diving red sea always bring back memories of the three trips I have made so far to the Red Sea to scuba dive from a live-aboard boat. Twice I have been on a Regal Dive excursion out of Marsa Alam and once with Tony Blackhurst Scuba Adventures on a scuba diving boat out [...]

Scuba Diving at Scapa Flow

One of the places that everyone is advised to visit at least once in their diving career is Scapa Flow. Scapa Flow is a sheltered area of water within the Orkney Islands just off the North coast of Scotland. It was here that the First World War captured German naval fleet was scuttled at the [...]

Streamline your scuba diving gear

Consider this: I was getting around forty miles to the gallon in my car before I added some roof rails to it. Now I get around thirty five miles to the gallon! Having the extra wind resistance is very costly in the extra fuel I need for my vehicle.

It is the same with scuba diving. [...]

Scuba Diving and Buoyancy

One of the main physical concepts that needs to be fully understood during early scuba diving training is that of buoyancy. Buoyancy theory is encapsulated in Archimedes Principle which states that when a body is immersed in a liquid it experiences a force acting upwards on it that is equal to the weight of the [...]