Whether you’re looking to earn your certification, or are an experienced diver looking for a new adventure, knowing the best scuba diving destinations is a must. Ideal conditions, exciting sights, and overall accessibility are the traits that describe the best diving spots. All across the globe there are underwater locations that offer the best scuba [...]
Every year there are numerous surveys taken by scuba divers as a way to get an overall ranking of dive locations and conditions. These surveys can be regarding wreck diving, visibility of the waters, getting value for your dollar, locations for advanced divers and many more. These results are from real divers who travel the [...]
Dive computers come in a variety of styles, sizes and price ranges. There is something for everybody, whether you are a beginner or a seasoned diver. The choice will be a tough one will dot-matrix displays, longer battery life and digital compasses just to name a few.
With a quick glance, all Aeris computers show [...]
Scuba diving computer are available in a range of prices and features. From the inexpensive and basic to the pricey and packed, there are various screen sized, colored bar graphs, longer battery life and more memory. There are digital compasses, hoseless air-integration and found on almost every model is the Deep Stop feature.
The Sherwood Wisdom [...]
You might have heard the name Vanuatu if you are a fan of the TV show Survivor. The ninth season in 2004 was filmed there.
Vanuatu is in the South Pacific west of Fiji and about 1,700 kilometers east of Northern Australia. Although English is the main language, it was a French colony. Here is the [...]
A senior editor at Golf Digest, Scott Smith say “golfer’s misery has become a big business.” Around one billion golf balls are produced annually with about 100 million of them being recovered by golf-ball divers and re-sold. The retrieval and recycling of golf balls has become a multimillion-dollar industry over the past few decades. [...]
Iceland defines the word “extreme.” Iceland’s largest and most popular glacial lake, Jokulsarlon, is at the end of a glacier near the National Park. Here you will find hot springs and geothermal lagoons as well as frigid glacial lakes. In all directions you can see views of snow-capped peaks that will take your [...]
Here are some tips and info that will interest every scuba diver.
1. We all know how hard it is to get wet dive gloves back on you hands, but one thing you can try is to wear a pair of silicone plastic gloves under your diving gloves. Your diving gloves will slip on in [...]
Wetsuits are worn for the warmth they offer as well as protection from coral, is case you get to close. They are generally made of neoprene and usually open cell neoprene. Some have coatings added as this make it easier to put them on and take them off.
A free diver could wear a 5mm thick [...]
Academic online training, lessons and certification for scuba diving are offered on popular websites in the U.S. One based in Orlando offers SDI (Scuba Diving International) a program focusing on the academic part of diving. By using animated pictures, diagrams and motion pictures, the key concepts of diving are graphically illustrated in this program. [...]