ScubaBrucie

Nemo 33, for those that don’t know, is a unique divesite in Brussels, Belgium. Think of it as an overgrown swimming pool, or as an inland divesite that has been roofed over. The name comes from it being 33 metres (over 100 feet) deep and from the water temperature being kept at 33C. Their website [...]

SCUBA diving is not a competetive sport, yeet some people cannot control their natural competetive spirit. This often manifests itself in going deep. How many times have I heard people boasting about this? Yet depth is extremely dangerous. Just look at the accident reports. Narcosis is worse, air consumption shoots up, you encounter decompression problems [...]

 In this I am not being condescending nor am I trying to teach my grandmother how to suck eggs however on Bonaire recently I noticed a lot of people shore diving the hard way and this article is for them. Basically what they were doing was surface swimming out to the divesite marker buoy before descending [...]

 Having been to Bonaire at exactly the same time last year we knew what to expect. One difference is that I had a small target in sight starting the holiday on 931 dives, so I needed 69 dives in 19 days to get to 1,000, an average of just over 3.6 per day.  Supposedly Brazilian [...]

I just about always do a night dive if there is one going and have had some fantastic dives. Especially the house reef at Tasik Ria in Manado which comes alive with an amazing biodiversity. In Bonaire there are no sharks because they are all caught by the local fishermen (all part of being a [...]

It was October 1997 on the East coast of Scotland and the gales had set in. Eventually our instructor (John G Parkin #601338) found a way of getting us wet with a shore dive in a sheltered bay on the north side of St Abbs Head. We kitted up in the carpark, drysuits obviously, and [...]

Half Mile Down: William Beebe The Terrible Hours: Peter Maas Seven Miles Down: Jacques Piccard and Robert S Dietz To Hidden Depths: Captain Philippe Tailliez The Frogmen: T.J.Waldren and James Gleeson Combat Frogmen: Michael Welham Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: Gary Kinder Homo Delphinus; Jacques Mayol Danger Is My Business: John D [...]

I have had loads of fun in downcurrents. As long as you are correctly weighted (rare among divers) and have enough lift they are just a part of the normal skillset. The first time I encountered really significant downcurrents was in the Red Sea at the Brothers. Here the game was given away by all [...]

This is a course that anyone can do, even if you just did your open water last week. However I went into it with a bit of experience and was lucky in that my buddy, Florian, had not dissimilar experience. This parity is probably a good thing on this course. So my experience: PADI instructor, [...]