diving Archive

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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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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Fitting Hose Protectors

One of the most common questions divers buying their first set of diving equipment ask is “how do I fit hose protectors?”. If they have already had a try then usually there are a few unpublishable words thrown into that question! Brute force and sore hands are usually the first method but here are a [...]
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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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The Weirder Side of Scuba Records

We regularly hear of new scuba and apnea diving record attempts but its well known that the Guinness World Records holds more than its fair share of wackier records like the ‘Loudest Purr by a Cat’. So what other diving related records are in there? Well here’s some for you: Fastest 100m hurdles wearing swim fins The female [...]
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The Importance of Self Sufficiency

I must have had a bit of a psychic moment when I sat down and wrote the blog about Solo Diving back in June as a few days later my pre-release copy of the August edition of DIVER landed on my desk with a four page article about the new PADI Self Sufficient Diver course. Its [...]
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Wreck Penetration

Wreck diving has to be one of the best types of diving. Each wreck is unique, it’s history always interesting and normally a haven for marine life. It has without doubt got a lot going for it. I will venture to say that wreck diving in good visibility is much more enjoyable, at least for [...]
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New Mask Preparation

We are often asked about how to prepare a new mask to help prevent it from fogging up during your dive. There are a number of techniques from the traditional tried and tested (the method we’ll run through here) to the insane (flaming the mask lenses). It is also only half of the job, proper [...]
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Solo Diving

It’s drummed into us at every stage (for good reason) that we should always dive with a buddy. It makes perfect sense! You both have someone you can rely on in an emergency where you might need their air supply, become entangled or just need someone to stop you finning off with the mermaids if [...]
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Should Dive Computers be Mandatory?

An email landed in my inbox yesterday from a diving manufacturer about school dive computers and how training agencies are contemplating making dive computers a mandatory piece of equipment. It’s an interesting question. Should they become mandatory? I have debated this very question with a few instructors before and there are very good arguments for and [...]
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