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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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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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Whaling, A Scuba Divers View

I don’t think I ever meet a scuba diver who did not hold the aquatic world and its animals in a state of awe and respect. As a new diver I recall the amazement of Sgt Major fish tugging on the hairs on my leg whilst exiting the water in the Cayman Islands. For some [...]
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How I Started Scuba Diving

After discussing this in the office at some length I (Gerrard Dennis – CEO of Simply Scuba) discovered I am the only person who did not intend to be a scuba diver. All my other colleagues, some like me now instructors, planned their hobby to become their job. I neither planned for it to become [...]
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5 “Must Dive” UK Islands

The UK coast is littered with islands, here are 5 of the best scuba diving island locations. 1. Scilly Isles The Scilly’s comprise of several Islands with the main one being St Marys. Located off the west of Cornwall the Islands were often the last sight of England merchants vessels saw on their journeys to the Americas. [...]
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Old New York City Subway Cars Become Artificial Reefs

New York Times transit reporter Michael Gynbaum has created a beautiful series of photo’s showing retired New York City subway cars being dropped into the ocean to create artificial reefs. This course of action was decided on over 10 years ago by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to help the environment and [...]
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Breathing Liquid rather than Air?

I’m not sure if I missed something but I like to think I’m reasonably clued up on diving matters. Whilst recently reading a book, it made the claim that the scene in “The Abyss” where the divers breathe liquid “air” was in fact based on real technology?! The film was released in 1989 and was [...]
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Brunei wreck spots draw divers

For diving enthusiasts in search of challenging sites to explore, Brunei may offer just the opportunity. The country’s shipwreck diving spots are becomingly increasingly popular among scuba adventure seekers worldwide. Some of the wrecks date back to the Second World War and have quite a bit of history behind them. Labuan is one of the favourite spot for [...]
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Divers reveal pristine wreck in the Baltic

A Finnish wreck-diving team has announced results of a six-year project to document the wonderfully preserved remains of an 18th-century shipwreck off Helsinki, in the Baltic Sea’s Gulf of Finland. The Badewanne team, made up of amateur technical divers, has been researching and surveying wrecks in the Gulf of Finland for the past 15 years. It [...]
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