Two of the world’s top Scuba instructors team up to produce a dynamic new video guide to Sidemount Diving.
Dive pros Jill Heinerth and Jeff Loflin lead you through the fundamentals of sidemount diving. Equipment selection, gear setup, techniques and skills are covered in this comprehensive video guide. From beginner to professional -…
PADI Underwater Naturalist Course
Learn about the world below with PADI’s Underwater Naturalist course. This course is an introduction to the underwater aquatic environment, and will help you develop safe and responsible aquatic life interaction techniques. This…
How to Use A BCD | Scuba Diving
The buoyancy compensation devices (BCD), are the devices that give a scuba diver control with their buoyancy during a scuba dive. Basically the BCD allows the diver to inflate or deflate the device…
Descending & Scuba Diving
There are many reasons for learning to descend properly. 1- Descending fast can to lead to the risk of squeezing out air spaces in our ears. We need to descend slower to allow…
Why YOU Should Go Tech
Why do you do technical diving? By Andrew Cavell – Yorkshire Rec + Tec I have often been asked by divers, “why do you do technical diving?” The response I give them is…
Technical Diver Training Blog (community.scubadiverlife.com)
One of our moderators will be taking their Technical Diving Course (PADI DSAT Tec 40 or TDI Advanced Nitrox) for the next few weeks. We will have blog post updates after each day…
Short Feature: Choosing a Good Dive Partner
Diving is a sport that involves a great deal of responsibility and the ability to have complete control over your mind and body. It also entertains a certain level of consciousness, as it…
What a Certification Should Mean to You!
What a certification should mean to you! There are many views on diving certifications; I don’t want to get into a controversial discussion about which agencies do what right or wrong. I would…
The Top 10 Questions You Need To Ask Before Diving
In the last article I wrote for Scuba Diver Life, entitled Scuba Diving and Travel: How Not to Vacation, a recently certified diver asked me, “When I go to dive with a new…
Nemo 33 | Scuba Dive in the Worlds Largest Pool
Have you heard about Nemo 33? Not many have! So what is Nemo 33? Well, it’s the largest and deepest swimming pool in the world. Located in Brussels, Belgium- the pool was created by…




























