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  • Time To Dust Off Your Kit

    Time To Dust Off Your Kit

    So…its a new year, your kit has been snuggled up warm and dry somewhere safe for the winter and the season is just around the corner. NOW is the time to dig it out from storage, cover the front room floor with kit and give it a good going over. I’ve covered pre-season checks before in [...]

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  • Oceanic Mandatory Replacement – QLR3 Weight Pockets

    Oceanic Mandatory Replacement – QLR3 Weight Pockets

    Oceanic has announced a mandatory replacement of all affected BCDs that use the QLR3 weight pocket system. The affected BCDs include the Excursion 2, Probe HLC and Ocean Pro 1000D (not sold in the UK). Following isolated reports of the weight pockets unexpectedly releasing Oceanic engineers have identified that a limited number of QLR3 weight pockets [...]

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  • Top Sellers Of 2011

    Top Sellers Of 2011

    Top 10 sellers for 2011. Based on units sold below are our top sellers for this year. Clearly in some categories certain brands dominate, Suunto in dive computers and Scubapro in regulators. We found it interesting when reviewing these results that some that made the top 10 were not from the brands you would [...]

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  • A New Legend is Born

    A New Legend is Born

    After much hype and secrecy at Aqua Lung the new Legend range of regulators are now available. The Legend comes in three different flavours, the standard Legend, the Legend LX and the Legend LUX – all of which are of the ‘Supreme’ specification. Aqua Lung Supreme regulators are specially adjusted for extreme cold and are [...]

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  • Getting Into the wonderful world of Underwater Photography

    Getting Into the wonderful world of Underwater Photography

    Taking beautiful underwater photographs has never been easier.  All you need is one of the many point and shoot cameras that are so easily available, put on a snorkel, a pair of fins and off you go!  You don’t even need to be a diver to get into this addictive hobby and I promise you [...]

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  • The Trouble With Artificial Reefs

    The Trouble With Artificial Reefs

    Artificial reefs, created by deliberately sunk ships and other structures, may not be all that they’re cracked up to be, according to two American academics. One, Prof William Lindberg, who specialises in fisheries science at the University of Florida, has said that artificial reefs may actually hinder rather than improve levels of marine life in the [...]

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  • Koh Tao Nian Rhapsody

    Koh Tao Nian Rhapsody

    I’ve seen some great reinventions of Queens Bohemian Rhapody over the years but until today I’d never seen a diving version. From a group of Dive instructors from Koh Tao in Thailand comes the Koh Tao Nian Rhapsody. Check it out below for  a bit of fun.

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  • Why Corals Die From Stress In Warmer Oceans

    Why Corals Die From Stress In Warmer Oceans

    Australian scientists have thrown new light on the mechanism behind the mass death of corals worldwide as the Earth’s climate warms. Without doubt, one of the most devastating events affecting coral reefs around the planet is coral bleaching. This is triggered by rising water temperatures – when the corals and their symbiotic algae become heat-stressed, the [...]

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