ScubaBrucie

You need pockets if you are not doing it wrong. There is nowhere else to store stuff if you are using a BP/W. There is a system as to what goes in each pocket which you will find on DIR websites. The pockets should have bellows held down with velcro with eyelets at the top. [...]

As we all know from our PADI Open Water training you lose a lot of heat from your head. On a warm water dive you don’t initially notice this but if you do long dives or repetitive dives you can really begin to feel the chill. A traditional dive hood is an awkward and restrictive [...]

 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 [...]

Every qualification in life is valued on how difficult it is to get. By the time a doctor actually practices they have eight to ten years of training, so they can command a high remuneration. By contrast you can become a diving instructor from zero in less than two months of training time. So it [...]

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 [...]

The octopus system used by PADI actually came from Florida cave diving where Sheck Exley had a second DV outlet machined into his first stage. Florida cave diving has moved on and the standard now is the Hogarthian rig developed by Bill Main. This, like the octopus before it, has found its way into a [...]

The basic problem is that there is a lot of small stuff I want to look at underwater but there is no way to magnify properly. Due to the laws of physics a conventional magnifying glass loses two thirds of it’s power underwater. Quite simply it is the difference in refractive index between the lens [...]

Throughout your diving career you have to prove how many dives you have done, and often how many of a certain type. How many cave, how many past 30 metres, how many on twins etc. Also every time you go to a new dive school, resort, diveboat or club they need to see your logbook [...]

Then why does Egypt ban dive gloves? Oh and shark fishing? Because a huge amount of their income comes from visiting divers and they don’t want the asset that divers come to see ruined. Obviously some are  perfect divers and never touch the living reef. However in my experience gloved divers do touch the reef, sometimes [...]

There is a new, long haul, budget airline, Oasis, running from Gatwick to Hong Kong. Here is the BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi…ic/6082816.stm And here is their website: http://fly.oasishongkong.com/booking/search.aspx From Hong Kong you can use the budget airline Cebu Pacific to get to several destinations in the Philippines. Here is their website: http://www.cebupacificair.com/ Or to Singapore with [...]