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Oceanic Dive Computers Now and the Future

Oceanic also now known as American Underwater Products (AUP) covers a range of brands including Aeris, Hollis & Oceanic. Every year Oceanic UK hosts a seminar to showcase the new and up coming products that will be available to the UK Market. The seminar covers all products lines and categories from masks to rebreathers. This [...]
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Sport Diver Awards 2012

Simply Scuba needs your help again. Sport Diver has opened up the voting for their 2012 awards covering a range of categories from Best Manufacturer to Best Dive-related Website. We fall into the Best Retailer and Best Dive-related Website categories so if you think we should win in either or even both of these categories [...]
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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 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 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

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

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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Frozen Planet

We are now coming up to half way through the BBC’s latest nature programme – Frozen Planet. If you haven’t been watching this programme you should really check it out (Wednesday evenings at 9pm). There has been some of the most amazing footage I’ve ever seen of nature both under and over the water. Of the [...]
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Cold Water Diving

As winter starts to set in and the temperature drops there is more that we need to bear in mind before each dive. I certainly don’t want to put anyone off but diving in cold water creates a new set of challenges that need to be prepared for before actually going diving. Every piece of equipment [...]
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Don’t wear your mask on your forehead

Am I being over sensitive? Maybe getting older and or grumpier? Why is it now positively fashionable to wear your mask on your forehead? As a diver and instructor with thousands of dives under my belt, I feel comfortable in the water. I don’t take my mask off whilst in the water, I need it to [...]
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