These top five pieces of dive safety equipment can help make your dives more comfortable, stress-free and, potentially, save the day.
Marcus Knight
If you’re diving in a tidal region, you must take some time to plan your dive with a little more care.
It’s every diver’s worst nightmare: you surface to find that the dive boat has left you behind. What should you do?
Although modern regulators are painstakingly designed to offer great reliability, sometimes things go wrong. What should you do if your regulator free-flows at depth?
The PADI Advanced Open Water course has always been the logical next step after completing your PADI Open Water Diver course. Recently revised, it now has even more to offer
Familiar sites or those with distinctive landmarks offer the opportunity to improve your skills at natural navigation underwater.
Of all our equipment, we often overlook our scuba cylinders the most. But when scuba cylinders have problems, there are often disastrous consequences.
Achieving proper weighting when diving is one of the key aspects of being a proficient and capable scuba diver.
Many divers stop learning about underwater navigation after their first open-water course. But using a compass underwater properly is a vital skill.
Although it’s easy to follow the guide on nearly every dive, it’s important to practice underwater navigation techniques.
Drift diving can be exhilarating. But if there is a strong current, you must keep these factors in mind to dive safely.
With over 20,000 species of fish, it can be hard to know what you’re seeing underwater. Here’s the second of a two-part series on basic fish ID for 10 different common marine-life families.
With over 20,000 different species of fish it can be hard to know what you’re looking at when you dive. Here’s the first of a two-part series on basic fish ID for 10 different families of commonly seen aquatic life.
The PADI Advanced Open Water course offers a choice of three different adventure dives to complete your course. Which should you choose?
As land mammals, we must short-circuit physiology when we scuba dive. Equalizing as we descend helps adapt our bodies to our temporary environment. Here’s why and how.
It’s exciting to see a manta ray or whale shark underwater. Here’s the best way to keep your cool during your next pelagic encounter.
Passing your Open Water course is not the end of learning how to fin well — it’s the beginning. The best divers know how to frog kick, helicopter turn and reverse fin. Here’s why and how to apply these scuba finning techniques.
Knowing how to recognize and address a potential case of stress, anxiety or panic when scuba diving is a key tool in an experienced diver’s skill set.