If you are wearing glasses or lenses and are worried about whether you can scuba dive – you absolutely can! You can opt for wearing your contacts under your mask underwater, or go for a prescription diving mask. In any case, you can definitely experience scuba diving as a hobby or even a profession if … Read more
As a certified diving instructor, I get this question at least once a month – “Can I dive with a beard and a mustache?”. The short answer is – yes, you can. Your beard, and especially your mustache, will make it harder to seal your mask properly. Don’t worry, there are a couple of different … Read more
Different training agencies have different age limits and scuba programs for children. During the nineties, there was a certain market pressure to promote diving as a family activity, instead of an individual sport, and diving was also perceived as an exciting way to educate children about subjects like physics and the marine environment. In 1999, … Read more
If you yelled “shark” on a crowded beach, you may cause a stampede of people rushing to leave the water. Yell the same word on a dive boat and everyone will look for their cameras. If you were to look at diving fatalities, you will see all sorts of reasons from poor diver health and … Read more
Short answer? Yes! The long answer is that an object’s ability to stay afloat is referred to as buoyancy. Buoyancy has three states. Positive, when something refuses to sink and floats on the surface, such as a wooden log. Negative, when something drops in the water and immediately sinks down to the bottom like lead. … Read more
Burning calories during physical activity is unavoidable, but the goal in diving should never be to burn calories and turn it into a workout. When you are 33 feet below sea level, you are breathing air at twice the atmospheric pressure and that means that in each breath, you will be taking in twice the … Read more
SDI’s Open Water courses suggested duration is twenty training hours. This duration is a suggestion only. In real life, the answer would depend on a number of things, three of which are the student, the instructor, and the location in which training is conducted. Unlike military and commercial divers, who are chosen for fitness and … Read more
In the early days of diving, divers used UBA (underwater breathing apparatus) in which air was pumped via a long hose, from the surface, down to the diver at depth. The deeper the diver went, the faster and harder the surface crew worked to deliver the air. Divers would walk the bottom and the length … Read more
Yes, you can go for a scuba dive without formal training or certification, but the real question is, can you return from such a dive? It is very unlikely that a person who is thrown into the water for the very first time in full scuba gear, without any training, will be able to do … Read more
I hate shopping for things that need measurements. Waistline, over the shoulder, weight, height – this is terrifying. For this article, I decided to finally get over it and help you answer the question “What size BCD do I Need?”. I spent half a day researching the different measurements needed to choose a BCD. Unfortunately, … Read more